While Singaporean Pundits May Fixate on the Unexpected Fall in NODX, the Real Story is the Alarming Long Term Drop in Consumption and Rise in Net Exports as a Percentage of GDP
Enterprise Singapore recently published data showing a year-on-year decline in Non-Oil Domestic Exports (NODX) of 20.7% in March, which was […]
Shouldn’t MTI Receive a POFMA for Their Misleading Presentation of Growth Statistics? Growth is Slowing Down Not Speeding Up
On Friday 12 April the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) put out a press release headlined “Singapore’s GDP Grew […]
In Surprise Announcement LHL Fires the Starting Pistol for the Next Election But State Media Make Sure PAP Are the Only Ones Running
Today PM Lee announced that he was stepping down and handing the reins of power, at least in public though […]
“Keep Asking Yourself: Does this Deal Make Any Sense?”
I have been reading recently about the trial in the US of Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, a once […]
In Its Haste to Correct Leong Mun Wai, MSF Is Deliberately Disingenuous and Furthermore Releases Confidential Information Without Consent
Recently the MInistry of Social and Family Development (MSF) issued a POFMA Correction Notice against Leong Mun Wai (LMW) over […]
Can SLA Explain the Huge Discrepancy Between the Auction Results for 41 Malcolm Road and What They Are Charging for 26 and 31 Ridout Road?
CORRECTION NOTICE: This article contains a false statement of fact. For the correct facts, click here: https://www.gov.sg/article/factually180224 Whenever I bring up the […]
Dear PM Lee, Don’t Shed Crocodile Tears About Singaporeans Having Too Few Children
In your CNY message, you express the hope more Singaporeans will try for a baby in the Year of the […]
Is DBS’s Fantastic Profitability Due to Its CEO’s Ability or Its Dominant Share of Its (Protected) Home Market and Its Gouging of Singaporean Consumers?
Today DBS announced that its net profit for 2023 rose 26% to $10.3 billion and its return on equity rose […]
Leong Mun Wai Famously Described PSP to Me as PAP. Now It Seems He’s Shamelessly Turning It into Reform Party
Back in 2020 I held a Zoom meeting with Dr Tan Cheng Bock (TCB) from PSP. Also on the call […]
Why Mention of Ong Beng Seng Always Takes Me Back to the HPL, Nassim Jade Scandal.
Media both foreign and local – but always state – has been drip-feeding us information on the CPIB probe and […]
Is a Realistic Measure of the Size of Singapore’s Economy Only About Half What the PAP Government Says It Is?
I remember discussing Singapore’s development strategy with my Economics Director of Studies at Cambridge University, Professor Ajit Singh, in 1983. […]
Dear Lawrence Wong, Why Are You Now Telling Singaporeans That They Should Exchange Material Success for Spiritual Goals? Is That Because the PAP Have Failed Miserably or Are You Really so Out of Touch That You Think We’re as Rich as You and Your Colleagues?
Dear Lawrence Wong, thank you for giving Singaporeans the benefits of your accumulated life wisdom at the Forward Singapore event. […]
Shame On You, Shan and Bala! You Are Supposed to be Stewards of Our Nation’s Reserves Not Looking to Exploit Incompetent Management by a State Agency One of You Heads
Recently I read in Business Times that a Good Class Bungalow (GCB), which Su Baolin, one of the alleged money […]
Dear Lawrence Wong Stop Talking Like You’re a Hot Shot Investment Banker and Start Explaining to Singaporeans How the Reserves Benefit Them
CORRECTION NOTICE: This article dated 22 October 2023 contains false statements of fact. For the correct facts, click here: https://www.gov.sg/article/factually021123 According to […]
Singapore’s Population Jumps by 5% in One Year as PAP Resort to Their Old Tricks to Artificially Boost GDP Growth and Stop the Economy Falling into Recession
Today state media announced that Singapore’s population had risen to 5.92 million, a 5% jump from the previous year and […]
Dear Lawrence Wong, Please Explain Why MOH’s Budget in 2021 Was $18.4 Billion Yet I Can Only Find $7 Billion in Subsidies Going to Our Public Healthcare System
Dear Lawrence Wong, I have asked you and the Minister for Health repeated questions on many occasions about MOH’s Budget […]
Gutter Politics
Tan Cheng Bock and Tan Jee Say were seen out on walkabout with Tan Kin Lian this morning and both […]
Dear BG Lee, Thanks but No Thanks for Pretending to Dig into Your (Government’s) Pockets for Some Loose Change to Hand Out to Long Suffering Singaporeans. Instead Tell Us What You’ve Done With the $3 Trillion in Reserves.
