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Entries in Mah Bow Tan (7)

Wednesday
Apr142010

Statistics as a magic trick, continued

DateWednesday, April 14, 2010 at 10:39AM

Singapore Mind does one better and posted the entire Sue-Ann Chia editorial in this article, along with more numbers to illustrate how HDB mismanaged demand of flats and pulls together a pretty good summary with links.

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Monday
Apr122010

ST editorial highlights statistical trickery

DateMonday, April 12, 2010 at 11:13PM

I won't call it a triumph of journalism standards, but it is refreshing to see an ST editorial that cautioned against dismissing legitimate issues with the excuse of astroturfing, and exposed the sleight-of-hand that National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan presented to the ST as justification for rising resale flat prices, using Hazel Poa's blog post.

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Saturday
Apr102010

Statistics as a magic trick

DateSaturday, April 10, 2010 at 10:08PM

Hazel Poa breaks down the latest HDB statistics National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan provided to ST's Jessica Cheam to justify median household income outstripping increased HDB resale flat prices.

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Wednesday
Apr072010

ST refuses to challenge falsehoods

DateWednesday, April 7, 2010 at 10:36PM

Straits Times published a fluff piece today, an interview with National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan about the cost of public housing. The minister produced a chart proving that median household income has kept pace with prices of flats, which is touted by Jessica Cheam to be "hard facts and statistics".

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Wednesday
Mar172010

HDB flat prices to remain high, COV to stay

DateWednesday, March 17, 2010 at 1:08AM

National Development Minister, Mah Bow Tan has reiterated the wish of the government to keep flat prices high in an interview with Channel News Asia.

Mr Mah revealed that HDB will continue to built the majority of the flats in non-mature estate and to ensure that prices continue to stay up.

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Thursday
Mar112010

Our children pays for our political myopia

DateThursday, March 11, 2010 at 12:47PM

Allowing ourselves to be distracted from the real issues by being thankful of our current situation has never and will never make sense to me.

This is the Singapore story: Study hard, work hard, and you can pull yourself out of poverty.

I wish to remind the younger generation of where we have come from, and not to take what Singapore is now for granted. Today, I live in an HDB maisonette. Thank you, Singapore.

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Friday
Oct022009

Mr Mah, is that all you've got?

DateFriday, October 2, 2009 at 3:31PM

Mr Mah Bow Tan, Minister for National Development, has again rubbished talk of HDB flat prices being unaffordable, dismissing the concerns of Singaporeans with dodgy numbers and empty words.

“We’ll keep the prices such that they are pegged to the income, so this is how we manage affordability. We make sure that the prices do not exceed the 30 per cent benchmark.”

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