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There are no further updates on the condition of PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew who was admitted to the Singapore General Hospital yesterday for a chest infection. In a terse statement released yesterday, Lee’s press secretary said: “Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew was planning to attend Dr Balaji’s (Senior Minister... 

An obviously peeved Singaporean by the name of Keith Gerard Tan has written to the Straits Times Forum to lambast the Singapore Youth Olympic Games Organizing Committee (SYOGOC) for the recent spate of lapses which suggest “poor post-event planning.” Just a week after PAP minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan apologized... 

As election fever nears and the various parties buzz about, let’s also remind ourselves to be realistic and practical. By getting elected to “parliament” in Singapore is not the “be-all and end-all”. Parliament, just like any other state apparatus, is completely under the control of the authoritarian PAP. It’s... 

In other developed countries, jobs in the service industry are usually reserved for locals. However in Singapore, more than one third of the workers in its service industry are foreigners, thanks to the warped PAP logic that they are “foreign talents” required by Singaporeans. The increasing number of foreign... 

The shocking $11.8 million fraud case involving two senior Singapore Land Authority (SLA) officials has cast a long shadow over Singapore’s “incorruptible” international image, leaving Singaporeans wondering how many such cases remained uncovered by the authorities. One BBC commentator even remarked sarcastically... 

The Office of Foreign Labor Certification (OFLC), located within the Employment & Training Administration (ETA), provides national leadership and policy guidance to carry out the responsibilities of the Secretary of Labor under the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), as amended, concerning the admission of foreign... 

In an article with the most inappropriate headline “YOG boosts tourism“, ST journalist Jessica Lim proclaims that “the number of tourists to Singapore last month shot up 18 percent compared to August last year, DUE IN PART to the Youth Olympic Games”. (original article here) According to the figures... 

Our Modern Singapore problems today is the result of influx of second, third class citizens from China and India who are always ready to take lesser salaries and hence we the local born Singaporeans lost our jobs, worse, the government of the day ie the PAP government is informally encouraging this and how can minimum... 

Dear Mr Ong,   I refer to your Straits Times article dated 23 Sept 2010.   We must avoid the common mistake of portraying the acts of violence by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) in Malaya as being acts of violence towards Singapore.  We must not deny the historical fact that all acts of violence by the MCP took place... 

The roles the founder and former chief executive of Ren Ci hospital will take on after his release have been the subject of speculation. The Venerable Ming Yi, who led an evening chanting session for about 300 Buddhist devotees at the Foo Hai Ch’an monastery at Geylang East yesterday, declined to be interviewed when...