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This is a follow up to the previous post on DPM Tony Tan’s role in university education reform. There are a number of objections and replies to what was posted here and elsewhere. I think it’s fair only if I addressed some of these. Apart from that there are new points to be made here as well. A commenter said that... 

(This letter was posted on the thread, ‘Painful experience of a local PMET working in financial sector‘, responding to the author of the thread) . Dear Just an ordinary PMET, I am in a similar situation like yourself. Having started work in a MNC for 6 years starting from the lowest IT Helpdesk Personnel to... 

Recently the govt announced another increase of CPF minimum sum(MS) to $131,000 from $123,000.  For many who are unfamiliar, this sum seems somewhat astonishing and arbitrary but the rules and rationale for the minimum sum was laid out during Goh Chok Tong’s time as PM in 2003. The goal was to raise minimum sum to... 

Netizens are amused by a giant billboard of controversial PAP MP Tin Pei Ling welcoming them to ‘MacPherson SMC’ put up recently in the ward: Strictly speaking, Ms Tin is a MP of Marine Parade GRC of which MacPherson is a ‘division’. ‘MacPherson SMC’ does not exist on the electoral map. Victor... 

According to the website of NUS NanoCore, an interdisciplinary research collaboration in the science and technology of the nano-scale ‘generously’ funded by the National University of Singapore, Singapore offers ‘uncomplicated’ immigration and foreign students can obtain Singapore PR immediately... 

看到陈庆炎出来选总统的尴尬登场，我的阴谋论又再次发作了。 陈庆炎劈头一句：不是政府叫我出来选的。足以见证2011年大选后执政党的屈辱，因为现任政府背书的人说不定就因此失去选票，输到脱裤。什么时候这个政府变得如此不济？就是这个时候。 杨荣文大概打听到行动党属意要陈庆炎出来选，自行打退堂鼓，也算他识做，要不然将来可能没有面目见人。陈庆炎自家的报业控股，记者们也很会做人，东打听西采访，就是没有高官和行动党议员出来说话，仿佛这些都是臭鼬，沾上边就馊了。 新加坡总统人选向来有让少数种族做的一个习惯，为的是要削弱在东南亚回教海洋里惟一华人国家的色彩，如今提也没有人敢提，阿都拉和再诺都销声匿迹，形成“三陈鼎立”的局面，将来执政党会不会提出“保护少数种族当选总统”的说法呢？ 陈庆炎是个好人，看他当官这么多年，我敢肯定这么说，他甚至比一般高官还更谦卑。但是他是不是有道德勇气为了人民的长远利益而质问政府，甚至对着干呢？（不然要如何否决？）我倒不这么认为。其实单凭这点，就不值得把票投给他。 我们... 

Let me share my thoughts on the election of the President, whom the PAP wants us to think is a person who “unifies Singapore”. There is a sublimal message carried in the mass propaganda exercise, but the message is as wrong as wrong can be. Because, NO one can unify Singapore. Political views are already very diverse... 

The PAP regime’s ‘wayang’ to encourage employers to send their ‘foreign talents’ for a non-compulsory English test following widespread complaints by Singaporeans and tourists alike at their poor command of the English language appears to backfire dramatically as there are few takers. The Service... 

Presidential candidate Dr Tony Tan has received strong endorsements from several PAP figures, including Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong A flood of endorsements has poured in for Presidential candidate Dr Tony Tan Keng Yam just days after he held a press conference to declare his interest in contesting the upcoming Presidential... 

According to a blogger, “LonelyKitten”, these foreigners from China come to Singapore on social visit passes, but spend their time begging on the streets. In his blog entry accompanied by pictures of disabled men begging on the street, the blogger says he has observed one beggar who managed to pocket at...