CORRECTION NOTICE: This article (dated 21 August 2023) contains false statements of fact. For the correct facts, click here: https://www.gov.sg/article/factually300823-a. Another […]
Singapore is Reeling from the Latest Money Laundering Revelations
If you’ve been reading my blog you will know that Singapore’s blasé attitude towards abiding by legal norms and processes […]
Singaporeans MAS’s $31 Billion Loss Should Concern You but the Lack of Spending Should Concern You More
A lot of Singaporeans are commenting on MAS’s $31 billion loss for FY 2022/2023. This loss was largely due to […]
Shan POFMA me, I POFMA who?
So, a second POFMA has been issued to me in respect of my blog article, “As Huge Tracts of Land […]
Is this sub judice or just subnormal?
Two days ago Shanmugam put up a post on Facebook announcing that he and Balakrishnan intended to sue Lee Hsien […]
Breaking: Statement from Amnesty International
“ […] a further step in the insidious erosion of the right to free speech in Singapore,” Amnesty International said […]
As Huge Tracts of Land Are Given Away At Peanut Rents to Ministers, Singaporeans Should Be Asking Why There Are No Resources to Tackle the Time Bomb Lurking in Our (Lack of a) Healthcare System
Today state media mouthpiece CNA published an article entitled ‘We’re at the brink’’: Kidney disease crisis looms in Singapore as […]
Tie-dye Guy, Nicole Seah, Leon Perera and the ISD.
While Leon Perera’s disgruntled former driver’s involvement in the exposure of Leon Perera’s and Nicole Seah’s affair is known, what […]
Reform Party calls for Committee of Privileges and Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau to look into the Tan Chuan-Jin and Cheng Li Hui Matter and Its Coverup
RP is today reiterating the call made by our SG Kenneth Jeyaretnam on July 17th, for a thorough investigation or […]
Singaporeans Need to Take a Long Hard Look Under That Carpet
The PM’s Press conference of July 17th that was in addition to the Press Statement was extraordinarily alarming in what […]
Reform Party is Glad PM Agreed With Our SG Over the “Hot Mic” Incident But Serious Questions Remain Over Why LHL Allowed Tan Chuan Jin to Remain Speaker After His Affair Came to Light
Reform Party’s SG had on July 12th called for the resignation of Tan Chuan Jin as being unfit to be […]
While Allegations Against Iswaran Remain Allegations, He’s Definitely Won a Darwin Award for Stupidity
LHL’s CPIB has finally revealed that Iswaran had been arrested and bailed and that he was arrested on the same […]
WhyTan Chuan Jin Must Resign
Recently a video clip has been circulating of the Speaker of Parliament, Tan Chuan Jin (TCJ), calling Jamus Lim a […]
Parliament Was Never Meant to be a Bully Pulpit
Monday’s Parliamentary session on Ridout Road was not a debate so much as a torrent of angry, self-justifying and hypocritical […]
Come and Meet Me Tomorrow to Discuss Ridout Road
If you would like to discuss the Ridout Road saga and what to expect from the Parliamentary sitting on Monday […]
No Amount of Ownself Exonerating Ownself and Then Ownself Answering Questions About Investigation into Ownself in Parliament Can Get Around the Conflict of Interest, Mismanagement of Our Precious Reserves and Breach of the Ministerial Code
The stage has been set for the mother of all whitewashes in Parliament on Monday when the people who were […]
Do the PAP Really Think Singaporeans Are So Bodoh?
As predicted, within hours of my latest blog predicting a whitewash, both CPIB and Teo Chee Hean came out and […]
Don’t Be Gaslighted by State Media’s Attempt to Make You Think Ridoutgate Is Acceptable
As the Parliamentary hearing on 3 July draws closer and silence from Shanmugam’s good friend and footballing buddy Teo Chee […]
Despite Dismal Trade Figures PAP Continue to Squeeze Singaporeans to Build Up the Stock of Foreign Reserves
Today Enterprise Singapore released the latest trade figures showing that non-oil domestic exports (NODX) declined on a seasonally adjusted month-on-month […]
PM’s Wife Tells Us the Presidency Was Never Meant to be a Check and Balance Just a Cushy Retirement Home for Superannuated PAP Ministers so Needy Whining Singaporeans Should Get Out of Her and the PAP’s Elite Uncaring Face
In a Facebook post today Ho Ching told Singaporeans not to harbour the illusion that the Elected Presidency is any […]
Shanmugam Said “Who Watches the Watchers?” Thinking That No One in Singapore Will Dare to Challenge Him and His Fellow Ministers
When i published my blog “Shanmugam Uses the Agency He Controls to Defend the Indefensible” I used an image “Who […]
Why Tharman is Not Fit to be President
I was greeted this morning, by the carefully choreographed news that Tharman will be resigning from his Ministerial post and […]
Indranee Says “We Are Land Constrained”. Why Not Take Some Land from the Two Senior Ministers “Renting” Two of the Biggest Residential Plots in the whole of Singapore?
