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Former Prime Minister's recent remarks on the need for "foreign talent" in Singapore has not been received well by netizens Mr Lee Kuan Yew has done it again. First, the former Prime Minister angered the Malay-Muslim community by suggesting that they were not making enough of an effort to integrate into mainstream... 

In other First World countries, it will be impossible for hawkers to even find work there, let alone become their Permanent Residents, but not so in Singapore, a truly ‘cosmopolitan’ city which is completely ‘open’ to ‘foreign talents’ from all over the world, according to PAP supreme... 

Straits Times, 27 July 2011 DON’T worry, be happy, as the song goes, but as May’s General Election showed, Singaporeans do worry, about everything from immigration to crowded trains. They have also increasingly questioned the costs of economic growth. Enter Nanyang Technological University (NTU) economist Nattavudh... 

Though he has relinquished his position in the Singapore cabinet, PAP supreme leader Lee Kuan Yew continues to steal the limelight from his son Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong which leaves one wondering who is really in charge of Singapore. Less than a week after peeving off Singaporeans with his callous remarks on the influx... 

I am a full-time night shift cabbie, worked as PMET for 25 yrs, possessed a BBA from Curtin Uni and after long stint of unemployment (some 2 years), ended up as a taxi driver! Let me share some input. After graduation, I worked some 17 yrs in MOM but in 2004, then DPM LHL announced that the Civil Service needed to be “trimmed”... 

(Vietnam) – The Singapore embassy in Vietnam has given scholarships worth a total of US$702,000 to six students in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. The students will fly to Singapore from July 27 to follow three or four-year academic programmes at the National University of Singapore (NUS), the Nanyang Technological University... 

A netizen got the shock of his life when he received his notice from NETS that his application for NETS Value-Added service UnionPay has been approved. UnionPay is an association for China’s banking card industry, operating under the approval of the People’s Bank of China (PBOC, central bank of China) and is... 

ASIAWEEK March 10, 2000. BY ROGER MITTON Singapore PUBLIC protests are rare in Singapore. Official ones, rarer yet. But 12 years ago, the then deputy prime minister, Ong Teng Cheong, led a noisy demo against American interference in Singapore’s affairs. Some local lawyers had been detained without trial and a US... 

According to a source close to PRC ‘talent’ Wang Peng Fei who posted a video online mocking Singaporeans, the 24 year-old has left Singapore for China on 26th July after learning that a police report has been lodged against him (link). Miss Lee, who claims to be a classmate of Mr Wang at the East Asia Institute... 

With Singaporeans, especially the youth clamoring for more effective checks on the repressive PAP regime, PAP supreme leader Lee Kuan Yew found it timely to send another veiled threat to his ’subjects’ that a two-party system will ‘weaken’ Singapore. In an interview with China Central Television...