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Written by Our Correspondent With the question of the exact percentage of Singapore citizens employed by Resorts World Sentosa lingering on the minds of many Singaporeans, a netizen Kojakbt has taken the initiative to pose the question to Foreign Minister George Yeo on his Facebook. The Singapore government has claimed... 

来源：星洲日报 ‧2010.02.24 罗马尼亚驻新加坡大使馆周二（2月23日）向新加坡外交部提交3份第3方照会，其中一份表示由于罗马尼亚政府在对涉嫌在车祸中撞人后逃跑的罗马尼亚公使西尔维乌．约内斯库展开调查期间，已终止了与他的雇佣合约，因此无法对他的言行加以约束。 约内斯库在车祸后回国。他在接受罗马尼亚... 

作者：Patrick Barta / P.R. Venkat《华尔街日报》2010年 02月 23日 新加坡出台了限制移民的新措施，努力缓和这个争议最大的新政治问题之一。 新加坡这个富裕的东南亚城市国家多年来一直允许引入大量外籍工人来增加本国人口数量，以保持其相对中国等拥有更多廉价劳动力的国家的竞争力。不过新加坡公民对这一政策越来越不满，他们说这个政策导致过度拥挤、打压了当地工资水平。经济学家们则认为，对外籍工人的过度依赖还令生产力水平低下，威胁到新加坡未来的增长。 新加坡政府对这些担忧作出回应，周一在年度预算报告中说，政府将从7月份开始，分阶段提高对外籍工人的征税。到2012... 

By Regina Leung from South China Morning Post The main political parties in Hong Kong said on Wednesday the latest budget measures proposed by Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah would not help ordinary people – particularly low-income earners.Democratic Party Chairman said the budget was too fiscally conservative.... 

Written by Our Correspondent Contrary to what was said by the PAP MPs and reported in the state media, the majority of Singaporeans are disappointed and unhappy with the 2010 Singapore Budget unveiled lately by Finance Minister Tharman. The PAP MPs have been singing praises of it in unison while the Singapore media has... 

By Richard Lu There is an interesting, intense on-going discussion in the Temasek Review pages on Pastor Rony Tan’s views and comments on lesbians and homosexuals in a video posted on the Lighthouse Evangelism website (since removed).  I choose not to delve into religion. Many of us so called liberals deem we are all... 

Written by Our Correspondent While extensive publicity was given by the state media on the impending hike in foreign workers levy to placate Singaporeans still peeved off with the ruling party over its pro-foreigner policy, little was mentioned about the expected increase in salaries of the PAP ministers and ministers of... 

Written by Our Correspondent The popular Vote PAP out Facebook started by a young vocal critic of the PAP Alex Tan two months ago has been down since 12pm today, but is now up again spontaneously. The exact cause of the downtime is not known yet. It has garnered more than 3,500 members so far, many of whom are young Singaporeans... 

Written by Our Correspondent In response to a question posed by PAP MP Zaqy Mohamad in Parliament yesterday on ministry’s plans to ensure that the mainstream media is sustainable and credible in the long term, Acting Minister for Information, Communications and Arts Lui Tuck Yew heaped generous praises on the “credibility”... 

Written by Our Correspondent The recent hike in the foreign worker levies has not gone down well with some Singapore bosses who fear that the ”measures will increase labour costs and make it hard to find enough staff to undertake the kind of work Singaporeans shun.” Faced with a potential backlash from angry...