Yet huge plots of land right in the centre of the city are kept vacant for years and then rented, […]
Forget the Wayang Over FTX, the Reserves Are Never Going to Benefit You While PAP Remain in Power.
A few days ago Temasek announced that it was very sorry for screwing up with the FTX investment and losing […]
Vivian Balakrishan: “I am uptight about honesty. I will insist on a declaration of conflicts of interest…”
Eight years ago when Vivian Balakrishnan spoke at the REACH National Day Rally 2015 he asked his audience what kind […]
Davinder Singh: You would lose all authority, all moral authority to look at him (the ordinary Singaporean) in his eyes, isn’t that right?
The T.T. Durai National Kidney Foundation scandal started with a whistleblower who was silenced by a civil defamation suit (sound […]
Shanmugam and Balakrishnan Are So Sensitive They Deserve a Medal
A lot of you are talking about Tan Yeng Soon and the $50k cookery course etc. But let’s be clear, […]
Are the Rajahs of Ridout Skillful at Managing Their Own Personal Fortunes by Draining the Reserves?
Since I raised initial concerns the Ridout controversy has done the rounds of Singapore alternative media much inflamed by SLA […]
An Open Letter to the President demanding a Committee of Inquiry
Dear Madam Halimah Yacob On 5 May 2023 I raised concerns in a series of social media posts on my […]
Were the Bungalows Empty?-Addendum
It should be noted that the Straits Times article of May12th reported that the properties were empty for years before […]
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Shouldn’t MTI Receive a POFMA for Their Misleading Presentation of Growth Statistics? Growth is Slowing Down Not Speeding Up
On Friday 12 April the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) put out a press release headlined “Singapore’s GDP Grew […]
Dear PM Lee, Don’t Shed Crocodile Tears About Singaporeans Having Too Few Children
In your CNY message, you express the hope more Singaporeans will try for a baby in the Year of the […]
Is DBS’s Fantastic Profitability Due to Its CEO’s Ability or Its Dominant Share of Its (Protected) Home Market and Its Gouging of Singaporean Consumers?
Today DBS announced that its net profit for 2023 rose 26% to $10.3 billion and its return on equity rose […]
Is a Realistic Measure of the Size of Singapore’s Economy Only About Half What the PAP Government Says It Is?
I remember discussing Singapore’s development strategy with my Economics Director of Studies at Cambridge University, Professor Ajit Singh, in 1983. […]
Is DBS’s Fantastic Profitability Due to Its CEO’s Ability or Its Dominant Share of Its (Protected) Home Market and Its Gouging of Singaporean Consumers?
Today DBS announced that its net profit for 2023 rose 26% to $10.3 billion and its return on equity rose […]
Leong Mun Wai Famously Described PSP to Me as PAP. Now It Seems He’s Shamelessly Turning It into Reform Party
Back in 2020 I held a Zoom meeting with Dr Tan Cheng Bock (TCB) from PSP. Also on the call […]
While Singaporean Pundits May Fixate on the Unexpected Fall in NODX, the Real Story is the Alarming Long Term Drop in Consumption and Rise in Net Exports as a Percentage of GDP
Enterprise Singapore recently published data showing a year-on-year decline in Non-Oil Domestic Exports (NODX) of 20.7% in March, which was […]
Shouldn’t MTI Receive a POFMA for Their Misleading Presentation of Growth Statistics? Growth is Slowing Down Not Speeding Up
On Friday 12 April the Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) put out a press release headlined “Singapore’s GDP Grew […]
In Surprise Announcement LHL Fires the Starting Pistol for the Next Election But State Media Make Sure PAP Are the Only Ones Running
Today PM Lee announced that he was stepping down and handing the reins of power, at least in public though […]
“Keep Asking Yourself: Does this Deal Make Any Sense?”
I have been reading recently about the trial in the US of Mike Lynch, the founder of Autonomy, a once […]
In Its Haste to Correct Leong Mun Wai, MSF Is Deliberately Disingenuous and Furthermore Releases Confidential Information Without Consent
Recently the MInistry of Social and Family Development (MSF) issued a POFMA Correction Notice against Leong Mun Wai (LMW) over […]
Can SLA Explain the Huge Discrepancy Between the Auction Results for 41 Malcolm Road and What They Are Charging for 26 and 31 Ridout Road?
CORRECTION NOTICE: This article contains a false statement of fact. For the correct facts, click here: https://www.gov.sg/article/factually180224 Whenever I bring up the […]
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