While Norway insists on transparency, our Familee-managed SWFs prefer the fishing in muddy waters
Yesterday the Financial Times reported that Norway’s Finance Ministry had forbidden its sovereign wealth fund (SWF) from investing in private equity. […]
CCS only took an interest in the Uber-Grab merger after I said that it should be stopped
On March 28 Uber announced it had sold its operations in South-East Asia to rival Grab in return for a […]
Did Data Mining Firm Cambridge Analytica swing the election for Najib? (and is your personal data safe with Facebook?)
Since I wrote this it has been announced that Facebook faces an FTC (Federal Trade Commission) probe into whether it […]
Discounts and Jobs For Relatives Are OK For PM Lee and His Family But Not For The GM of His Town Council
On Wednesday the GM of Ang Mo Kio Town Council, Victor Wong Chee Meng, was charged with 55 counts of […]
Retired Superman Goh Doesn’t Tell The Full Story When It Comes to Trade
After being told to shut up by Lee Hsien Loong and reminded that he is just an old age pensioner […]
PAP’s Tactics Against Sylvia Lim Follow A Familiar Pattern of Fake News and Distraction
Now that Parliament has passed the charade of fake accounting and sham spending that is the PAP’s excuse for a […]
Dear White (Racist UK Leave) People. Everything you think you know about Singapore is wrong.
On Sunday morning in the UK on a weekly BBC TV show about politics a British Conservative politician came out […]
Will Heng Swee Keat Stop Lying About The Government’s Finances?
On Friday Sylvia Lim raised the issue of whether the Government had raised test balloons before the Budget to see […]
While There Is A Furore Over Xi’s Scrapping of Term Limits, LHL’s Decision to Cling to Power Passes Almost Unnoticed
Over the weekend Chinese state media announced (see the WSJ article here) that China’s Party Congress would consider a proposal […]
BG Chan’s Words Not Only Insulted The Intelligence of Singaporeans But Were Deeply Worrying
Yesterday I wrote about how Chan Chun Sing had patronised Singaporeans by giving them the benefit of his Cambridge Economics […]
Shock! BG Chan Chun Sing Reveals He Passed Primary School Maths
Let no one be in doubt as to the intellectual qualities of PAP’s 4th Generation Leadership! This was confirmed to […]
What Economics Can Teach Us About The Irresponsible Fiscal Policies Pursued by Germany and Singapore
It is always remarkable how much praise Singapore gets from liberal or left-leaning economists who should know better. A few […]
Budget 2018: Same Old Cliches As Heng Makes Your Money Vanish in the Uniquely Singaporean Version of the Shell Game
Budget time yesterday and my first thought was that I had stepped into a time machine and been transported back […]
We Know It’s Budget Time When State Media Put Up An Unsympathetic Family to Trick You Into Thinking PAP Government Can’t Do More
It is Budget time again and part of our good old PAP-controlled state media’s job is to prepare Singaporeans not […]
Singapore Does Badly in World Bank Report on Wealth of Nations
Just as you would not be able to judge the financial soundness of a company by looking at its income […]
The Only Thing Pritam Singh Has in Common With JBJ is the Colour of His Skin
Today Daniel Goh announced that he would not be contesting the SG role leaving the field clear for Pritam Singh […]
Will He Stay or Will He Go?
I for one have always been sceptical of the assumption that Lee Hsien Loong would step down as PM when […]
One Index The PAP Would Rather Not Be Top Of Or Would It?
The PAP take credit for Singapore’s stellar performance in many global indices and engages in various strategies to boost our […]
Former Keppel O & M Employees Arrested But As Usual PAP Connected Executives Are Left Untouched
News reports today in the State Times and other Government media said that at least six former executives of Keppel […]
State Media Attempt to Bamboozle Singaporeans Yet Again With Fake News
Singaporeans have grown used to the PAP’s media monopoly on a regular basis citing studies showing Singapore topping one or […]
Han Fook Kwang Softens the Ground for Unnecessary and Regressive Tax Increases
A couple of days ago the State Times published an article by Han Fook Kwang titled “Time to introduce a […]
Banning the Palestinian Film Radiance of Resistance is Just the Latest Example of The PAP’s Desire to Control What We Think and See
Singapore’s ban on screenings of the Palestinian film “Radiance of Resistance” has made international news. I am not really concerned […]
Staying Clean Not A Simple Matter in Some Countries
I read with amusement the letter written to the State Times by one Francis Cheng arguing that Singapore MNCs should […]
A Shocking Window Into The Institutional Corruption That Pervades Singapore Inc
Quietly over Christmas the US Justice Department announced that it had reached a deferred prosecution agreement with Keppel Offshore and […]
US Tax Reform Could Raise US GDP by 1.4%. But How Much Will It Lower Singapore’s GDP?
The Republican tax plan is now almost certain to become law by the end of this year. As I write […]
Will the fixed PE have consequences for the PAP at the next election? Somehow I doubt it
According to Tan Cheng Bok the fixing of the 2017 Presidential Election will result in consequences for the PAP at […]
Another Wayang From Our Fake News Government
Two days ago the State Times, our Government Fake News Mouthpiece, announced proudly that Singapore was rolling out its first […]
Heng Swee Keat Studied Economics With Me at Cambridge. Yet These Days He Seems to Have Forgotten Most of What He Learnt in His Eagerness to Parrot His Master
Recently I put out a blog article questioning why PM Lee needed to raise taxes, “Hey Lee Hsien Loong, Where’s […]
Tommy Koh says that Singapore inherited from the British an intolerance for nepotism and giving gifts to public officials. Really?
