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    Wednesday
    10Mar2010

    There's a time and place for everything

    DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 12:40PM

    Call me old-fashioned, but I believe Parliamentary debate and proceedings should be conducted in a serious manner. These are hallowed chambers in which legislation affecting the entire country are discussed, formulated and passed, and there should be zero tolerance for frivolous questions, and floor time should be used judiciously. In other words, leave the banter outside of the chambers, thank you very much.

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    Wednesday
    10Mar2010

    Who Jack Neo jumps is none of our business

    DateWednesday, March 10, 2010 at 10:23AM

    So Jack Neo had a 2-year affair with a freelance model. Yes, he's famous, he is a grassroots leader for the PAP, and he was awarded the PBM and the Cultural Medal before. But does that merit a public defense from a Minister? Or the full glare of the media, both traditional and new? Why and how is this news of national import?

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    Tuesday
    09Mar2010

    Post of the Day, or why I love Paul Krugman

    DateTuesday, March 9, 2010 at 3:48PM

    Because he sums it up better than I can when it comes to my own feelings about unemployment benefits, otherwise known in this country and others as "the welfare state that will make people lazier and keeps them unemployed".

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    Tuesday
    09Mar2010

    Wrong answers from the wrong questions, continued

    DateTuesday, March 9, 2010 at 3:23PM

    Joshua Chiang's article on TOC again highlights the hollow arguments the PAP government has taken on, portraying homelessness as individual irresponsibility instead of a genuine social problem.

    Imran sold his flat for a profit. With the money, he rented a bungalow in Johor Bahru and even bought a car. Two years later, his money was spent, and he was back in Singapore, homeless.

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    Tuesday
    09Mar2010

    S&C charges raised, still no transparency

    DateTuesday, March 9, 2010 at 2:10PM

    Aljunied and Jurong Town Councils are set to increase the service and conservancy (S&C) charges in April.

    With electricity prices and maintenance costs going up, at least two town councils, Aljunied and Jurong, will raise their Service and Conservancy Charges (S&CC) next month.

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    Tuesday
    09Mar2010

    Wrong answers from the wrong questions

    DateTuesday, March 9, 2010 at 1:54PM

    Updated on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 9:56PM by Registered CommenterCallan Tham

    The Straits Times, true to its form of operating as a government mouthpiece, publishes this gem of an opinion piece disguised as "Prime News":

    MR I.B. YUSOF, a father of four young children, sold three Housing Board flats in nine years, netting $90,000 in profits.

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    Friday
    05Mar2010

    Political appointments get 8.8% raise

    DateFriday, March 5, 2010 at 4:57PM

    Tucked beneath a most innocuous headline:

    Despite inconclusive climate change talks in December, the Republic is nonetheless pushing ahead with more spending for a greener Singapore. Within the Government's expenditure estimates, which were released yesterday, green schemes featured notably as part of the new spending commitments in the year ahead.

    Salaries for political appointments - ministers, ministers of state and parliamentary secretaries - are estimated to be $58.28 million, or 8.8 per cent higher than last year.

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    Friday
    05Mar2010

    More conflict of interest at play

    DateFriday, March 5, 2010 at 2:22PM

    AsiaOne published a piece written by Tu Yong and Yu Shi Ming, from the Department of Real Estate, National University of Singapore, declaring that housing in Singapore is still affordable.

    HOUSING is a perennial hot topic of discussion, especially in Singapore where it touches almost every segment of society - from the low to middle income in public housing to the middle and higher income aspiring to upgrade to private property.

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    Friday
    05Mar2010

    Low Thia Kiang vs Josephine Teo

    DateFriday, March 5, 2010 at 11:49AM

    Updated on Friday, March 5, 2010 at 1:59PM by Registered CommenterCallan Tham

    The Workers' Party's Low Thia Kiang slammed the "conventional wisdom" that has squeezed local workers of "every drop of effort and energy from our workers to achieve its desired GDP numbers", in the Budget 2010 parliament debate.

    The Opposition leader pointed out that manual workers like cleaners and garbage collectors in developed economies are paid so much more than their counterparts in Singapore, attributing this to those countries’ more compassionate and effective policies to ensure that workers at the bottom of the economic ladder enjoy a decent and dignified life. Referring to the Government’s latest productivity drive, which is to grow productivity by 2 to 3 per cent each year over the next decade, Low wondered if low wage workers had to wait another 10 years for the wage increases which they had not seen in the last 10 years.

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    Thursday
    04Mar2010

    I have no words

    DateThursday, March 4, 2010 at 7:34PM

    There is nothing in my limited vocabulary that can come close to expressing my rage when I read this story.

    The group ActionAid released a report about the shocking rise in homophobic attacks and murders in South Africa, especially Johannesburg and Cape Town where lesbian women are being raped as a “corrective” punishment for being gay.

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