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Telemarketer trolled by publichouse.sg writer
Life has many annoyances that can sometimes get under your skin. Like telemarketers. They who call you and read off a script, often with this tone of entitlement, as though it is the most natural...
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Slaughtering sacred cows – again?
By Andrew Loh In his National Day message 2012, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced a new committee, headed by Education Minister Heng Swee Keat, to “take a fresh look” at what the Government is...
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Want more babies? Change mindset towards less educated
Still, the birth rate refuses to budge. It is a hard nut to crack. The stork refuses to make a return flight — perhaps until fundamental mindsets within the government changes. An example of an archaic...
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Telemarketer trolled by publichouse.sg writer
Life has many annoyances that can sometimes get under your skin. Like telemarketers. They who call you and read off a script, often with this tone of entitlement, as though it is the most natural...
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"I was born here, but so what?"
By Stacy Ooi Singaporeans in Conversation, or SGin(C) for short, was a dialogue held on the 4th of August with Minister Chan Chun Sing as guest of honour. The attendees were largely Singaporeans...
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TPL's famous bag donated for worthy cause
By Stacy Ooi What do politicians and London Weight Management have in common? AWARE weighs in. The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) will hold its annual gender equality award...
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An opportunity to put politics aside
By Andrew Loh The last two weeks were a patriotic period for Singapore. National Day, as usual, turned the dial a few notches with its glamour parade of song, dance and fireworks. This was preceded a...
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Immigration Bonus idea - selling us out
By Ng Jing Song 3 RSIS academics propose an immigration bonus to get Singaporeans to accept foreigners. A few academics from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) recently proposed...
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Luring back the Singapore stork
By Elaine Ee To increase our birth rate, Singapore needs to be more livable for families. Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew is right. Singapore needs more babies. As he warned in his speech at the Tanjong...
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"I was born here, but so what?"
By Stacy Ooi Singaporeans in Conversation, or SGin(C) for short, was a dialogue held on the 4th of August with Minister Chan Chun Sing as guest of honour. The attendees were largely Singaporeans...
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TPL's famous bag donated for worthy cause
By Stacy Ooi What do politicians and London Weight Management have in common? AWARE weighs in. The Association of Women for Action and Research (AWARE) will hold its annual gender equality award...
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Immigration Bonus idea - selling us out
By Ng Jing Song 3 RSIS academics propose an immigration bonus to get Singaporeans to accept foreigners. A few academics from the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) recently proposed...
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Simply Shimona
With her guitar and exquisite vocals in tow, Shimona Kee has travelled through the local and regional musical landscape for more than a decade. While most might be driven by a sense of ennui to...
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Why Dr Chee matters
By Andrew Loh In Singapore’s political arena, perhaps no one has been so vilified as Dr Chee Soon Juan, at least in the last 20 years. Jailed, fined, bankrupted, called names, accused of being “a...
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Our very own legalised Guantanamo
Editorial The government’s criticism of an American report on human rights in Singapore glosses over the flaws of the ISA. The annual US State Department’s country report on human rights practices in...
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Poverty, prosperity and City Harvest Church
By Ravi Philemon The article in Economist 'Reaping what they sow', in saying that the City Harvest Church's (CHC)case 'worries those who see corruption as a growing problem', has tried to link the CHC...
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Local filmmakers raise awareness about dementia
By Stacy Ooi On the 18th of August, local filmmakers Jeremy Boo and Lee Xian Jie launched Grandmother’s Garden, a compilation of prose, poetry and artwork capturing the stories of those with relatives...
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s377A should not be subject to ministerial assurances
By Ng Jing Song “The principle of access to justice calls for nothing less.” Three judges from the highest court of the land refused to banish a constitutional challenge to s377A. Since that decision,...
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Time for Workers’ Party to decide on s377A
By Andrew Loh “The WP is worse,” says a comment on Yawning Bread. The person was referring to the issue of section 377A of the Penal Code which criminalises gay sex between men. “[At] least the PAP...
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After a Watershed Election: Paradoxes, Perils, Promises
Local writer Catherine Lim argues why GE2011 marked the beginning of a post Lee Kuan Yew era, and surveys the legacy of a great man. (Transcript of a lecture given at NUSS on 22 August 2012. The...
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