Well done Tommy Koh (who was a friend of my parents in the 1960s) for pointing out that Singapore has […]
More on Singapore’s Fake GDP Growth
As anyone who has studied Singapore for any length of time, as I have, much of what passes for statistics […]
Hey Lee Hsien Loong, Where’s Our Money Dude?
Every year whether it is the National Day Rally or the PAP Convention, our Dear Leeder dusts down last year’s […]
The Mystery of PM Lee’s Use of ST Aerospace’s Business Jets
Historically it has always been a bragging point of the PAP Government that the Prime Minister and his colleagues do […]
Leon Perera Is No JBJ Despite Chee’s Attack
On Thursday last state-owned Mediacorp publication Today carried a report about an exchange between Leon Perera, the WP NCMP, and […]
Master of The Moment or Master of Collusion?
I was as surprised as anyone to read that Low Thia Kiang was stepping down as SG of the Workers […]
Broadcom’s Move Back To The US Spells Trouble For The PAP’s Economic Strategy
Today the WSJ reported that Broadcom, a major semiconductor company, announced that it was moving its headquarters back to the […]
Lee Hsien Yang’s Investment Prowess Induces A Strong Sense of Deja Vu
This morning I was greeted by the heartwarming news that another Singaporean had become a billionaire, this time the CEO […]
On Its 60th Anniversary The WP Conspires with PAP to Create A Fake History
Yesterday the State Times published an Insight article on the Workers Party 60th Anniversary. A misnomer, since the article was […]
Ruling Zimbabwe from a Singapore Hospital Bed
Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Director General World Health Organisation Dear Dr Tedros, I welcome the news this morning that you […]
Appointing Mugabe as a WHO Goodwill Ambassador is Like Appointing Mao to a Similar Position at the FAO
I was disgusted to read today that the World Health Organisation (WHO) had made Robert Mugabe, the dictator of Zimbabwe, […]
The Lee Family’s Path to Exile
I find myself deeply saddened by the recent statement put out by Hsien Yang and Wei Ling posted in the […]
A Decade Too Late GIC Finally Decides to Cut Its Losses
A couple of days ago GIC announced that they had sold almost half their stake in UBS, cutting their shareholding […]
Workers Party Clearly Have No Shame Otherwise Why Do They Continue to Cynically Use JBJ’s Name Despite Abandoning Him So Callously?
I came across this post on the Workers Party Facebook page by Lee Li Lian. According to her post, during […]
Singapore Government Bullies The Economist But Fails To Refute.
How the PAP are unable to refute Justice Coles on the Amos Yee asylum case.
One Law for The Lee Family And Another For Everyone Else
Recently the Court of Appeal reserved judgement on the appeal by LKY’s two younger children, Lee Hsien Yang and Lee […]
The PAP Are Only Unhappy About Fake News When It’s Not Coming From Them
So Shanmugam said in Parliament last week that the Government is looking at new laws to deal with the problem of […]
Poor Lee Hsien Loong! He Still Cannot Get Rid of His Problems with Yes Men After All These Years
At an event at the end of February 2017, reported on by state media mouthpiece The Straits Times, Lee Hsien […]
Han Hui Hui flees to Norway! Will Roy Be Next?
I’ve just heard news that Han Hui Hui has fled Singapore to seek asylum in an unnamed European country according to […]
The Curious Question of Dr Tan Cheng Bock’s Timing
Far too late, Dr Tan has broken his silence on the Government’s changes to the Elected Presidency. Sure he has […]
An Open Letter to the President of The Association of Criminal Lawyers
29 March 2017 Dear Mr Sudheesan I respect the fact that you have many years of experience as a criminal […]
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Dear White (Racist UK Leave) People. Everything you think you know about Singapore is wrong.
On Sunday morning in the UK on a weekly BBC TV show about politics a British Conservative politician came out […]
Shock! BG Chan Chun Sing Reveals He Passed Primary School Maths
Let no one be in doubt as to the intellectual qualities of PAP’s 4th Generation Leadership! This was confirmed to […]
What Economics Can Teach Us About The Irresponsible Fiscal Policies Pursued by Germany and Singapore
It is always remarkable how much praise Singapore gets from liberal or left-leaning economists who should know better. A few […]
Singapore Does Badly in World Bank Report on Wealth of Nations
Just as you would not be able to judge the financial soundness of a company by looking at its income […]
Budget 2018: Same Old Cliches As Heng Makes Your Money Vanish in the Uniquely Singaporean Version of the Shell Game
Budget time yesterday and my first thought was that I had stepped into a time machine and been transported back […]
Will Heng Swee Keat Stop Lying About The Government’s Finances?
On Friday Sylvia Lim raised the issue of whether the Government had raised test balloons before the Budget to see […]
Dear White (Racist UK Leave) People. Everything you think you know about Singapore is wrong.
On Sunday morning in the UK on a weekly BBC TV show about politics a British Conservative politician came out […]
Discounts and Jobs For Relatives Are OK For PM Lee and His Family But Not For The GM of His Town Council
On Wednesday the GM of Ang Mo Kio Town Council, Victor Wong Chee Meng, was charged with 55 counts of […]
Shock! BG Chan Chun Sing Reveals He Passed Primary School Maths
Let no one be in doubt as to the intellectual qualities of PAP’s 4th Generation Leadership! This was confirmed to […]
What Economics Can Teach Us About The Irresponsible Fiscal Policies Pursued by Germany and Singapore
It is always remarkable how much praise Singapore gets from liberal or left-leaning economists who should know better. A few […]
We Know It’s Budget Time When State Media Put Up An Unsympathetic Family to Trick You Into Thinking PAP Government Can’t Do More
It is Budget time again and part of our good old PAP-controlled state media’s job is to prepare Singaporeans not […]
Will He Stay or Will He Go?
I for one have always been sceptical of the assumption that Lee Hsien Loong would step down as PM when […]
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