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Thoughts of a Cynical Investor

Why PAP doesn’t do accountability, meritocracy - Meritocracy and accountability are two sides of the same coin as the US navy has recently shown (PM, this is accountability).(Btw, a long time ago, the Bri...
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The Online Citizen

Before the reservation: The internal contradictions of Singapore’s elected presidency - by Vernon Chan Lee Hsien Loong's People's Action Party (PAP) government began in 2016 its radical reforms to the elected presidency, a rush job of the high...
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Support site for the unemployed

52-year-old PMET jobless for a month and feeling worried about providing for family - Hi Gilbert I chanced upon your webpage while looking for employment. Needless to explain, I have been out of job for about a month plus. I am 52 years old ...
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npTribune

Confessions of an Anorexic - Charlene Ser shares her struggle and fight against anorexia. The post Confessions of an Anorexic appeared first on The UrbanWire.
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My Singapore News

The Dark Age of China 1830s - 1905, China Lost Territories , Self-Respect and Dignity - In the years from 1830s to Mid 1940s China and the Chinese people suffered the worst outrage, insult and humiliation at the hands of Western imperialism an...
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Singapore Entrepreneurs

Q&A: Veteran VC Ron Cao on why he thinks China’s market is ‘just getting started’ - After almost two decades of being a VC, this is why Ron Cao is more bullish on China than ever.
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Yawning Bread Sampler 2

From the wreckage of a presidential ‘election’, racism rises like a disturbed ghost - Now that the People’s Action Party government has installed Halimah Yacob as the so-called president of Singapore, racism has gained a legitimacy we once t...
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Seelan Palay's Blog

32 Years: The Interrogation of a Mirror - My next artwork will be performed on October 1st at Speakers Corner, Singapore. Here's the Facebook event page.
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the kent ridge common

Looking into the lives of an inter-racial couple in Singapore - Like many other inter-racial couples, the parental hurdle was one that Ms Sandy Cheng Sheng Di and Mr Muhd Fitri Bin Khamis had to cross – and a challengin...
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Salary.sg - Your Salary in Singapore

Why majority of the trader fails to make profit - Why can’t the trader’s profit from the Forex market? Why do they find it difficult? There are many reasons for not being able to profit from the Forex ma...
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Senang Diri

Exercise Wallaby 2017 XWB training incident: Sad homecoming - One of our own prepares to come home from Exercise Wallaby 2017. 😢 Homebound. We wish the crew and passengers aboard 752 a safe journey home. The inci...
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Ravi Philemon

Halimah Yacob, Elected Presidency, and the people's desire for checks and balances - Here are my thoughts on Halimah Yacob, Elected Presidency, and the people's desire for checks and balances. I don't doubt that she is her own, independent ...
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mrbrown: L'infantile terrible of Singapore

The Big Question: iPhone 8 and 8 Plus, or iPhone X? - I am in San Jose at the moment, recovering from a mad day of covering the 12th September 2017 Apple keynote at Apple's HQ, Apple Park. And since I am still...
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My sketchbook

Last thought on the Presidential election. - Subscribe to My sketchbook
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Veritas

Singapore Airlines Group now bigger than Cathay Pacific in terms of passenger-km - On June 2017, Singapore Airlines Group (including Scoot and Silkair) has higher passenger-km than Cathay Pacific Group (including Dragon air) for the first...
2 months ago
Yours Truly Singapore

Hypocritical anti-colonialism - I refer to the 1 Jun 2017 Straits Times letter “Colonial era an important part of Singapore’s story” by Mr Gabriel Cheng Kian Tiong. Hypocritical anti-colo...
2 months ago
Reinventing the Rice Bowl

The Lee Family’s Path to Exile - I find myself deeply saddened by the recent statement put out by Hsien Yang and Wei Ling posted in the Straits Times and which has been covered by nearly e...
3 months ago
Singapore Recalcitrant

The conundrum of the Elected Presidency - Singaporeans are so inured to the sophistry of the PAP demagogues that they now take it in their stride for its face value.When the whole of Singapore had ...
5 months ago
Hard Hitting in the Lion City

Comics this week - Deadly Class #27- Don't fix what's not broken, and writer Rick Remender followed that formula this issue as he crafted a good-old-fashioned-revenge story a...
5 months ago
TR EMERITUS

