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BG (NS) Tan Chuan Jin Dear my Honorable MP Mr Tan Here is a few feedback of your Parliament speech you and your scriptwriters have so carefully drafted above, please take a few moment to read this. Firstly, the review committee was solely appointed by the PAP. So naturally it can’t be helped people are out there saying... 

Over the past few days, the PAP government has been blowing their own trumpets boasting their success in lowering unemployment rate to a 3-year-low, 1.9%, in a recently published statistic, they seems to have deliberately omitted the issue of underemployment that has hit Singaporean Professionals, Managers, Executives and... 

The latest shuffling of the Cabinet and leadership appointments that has taken place by the PAP have shown that the establishment recognize the need for a change in existing policies and their modus operandi. Clearly, this is a case of too-little-too-late as rectifications and help will not deliver to the afflicted overnight.... 

In the recently announced Shadow Budget by Singapore Democratic Party, Dr Wijeysingha proposes to abolish GST stating it as a regressive tax that “unfairly places the burden of taxation on the less well off”. There is no doubt the present GST system is indeed unjustifiably weighing on the low income earners... 

The “Face-to-Face” political discussion conducted by the YPAP at the NTUC Building is one spectacular wayang any true blue Singaporean should not miss. MP Baey Yam Keng and Mediacorpse artiste Tay Ping Hui are the highlights of the event with the noticeable absence of Teo Ser Luck, who came in casual shirt and... 

After watching the National Day Rally 2010 for the 3rd time, I am very positive of how insecure PM Lee is feeling right now. This is probably what you get for having an educated people empowered with worldly knowledge no thanks to the Internet. PM Lee is really clueless. Yes, he is aware of the rising unhappiness, but he... 

Meet Sinha, your friendly residential alien from India. He was granted a Permanent Residency status in the 1980s and is absolutely brilliant. Lets see what has he done right as a successful Foreign Talent.   1) Never convert to Citizenship Singapore citizenship is second class in meritocratic Singapore because Singaporeans... 

Back when Singapore was still a developing nation, life on a general basis was affordable and national identity was strongly fostered among the people. In the population of 2.5 million before 1990, and everyone can afford a decent and pleasant standard of living, trust was deeply rooted into the PAP government because they... 

By Alex Tan During a Q-and-A session of a recent Political Forum held on 26 January 2010 at NUS, students lobbied tough questions at a PAP MP Mr Alvin Yeo. The forum called the “Political Face-off” features Workers’ Party Chairman Sylvia Lim, PAP MP Lawyer Alvin Yeo and Dr Leong Chan Hoong (Institute of...