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By Mustafa Shafawi from Channel News Asia Singapore on Friday raised its economic growth forecast this year as countries that buy most of its exports emerge from recession. The upgrade from 3.0-5.0 percent to 4.5-6.5 percent came after economic growth gathered pace in the fourth quarter, allowing the economy to contract... 

Written by Our Correspondent In an interview with Straits Times today, former Barisan Sosialist leader Dr Lim Hock Siew claimed that his party would have provided more welfare for Singaporeans had they won the elections in 1963. A splinter group from the PAP, Barisan Sosialist was led by the charismatic Lim Chin Siong who... 

Straits Times Insight, 19 February 2010 WHAT if Barisan Sosialis had beaten the People’s Action Party (PAP) in the September 1963 General Election? How differently would it have ruled the country? Barisan gave the ruling party its closest call in Singapore’s political history when it garnered 33 per cent of... 

Written by Our Correspondent Caught off guard by the rising public anger against its misguided immigration and pro-foreigner policies, the ruling party has been fire-fighting for the last few weeks to appease Singaporeans by introducing last-minute cosmetic changes to “sharpen the distinction between citizens and... 

Written by Our Correspondent According to a household survey conducted by HDB in 2008, over eight in ten HDB flat owners find their flats “value for money”. The key reasons quoted are appreciation in value, good location and proximity to facilities. About 85 per cent of Singaporeans live in public housing built... 

By Richard Lu Transparency International (TI) publishes an annual Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) according to “the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians”.   Corruption is best described as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain”.  The... 

Written by Our Correspondent The Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) casino was supposed to attract “high-end” customers to spend their money there, but ended up being flooded by foreign workers in the first five days of its operations much to the chagrin of gamblers. According to a Lianhe Wanbao report, the casino... 

Dear Mr Lee,   I refer to your comments made at the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry Singapore’s 40th anniversary celebrations as reported by Straits Times on 11 Dec 2009.   You said old people don’t change cars, television sets or golf clubs every year.  Neither do younger people.  In fact, changing... 

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 Top 8 will be a new regular Sports feature (published every Friday), where the editors will choose eight top persons/incidents and rank them in descending order, either by pure opinion, hard data or a mixture of both. Why eight? It is not because the editors are lazy but because top ten is getting boring and eight is...