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Tony Tan In the recent Community Care Endowment Fund (ComCare) appreciation lunch on 2 Dec 2010, PM Lee spoke on the government’s approach to boost our social safety nets. PM Lee said that we should not create a handout mentality and impose a tax burden that would prove impossible to roll back. On the point of further... 

A 39 year old female People’s Association (PA) volunteer has lodged a police report against a 62 year old Residents’ Committee (RC) Chairman for ‘cheating’ her body and money, according to a report in Chinese tabloid Lianhe Wanbao. The lady accused the RC Chairman of luring her to bed with empty... 

The political in-fighting in the Singapore People Party continues as its estranged former ‘protege’ of veteran opposition MP Chiam See Tong, Desmond Lim sent a lawyer’s letter to him. Mr Lim was removed as a CEC member of SPP following a fractious party election a few months ago which saw him being involved... 

Singapore’s inflation rate continues to soar, hitting a record high of 3.8 percent in November, according to the latest figures released by the Department of Statistics. Price increases were driven primarily by hikes in housing, transport and food. Despite a series of ‘cooling measures’ introduced by the... 

Dear Mr/Ms Editors After long time browsing the news and outstanding columnist posted in New Temasek Review, I am inspired by the outstanding view of some articles and comprehensive and fierce discussions on the local and current issues. As a global generation, I show out a strong passion and interesting to the global issues... 

Of over six billion people in the world, about 599,994,000,000 have a place, however flawed, they can count as their country. The remaining six million people are called Singaporeans. We are simultaneously miracle and tragedy. Economically speaking, Singapore has prospered far beyond what anybody thought possible. Less... 

This is addressed to those who live in fear that the so-called secret vote is not secret and, therefore, they will be ‘fixed’ if they vote for Opposition. These voters fear that they and their family members will not get promoted and/or lose their jobs, among other bad things befalling them. Think. EVEN IF the... 

The scourge of the opposition – a perennial inability to work together has raised its ugly head again as the protracted SPP-RP spat takes another turn. After Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) Chairman Desmond Lim was unceremoniously dumped for his opposition to Reform Party joining the alliance, another SPP leader... 

A Straits Times report by Mr Jeremy Au Yong and Mr Kor Kian Beng on the public forum last week organised by The Online Citizen (TOC) described opposition parties as “taking jibes at the People’s Action Party (PAP)”. Were they attending the same event as everyone else?  Definition of jibe: to taunt or... 

The recent rejection of applications by Singaporeans For Democracy (SFD), Humanitarian Organisation for Migration Economics (Home) and Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) for public processions are further examples of an authoritrian regime making up the rules as it goes along and want only abusing power. In the Home’s...