What to do if the husband on a dating site is yours - According to unemotional statistical data, singlehood is the scourge of Singapore population. The percentage of single men and women in 2000 was 51,7%, in ...
6 months ago
geraldgiam.sg

Whither democracy? - At WP Youth Wing’s Youth Hangouts yesterday, we discussed the topic of democracy. We had a very encouraging turnout from mostly polytechnic and university ...
7 months ago
Rachel Zeng's blog

Interview with a Security Guard - In 2010, a Singaporean taxi driver, Cai Mingjie, published his bestselling work memoir Diary of a taxi driver : true stories from Singapore’s most educated...
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Sgpolitics.net

China flips Trump the bird - Outside a shopping mall in Taiyuan, north China’s Shanxi province, a giant sculpture of a chicken that looks like US president-elect Donald Trump has been ...
8 months ago
Kaffein-nated

Joseph Schooling - my heartiest congratulations to you! - Joseph Schooling, you did Singapore and your parents proud. Finally an Olympic gold medal! Now readers, read this (link) ... again. And go figure where mos...
1 year ago
The Heart Truths

Singaporeans Pay High Rates for Health Insurance, but Get Back Low Returns; Other Countries Pay Low Rates, Get High Returns - This is the third part of a series of articles that I have written on healthcare financing over the past one month, which compares how much Singaporeans ar...
1 year ago
Professional Ground DECODER » Doubtful? The Lion City IR & Casinos

Why Genting Singapore Casino Performes Badly - The above news report exactly highlights the following big weaknesses of Genting Singapore Casino: – Very weak in managing the IMA ( internal marketing age...
1 year ago
Getting at the truth

Redacted Pages Of 9/11 Report Show Saudi Involvement - The U.S. 9/11 Report Former Sen. Bob Graham and others are urging the Obama administration to declassify redacted pages of a report that holds 9/11 secre...
1 year ago
catherinelim.sg

The Next PAP Leadership: More Of The Same Or A Whole New Game? - On 22 February 2016, I was one of the participants at an event organised by Singapore Arts Museum, entitled ‘Roundtable@SAM Big Ideas of a Small Nation: Pe...
1 year ago
Temasek Hedge

Secura: kena tackle by bear market - Despite the best efforts of the issuers to create a great marketing story around Secura Group’s IPO (detachable calls to purchase at 35 cents within 3 year...
1 year ago
nofearSingapore

Non-constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) scheme: Changes needed - Dear Friends, Now that the dust has started to settle after the dramatic GE2015, I have some thoughts on how the Non-constituency Member of Parliament (N...
1 year ago
Singapore Social and Political Thoughts

12 September 2015 - A Tsunami for Singapore Opposition - The people had spoken, since almost 70% voted yes to PAP, giving them almost 10% improvement, so be it..... So do not complain ok?
2 years ago
Singapore Notes

We Wuz Robbed - The Singapore version of September 11 is a tragedy comparable to happened at America in 2001. There, jihadists flew jet planes into the North and South to...
2 years ago
Only "objective" and "factual" political films please, we're Singaporeans

2011 - 2015 : A Chronology of Authoritarian Rule in Singapore - *Apr/May 2011 (General Elections):* A year before elections, PM Lee Hsien Loong announced a "24-hour cooling-off" before polling day, stating that no ele...
2 years ago
Hazel Poa

- *CPF Minimum Sum – Making it Meaningful* As had been pointed out before, the issue with CPF is not the increasing CPF Minimum Sum, it is inadequate retirem...
2 years ago
Lee Kuan Yew Watch

Mr Lee Kuan Yew still warded at SGH, closely monitored by doctors - Lee Kuan Yew apparently remains alive, barely. ST: Former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew remains warded in the Intensive Care Unit at the Singapore General H...
2 years ago
SpeakSpokeWriteWrote

Embrace Life - We were having dinner the other day when my dear cousin Doreen made mention of the pain she is having. I smiled and asked her, “Are you talking to me about...
2 years ago
ieatishootipost Blogs Singapore Best Food

Sliced Grouper with Ginger and Spring Onion recipe - Stir fried sliced grouper is one of those classic dishes that you order at the restaurants as well as the Cze Char. It is also one of those dishes that yo...
3 years ago
Tax Justice Network

