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While Singaporeans are fretting over the expected influx of 100,000 foreign workers into the labor market this year, PAP Minister without portfolio and NTUC Secretary-General Lim Swee Say is preparing to welcome them, saying that it is a “good sign” that there is a “shortage” of workers in Singapore. Prime... 

Minister Mah Bow Tan reminded Singaporeans not to cash in on their HDB flats for funds as they are meant to be roofs over their heads. (Mah Bow Tan: A HDB flat is for long-term homeownership, TR – 22nd July) Mr Mah, I wish to state the fact that for the majority of Singaporeans who started out poor like you, not everyone... 

BEIJING – THE Chinese government has sacked two officials and suspended relocation work after up to 1,000 people protested in a wealthy eastern province last week, angry at compensation for land seizures, state media said. The protests lasted for four days in part of Suzhou, a manufacturing hub close to Shanghai in... 

It has become a standard modus operandi of the PAP to bring their self-proclaimed “forecaster extraordinarie” to the frontline whenever the ministers found public pressure to great to cope on their own. Following massive public outrage at the recent spates of flooding which once again exposed the incompetence... 

The repressive PAP regime is so obsessed with making its YOG a resounding success to boost its international profile that it is willing to go to any lengths to do so including causing inconveniences to Singapore commuters. A public campaign is now underway to remind Singaporean drivers to give way to YOG vehicles in designated... 

An ‘optimum’ population‘, in dictionary terms, is the ‘best or most favourable’ population. But a dictionary cannot tell the whole story. Best for what purpose, and best according to which criteria? For OPT, a green think tank, an optimum population means, at its simplest, a population size which is environmentally... 

LAST year, there were 188 road fatalities, or a road death every other day, and driving along Lim Chu Kang Road on Monday morning, it was not difficult for me to see why. The speed limit of the road was 70kmh, and as I drove along, big trucks and lorries flashed past me, dangerously above the speed limit. Drivers who speed... 

Speaking in Parliament yesterday, PAP National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan reminded Singaporeans not to cash in on their HDB flats for funds as they are meant to be roofs over their heads. A day earlier, a housing Bill was passed to prevent moneylenders from lodging caveats on HDB flats to claim a stake in sale proceeds... 

A visibly upset Singaporean by the name of Tan Poh Lam has written to the Straits Times Forum expressing his reservations at the campaign launched by the PAP to get motorists to give way to Youth Olympic Games (YOG) buses during the event. He wondered if the campaign is really necessary as existing infrastructure are more... 

Reporters without Borders, 20 July 2010 Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the contempt of court charges that have been brought against British freelance journalist Alan Shadrake in connection with his new book, “Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock.” Freed on bail last night, Shadrake is due to...