LHL’s NDR Pre-Election Broadcast: Instead of Hot Air We Need to Talk About Where the Money’s Gone
State media lost no time in branding PM Lee’s plans announced at Sunday’s National Day Rally (NDR) as “ambitious”. Well, they would say that, wouldn’t they since their whole raison […]
When You Don’t Know What To Do Claim It’s All Part of a Long Term Strategy
Any wishful thinking that the US-China trade war would soon be over was dispelled by Trump’s announcement last week of a 10% tariff, effective September 1st, on the $300 billion […]
PAP is Relaxed about Singaporean Extinction as Fertility Rate Hits All Time Low
Today the Government announced that the number of babies born last year was the second lowest on record while the fertility rate dropped from 1.16 children in 2017 to 1.14, […]
No Get Out of Jail Free Cards for LHL This Time Round
Coming right after the awful GDP figures for the second quarter (see Hey Lee Hsien Loong Dude, What’s the Plan?), the trade figures announced by Enterprise Singapore on 17 July […]
Why Temasek? As a Vehicle to Allow the Lees to Secretly Extract Money?
Temasek’s results were announced on 9 July and they were not a pretty picture. While the Board claimed a 1.5% return for the year to 31 March 2019 this was […]
Hey Lee Hsien Loong Dude, What’s Your Plan?
Today the Government announced some shockingly awful growth numbers for the second quarter of 2019. They showed the economy shrinking at a 3.4% quarterly seasonally-adjusted annualized rate from the first […]
When the Government and its Ministers and Wives Are in Business, Business Comes First Not Consumers
State-owned ( but actually Ho Ching-controlled) CNA reported yesterday on a new Bill (the Point-to-Point (P2P) Passenger Transport Industry Bill) tabled in Parliament to regulate the private car-hire industry. I […]
Why Ho Ching Must Declare Her Salary
On 1 July Malaysia’s Parliament passed a motion to require all MPs, as well as their wives and children, to declare their assets. While it has not yet been passed […]
The Myth of the Lee Family’s Public Service
Last week I published a blog post, “How Many More Years Will Go by Before We Learn How Much the Lees Have Paid Themselves While in Public Office?”https://kenjeyaretnam.com/2019/05/20/how-many-more-years-will-go-by-before-we-learn-how-much-the-lees-have-paid-themselves-while-in-public-office/. I said there […]
How Many More Years Will Go by Before We Learn How Much the Lees Have Paid Themselves While in Public Office?
I am pleased to see that Workers Party MP Png Eng Huat finally plucked up the courage and asked a question in Parliament about the remuneration of the top 3 […]
The Grossly Negligent and Callous Death of Our NS Men Must Not Go Unpunished
I have been disgusted to read about the death of NS Cpl Aloysius Pang while on a training exercise in New Zealand. The SAF were very cagey about the details […]
PM Lee’s Crackdown on Any Whiff of Dissent Finds Some Strange Targets
LHL is now suing blogger Leong Sze Hian for sharing an article from Alex Tan’s State Times Review (the name of which incidentally Alex stole from me as I was […]
Should PM Lee Be Forced to Reimburse the Taxpayer for His Wife’s Earnings at Temasek?
The civil suit against the Workers Party MPs, Low Thia Kiang, Sylvia Lim and Pritam Singh and the shareholders of FMSS will wrap up in January and February next year […]
Don’t expect what just happened in Malaysia to be repeated in Singapore
The PAP Government has always taught Singaporeans to look down on Malaysia and compare it unfavourably with our own state of economic development. Never mind the fact that Singapore was […]
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. In the article the Norwegian Finance Minister said that “Private […]
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 with no power (for criticising LHL’s slowness to fix a […]
