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While Singaporeans largely blame WikiLeaks, a minority is attributing the underlying cause of recent problems to a “condescending attitude” towards friends and neighbours less successful than them. A WORLD where diplomatic secrets can become tomorrow’s Page One news is posing special problems for any country but... 

With the year 2010 drawing to a close, let us recap some of the most memorable PAP screw-ups which make a mockery of the multi-million dollar salaries its ministers are getting. Is the recurrent ‘once in a fifty year’ flooding which ‘no amount of engineering’ can prevent or is it the over-hyped YOG... 

Buy 2 panties and you will receive a free video clip of the Singapore College student  taking off the lingerie (her face was not shown). Thats the added “bonus” for clients who are buying from the 19 year-old student, who is selling her used panties online for $45 each. The  girl, known only as Felicia on... 

Desmond Lim Bak Chuan Mr Desmond Lim Bak Chuan, the Secretary-General of the Singapore Democratic Alliance has declined an interview by the Temasek Review on his latest spat with his ‘mentor’ Chiam See Tong on the grounds that the matter is being handled by the lawyers. Channel News Asia reported yesterday that... 

As the elections are coming soon, I would like to take this opportunity to request that all Singaporeans do your part as citizens to ask as many questions to the ruling party, to understand if they are capable and able to provide you with realistic and sensible answers, or will they try and skirt around the question and... 

作者：新加坡文献馆 后李光耀时代对李光耀的历史评论必定是个引人注目的研究课题，或许，除了正统的学术研究途径之外，也可以从非传统的另类途径，多方面去尝试了解李光耀在历史过程中所扮演过的多元角色。 中国历史有正史与野史之分，前者指官修历史是可考证的历史，后者指私人编辑的历史，其中有私下传递的不可或无法考据的历史。 2010年12月6日，我爸是李光耀的李玮玲透露... 

The latest CPI report shows a rise of 3.8% in Nov 2011[Link] the highest in the past few years. This is after a rise of 3.6% in Oct 2011. “While the usual suspects continued to drive inflation in November—including transport, housing and food costs—it should be noted that all major segments within the CPI basket... 

The Indonesian maid who allegedly caused the death of her employer’s 12-year-old disabled daughter is likely to escape the gallows if found guilty, saved by her age. Under the Criminal Procedure Code, the death sentence cannot be imposed on a defendant below the age of 18. Nurhayati’s actual age is only 16... 

$300,000 is peanuts PAP MP and Chairman of the PAP’s ‘parliamentary committee’ for transport Dr Lim Wee Keat has dismised the $300,000 overcharged to commuters since the regime’s much maligned distance-based fare scheme was introduced in July this year. The new changes sparked widespread public unrest... 

Dear Mr Dan Buettner, I refer to the 5 Dec 2010 Straits Times report of your latest book which features Singapore as the happiest place in Asia. You said Gallup, the World Values Survey and the World Database on Happiness are the three most authoritative and authentic happiness indices and that all three pointed to Singapore...