Will PM Lee Finally Come Clean at NDR 2021 and Admit His Government’s Policies for 40 Years Have Been a Failure?
We have been given a preview of LHL’s National Day Rally speech when Lawrence Wong gave an interview to the BBC a week ago. (The BBC should be given the […]
Why Is Temasek So Massively Overexposed to Chinese Regulatory and Market Risk?
The last few days have seen a savage sell-off in Chinese tech stocks that has wiped hundreds of billions of dollars off their market capitalisation. The Hang Seng Technology Index […]
Why the Greedy Gullibility of Temasek’s General Counsel Should Ring Alarm Bells
Yesterday I read the astonishing news that Temasek’s General Counsel, Pek Siok Lan, had apparently blown $5.5 m in a fraudulent nickel trading scam. This immediately raises several concerns. First […]
Racist Poly Lecturer Only Expressed LKY’s Views on Racial Intermarriage
Why do I feel that the Government’s condemnation of the Ngee Ann Polytechnic lecturer for his racist tirade against a Singaporean interracial couple (Indian/Filipino and Chinese/Thai), was only lukewarm? Not […]
Farce of Twelve Cupcakes Prosecution Sends a Clear Message from MOM: Crime Pays But Protecting Singapore Workers Doesn’t
Today I read that the founder of Twelve Cupcakes, Daniel Ong, had been fined $65,000 for breaching employment laws for underpaying his S Pass holders. His ex-wife Jaime Teo was […]
Lee Hsien Loong Wants Foreign Interference in SIngapore Politics As Long As It Helps To Keep Him in Power
I was amused but not surprised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’s hypocritical statement yesterday about the co-hosting by the US Embassy of a webinar on LGBTQI rights with local […]
Orwell’s 1984 Is Alive and Well in Lee Hsien Loong’s Singapore
William Gibson, the iconic American science fiction writer famously described Singapore in 1993 as “Disneyland with the Death Penalty” in an essay he wrote for Wired magazine. (In 2013 I […]
As Singapore Heads Into Another Lockdown, the Government’s Failure To Provide Enough Stimulus Is Hurting Our Citizens
In my analysis of Budget 2021, I criticised Heng Swee Keat’s failure to provide enough stimulus and warned that SIngaporeans would pay the price. I said that while Heng projected […]
Shanmugam Says “Singapore Will Fail If Racism and Xenophobia Take Root” Directly Contradicting LKY’s Theory That Racial Superiority Was the Main Reason for Singapore’s Success
Singapore’s leaders were absolutely right to condemn the racist attack against an Indian Singaporean last week. LHL said on Facebook that the attack “goes against everything that our multiracial […]
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