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TR Bros and sis, Need your help. I’m trying to compile a list of MPs holding directorships in public listed companies. The directorship of public listed companies in Singapore can be found in the annual reports here (the most recent copy is kept on SGX’s website): http://www.sgx.com/wps/portal/marketplace/mp-en/listed_companies_info/annual_reports_financial_reports The... 

Late JB Jeyaretnam Contrary to the popular misperception which is reinforced by the state media, the Workers’ Party of today was not ‘built’ by Low Thia Kiang, but by the late opposition leader Joshua Benjamin Jeyaretnam, or JBJ, as he is fondly remembered. The Workers’ Party was founded by Singapore’s... 

TWO-THIRDS of Australians oppose the Singapore Stock Exchange’s proposed takeover of the Australian Stock Exchange. Coalition supporters are even more against the move than Labor voters. A poll by UMR Research shows 62 per cent of Labor voters and 71 per cent of Coalition voters oppose the venture, an even higher... 

The Star, 27 December 2010 MIRI: Young men, including college and university students, have found themselves caught in a web of vice after being lured by the “special services” offered by massage parlours that have mushroomed throughout the state. Some of these so-called body and foot massage centres here are accepting... 

The Reform Party (RP) has called on the government to be ‘prudent’ in its policy implementation, especially on “policies that unduly increase the tax burden of Singaporeans.” In a well-thought article published on votingrp.wordpress.com, RP election candidate Tony Tan Lay Thiam criticized the government... 

A fair playing field, compensation and an even distribution of wealth During my NS days my Poly cohorts many of them are very intelligent and I am sure they are many times better then the cheaper labor today. Not to mention the fake qualifications and poor quality Poly graduates today like the Myanmar guy here with very... 

In the last few days, the state media has gone on a propaganda overdrive to inject a ‘feel-good’ factor in Singaporeans during the festive season to ‘help’ them forget about their daily struggles in life as a result of the government’s misguided policies. Channel News Asia carried a series... 

Straits Times political ‘correspondent’ Kor Kian Beng wrote an unusual lengthy editorial today playing up the chances of the Singapore opposition in the coming general election, two weeks after his colleague Elgin Toh has unshamedly called on Singaporeans to vote for the PAP’s endorsed ‘opposition’... 

“Those who missed out, those who can’t buy this, who can’t upgrade and so on, so we are really feeling the unhappiness, question is was the policy good? Unhappiness, those who are happier, in total there’s net happiness, there’s no such thing called total happiness, don’t believe in it.... 

I located an official report stating the number of new PRs (permanent residents) and naturalized citizens. (http://www.nps.gov.sg/files/news/Charts%20for%20DPM’s%20speech%20on%20population%20at%20COS%202010%20-%20final.pdf) Please download the report before it is deleted by the ruling PAP (People’s Action Party)...