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Today’s (27 July 2010) newspapers (both TODAY and The Straits Times) featured comments by National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan about rising prices in the public housing market. “It’s in the interest of buyers to have low COVs, but it’s in the interest of sellers who own the flats to have high COVs.... 

PAP MP Dr Lim Wee Keat has been slammed by netizens for his callous remarks on the $300,000 overcharged to commuters since the new distance-based far scheme was introduced in August this year, prompting some to threaten to cast a protest vote against him in the coming general election. In a callous tone typical of PAP leaders,... 

Embattled PAP Housing Minister Mah Bow Tan is fast running out of excuses to defend his miserable track record which has seen HDB flat prices ballooned to record high levels under his watch. For the second time in two weeks, Mah has made use of the state media to allay the anxieties of Singaporeans and to deflect blame... 

With the year coming to an end, let us recall the most unforgettable remarks made by our multi-millionaire PAP ministers over the past 12 months. Due to space and time constraint, we have to exclude some equally hilarious if not obnoxious statements made by the PAP MPs and some ministers are quoted more than once simply... 

Europe was blanketed in a thick layer of snow, creating unprecedented traffic havoc and arousing much frustration among the commuters. But, that was God’s will… Well, that’s not what I meant. I was only reminded of what a minister said of the landslide along our very own North-South Highway several years... 

In a purely fictional country called “The mother of all Hubs”, this is how the scholarship system is used. The most obvious purpose is to identify bright, young people. What happens next is not so obvious. These bright young people represent a clear and present danger to the existing system. So they must be... 

The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has released a baffling letter to the Straits Times Forum today in response to the damaging allegations made by ex-ISA detainee Michael Fernandez who filed a writ of summons against the PAP regime a few days ago. In the writ which can be read online here, Mr Fernandez accused the Internal... 

A bubble tea shop at Bencoolen giving priority to China PRs. The counter girl is a mainland Chinese lady. It can take Mainland Chinese as fast as two years to get their PR status, especially if they’re in the service line. It seems like their stand on importing Chinese to represent Singaporeans in sports has resonated... 

I was reading an article from TemasekReview.net on my iPhone and shared with my brother (20 years old, last semester in Poly) about Mr. George Yeo’s comments. He reads the ST and Berita Harian regularly and so I wanted to know his opinion about it. What I heard from him was unsurprisingly shocking. He said, “Yea.... 

In 2010, the UN Data website (http://data.un.org/CountryProfile.aspx?crName=SINGAPORE) listed the number of people of foreign stock in Singapore as 1 966 900 and forming 40.7% of the total population. The UN (United Nations) was based on sovereign independent nations. The Republic of Singapore was proclaimed on 9 Aug 1965....