The new Tax Justice Network website and blog is now live - We have a completely new website! It's in the *same place as before*. Please take a look. From now on our blog will be integrated into the new site. We ...
3 years ago
Chia Ti Lik's Blog

My Grown Up Christmas List - It’s the time of the year when it’s the end of the year. The usual things that occupy me would be squeezing time and space to do an area cleaning of my off...
3 years ago
Siew Kum Hong

An unexpected email 6 years later - I received this email a few days ago from someone I don't know -- let's call her Kit. The letter is self-explanatory. I'm glad that Kit now feels better ab...
4 years ago
Mr Wang Says So

Gilbert Koh's Miscellaneous Poetry Updates - Just for my own records. Before I forget where, when or how my poems pop up. *Little Things: A Poetry Anthology* Ethos Books is coming up with a new antho...
4 years ago
BLUTA-log

Mitigating Interest Rate Risks in Your Properties. - In our earlier blog entry on Who will be Hardest Hit by 3.5% Interest Rate, we identified the homeowners most likely to be affected by the interest rate un...
4 years ago
Diary of A Singaporean Mind

It is the govt that has to be regulated not the online news ... - It is almost a month since my last posting. It is a bit hard to explain why I have not written as much as I did in the past. There are no major changes in ...
4 years ago
Simply Gab

MDA Licensing Outcry – is it an overreaction? - The ‘blogging community’ is up in arms over MDA’s new licensing framework for online news sites. I use air quotes to describe this community as they are ...
4 years ago
Feed Me To The Fish

More Singaporeans Should Be The Ripples That We Are! - Robert F. Kennedy said, “F*ew will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numbe...
4 years ago
New Asia Republic

Network Marketing Ideas That Can Make A Big Difference - [image: 4405616339_69afc96727]Multi level marketing can be a profitable endeavor to undergo if you have the ideal information from the start. If you can ...
5 years ago
groundnotes

What a scoop! - We all try a little too hard sometimes. The Straits Times today (16 March 2012) ran a feature piece entitled “The ‘engage and consult’ route in policy revi...
5 years ago
Military Life: Memoirs of a Conscript in the Lion City

Tio NDP - [Source: http://sporesays.blogspot.com/] How apt.
5 years ago
Jacob 69er

At last, the new normal gives way to the old abnormal - At last, the new normal gives way to the old abnormal – Martyn See Police investigate technology-enabled ISA discussions, James Gomez, 14 Oct 2011 The Sing...
5 years ago
BEYOND SG

Why I know the Singapore economy is coming down - One of the privilege in working in the Monetary Authority of Singapore is you get to see the port activity when you look out the windows. When I was a trai...
5 years ago
SNA Election News

As Singapore Gets Ready to Vote, New Media Amplifies Voice of Opposition - Time.com, 6 May 2011 Singapore is one of the most wired countries on earth. Nearly every resident of the city state carries a mobile phone (some carry two) ...
6 years ago
Alas, a blog! Live life, like you give a damn!

This blog has moved to harishpillay.wordpress.com - Looks like I did not post here that I've moved my blog from livejournal to workdpress. Please see: https://harishpillay.wordpress.com Thanks for continu...
6 years ago
To Fix a Mocking Peasant

Livejournal Spam - Livejournal is an official spam sponge. Argh.
6 years ago
Chee Siok Chin's Blog

Exposing the truth scares the PAP - I managed to finish reading Alan Shadrake’s book the afternoon that it was launched in Singapore on Saturday. The book tells of criminal offenders who have...
7 years ago
Singaporean Skeptic

sigghh...Non-Singaporeans do not get it. - Spoke to someone from China today about opportunities in Singapore. The person was a former PRC and now a PR doctor in the US. I was asked why I didn't wan...
7 years ago
My Thoughts...

One Country's Misfortune is Another's Political Mileage - *There are some quarters in Singapore that would be looking at the unfortunate religious tension in Malaysia as an 'opportunity' instead of the sad socia...
7 years ago
Cavalierio

Reflections on the guillotine - Some compelling words by Albert Camus in his eloquent 'Reflections on the Guillotine'. The original essay is much longer, and worth its every word. I'll l...
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