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Singapore Kopi Tok: People in Town Council Glass Houses: AIM at FMSS
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Bringing you views on Singapore's Foreign and Domestic Affairs! And sometimes other arguments too). Wednesday, May 15, 2013. People in Town Council Glass Houses: AIM at FMSS. Minister Khaw Boon Wan in parliament hit back at WP, and he did it by bringing up FM Solutions and Services. FMSS) His point was to drive home the idea that town councils are inherently political and WP is no different because FMSS is no more transparent than AIM, and no more apolitical than AIM. FMSS is WP's Political Embarrassment.
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Singapore Kopi Tok: November 2012
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Bringing you views on Singapore's Foreign and Domestic Affairs! And sometimes other arguments too). Monday, November 12, 2012. PAP Turfing Out Foreigners, Exit James Minchin. Well, that is the government's argument and let's see. The Home Affairs Ministry's Excuses. In the SDP video Let's Talk, SDP interviewed Father James Minchin. The Ministry of Home Affairs elaborated in its statement on barring the priest from entering Singapore that Father James Minchin came last year. There is double hypocrisy here...
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Singapore Kopi Tok: April 2012
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Bringing you views on Singapore's Foreign and Domestic Affairs! And sometimes other arguments too). Friday, April 27, 2012. Can Meritocracy and Equality co-exist? Lim Chong Yah’s “shock therapy” proposal has kick-started a much needed rethink on economic restructuring. There has been speculation. With family link even, that the impetus for this rethink might have be a deliberate strategy anointed by the highest levels of government.). Meritocracy, in a nutshell, means that the people get chosen for jobs ...
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Singapore Kopi Tok: February 2013
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Bringing you views on Singapore's Foreign and Domestic Affairs! And sometimes other arguments too). Wednesday, February 27, 2013. The Curious Case of Cherian George – Calibrated Coercion or Retardation? The indelible mark that Dr Cherian George has contributed to socio-political vernacular is his ‘calibrated coercion’ treatise. 8221; he continues to serve as the Director of the Temasek Foundation - NTU Asia Journalism Fellowship, and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow of the Institute of Policy Studies at th...
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Singapore Kopi Tok: March 2013
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Bringing you views on Singapore's Foreign and Domestic Affairs! And sometimes other arguments too). Friday, March 08, 2013. Disabled Drivers and Caregivers: Safe from New Car Loan Rules. Despite the rightful rage at the government for introducing the new car MAS loan rules that car buyers must have a cash down payment of 50% or 60% depending on the OMV of the car, and that the max loan tenure is 5 years instead of the current 10 years, there was some reasoned restraint in this new car tax. This begs the ...
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Singapore Kopi Tok: Corruption, Embezzlement and Cleaning Up the Civil Service
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Bringing you views on Singapore's Foreign and Domestic Affairs! And sometimes other arguments too). Friday, July 26, 2013. Corruption, Embezzlement and Cleaning Up the Civil Service. Yet another case of wrongdoing for personal gain in the civil service. CPIB chief Eric Tan did the right thing by humbly apologising for the actions of his officer but that is not enough for a public tired of cases of fallen civil servants abusing their authority. Whistle-Blowing and the Press. High Pay to Prevent Corruption.
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Singapore Kopi Tok: Cleaning Up Hawker Centres WP Style
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Bringing you views on Singapore's Foreign and Domestic Affairs! And sometimes other arguments too). Sunday, June 02, 2013. Cleaning Up Hawker Centres WP Style. A Misstep in Who Foots the Bill. In the latest battle of who can run town councils after better, fairer and cheaper after AIM and FMSS, WP is again under the spotlight as it passed the cost of cleaning the roof and ceiling of hawker centres to the hawkers instead of absorbing them as was in the past practice under the PAP. So soon after the FMSS-A...
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Singapore Kopi Tok: April 2013
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Bringing you views on Singapore's Foreign and Domestic Affairs! And sometimes other arguments too). Saturday, April 20, 2013. Gilbert's May Day Protest. Tan Jee Say: No to 6.9 million! Leong Sze Hian: No to 6.9 million! I am a super financial expert, take a look at my credentials that I must brag about. You know that I have at least 3 Masters, 2 Bachelors and 13 professional certificates right? Vincent Wijeysingha: No to 6.9 million! Jolovan Wham: No to 6.9 million! Nizam Ismail: No to 6.9 million!
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Singapore Kopi Tok: Balakrishnan and Pritam: High Noon Showdown Anticlimax
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Bringing you views on Singapore's Foreign and Domestic Affairs! And sometimes other arguments too). Wednesday, July 10, 2013. Balakrishnan and Pritam: High Noon Showdown Anticlimax. As it turned out, it was not the expected high stakes gun battle and WP chief Low Thia Khiang dismissed it all as a misunderstanding. Whatever it was, there is still no smoke without fire and the hawkers were upset, this time not with the PAP but with WP. Shutting Up Rather than Speaking Up. During the latest seating. The...
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Singapore Kopi Tok: December 2012
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Bringing you views on Singapore's Foreign and Domestic Affairs! And sometimes other arguments too). Thursday, December 13, 2012. Palmergate: Of politics and sex scandals 2012. PAP to dance to its own tune? Yet, it remains to be seen if the PAP will continue to walk the talk and reclaim political ground lost in the last by-elections. As it is, Low Thia Khiang's reactions to Palmer's affair has been nothing but fair and distinguished, and this strategy of political magnanimity will not only make PAP's ...
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