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By Low Wei Xiang The following article was originally written by the writer at myhometown.sg . Comparing the newspaper headlines of a few months ago and now, one can certainly see the stark differences. A few months ago, a prevalent theme in The Straits Times was MM Lee’s calls for Singaporeans to put up with the... 

Written by Our Correspondent Unfazed by the negative publicity surrounding his business dealings with Eunos grassroots organizations, YPAP member Sear Hock Rong has launched another tirade at the online community again. In his latest blog posting, Mr Sear attacked the Temasek Review for being an “anti-government”... 

I refer to the letter by Mr Jayaraman dated 23 Feb 2010.   He described the current market as being in a state of depression since 1997 as though 1997 represents the year of normalcy we should benchmark ourselves against.  But 1997 is no ordinary year.  It is the year when over-exuberance boiled over and led to the bursting... 

Press release from The Reform Party, 23 February 2010 and republished here with kind permission from Mr Kenneth Jeyaretnam Source: The Reform Party The Reform Party has already set out its response to the report by the Economic Strategies Committee in its press release dated 3rd February 2010. We said there that “there... 

Written by Our Correspondent Kenneth Jeyaretnam, the Secretary-General of the Reform Party has written a comprehensive response to Finance Minister Tharman’s recent Budget speech, demolishing his assertion that the government’s foreigner policy has raised the wages of Singaporeans. Mr Tharman substantiated his... 

Written by Our Correspondent According to a report in the Herald Sun, the average weekly wage in Australia is now AUD$1226.70, after rising by 5.9 per cent in the year to November. The quarterly seasonally-adjusted pace of average weekly ordinary time earnings (AWOTE) rose two per cent in the three months to November,... 

Written by Our Correspondent The Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) appeared to be played out by its Romanian counterparts again after its attempts to get Romanian diplomat Dr Silviu Ionescu back to Singapore to testified at a Coroner’s Inquiry was rebuffed. Dr Silviu Ionescu was implicated in the double... 

Reuters, 26 February 2010 LAS Vegas Sands, which will open its US$5.5 billion (S$7.7 billion) Singapore casino resort in late April, plans to renegotiate its US$5 billion debt in the United States by the end of this year, the company’s chief operating officer said on Wednesday. ‘We want to go to our US lender... 

Written by Our Correspondent Reform Party’s Secretary-General Kenneth Jeyaretnam has set up a Facebook group calling for the abolition of GRC or Group Representative Constituency which has garnered 140 members so far. According to him, the facebook is: “For all those who believe that GRC’s are simply... 

OPINION In a speech made to Tanjong Pagar residents recently, Singapore’s strongman Lee Kuan Yew said Singapore’s future over the next five to 10 years is an “optimistic” one. Lee did not elaborate on the reasons behind him thinking so, but he appeared to bank his hopes on the tourism industry spear-headed...