Desmond Lee, It is the PAP Which Needs to Be Transparent.
The newspaper your party controls, The Straits Times, was also quick to report that I am gay, to use that as a means to attack my character, in the hope that you can cause antagonism against me.. Then may Singaporeans just as well ask, ���Surely Singaporeans are entitled to know��� what the PAP has done with our Central Provident Fund (CPF)?.. In 2001, your ex-prime minister Lee Kuan Yew denied that the PAP government takes our CPF to invest in the GIC.
If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: National Day Rally.
By Lydia Lim, The Straits Times, 27 Aug 2012. THE future is for Singaporeans to create and the Prime Minister has called on everyone to help chart a new, clear direction for the country and to help make the future they want happen. In his ninth National Day. Key to giving hope is the creation of opportunities, and the Government will do its part through education, which Mr Lee said was the most important long-term investment in our people. He announced 3,000��.
Yoong Siew Wah ��� Former ISD Director | Jess C Scott.
(2) ���Genuine pundits cannot help feeling that all [of PM Lee Hsien Loongs] vociferous utterances of fictional inspiration to his followers could be a fig-leaf to hide his fear of a backlash to his partys chances at the next election before 2017. The never-say-die.. So how can one run away from the impression that the mainstream media (MSM) is an all embracing propaganda organ of the PAP Government, of which The Straits Times is a prominent member.��� (Singapore��.
Learning to Love Singapore | South Writ Large
No, Ive been here long enough���long enough to know what makes Singapore such a model of good government, long enough to understand why its.. Singapore is exactly halfway around the world; 12 hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time.. There are lots of little children, all behaving very well. The food offered ranges from a few Asian things which dont tempt me first thing in the am to some more familiar stuff. Great juice. But no decaf coffee. Never? I ask the lovely servers.
Rush Limbaugh strikes back at Robin Williams critics
Conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh slammed the ���low-rent,��� left-wing media Wednesday for taking his remarks on Robin Williams suicide out of context. ���All of these low-rent, despicable, irresponsible, pathetic, so-called media watchdogs on the.
Hafeez Contractor to be consulted for central educational institutes design
New Delhi, Jan 2 (PTI) Noted architect Hafeez Contractor will be consulted to put in place a model architectural plan for setting up of central educational institutes like IITs and IIMs in the country. Suggestions of software giant Infosys will also be.
Lee Hsien Loongs Swearing in Speech in 2004: We Should.
10 years ago, when Lee Hsien Loong was sworn in as prime minister of Singapore in 2004, he gave a speech, Lets Shape Our Future Together.. It is time we help the PAP to become wiser.. Since then, I have served in the government with Mr Goh for 20 years... Our years in school and national service, our shared joys and sorrows, our attachment to familiar places, our bonds with family and friends ��� all these reinforce our sense of being one Singapore family.
If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: PM Lees National.
PMs old SAF friend. By Goh Chin Lian and Matthias Chew, The Straits Times, 27 Aug 2012. THREE Sundays ago, during the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was going around the tables at a break fast session in Teck Ghee when a. Last night, Ms Mai, whose family is in Ho Chi Minh City, said Singaporeans can help foreign students to integrate by being more understanding of the difficulties they face being away from home.
2015: What to watch for in Sheboygan County
As for fundraising, the United Way has loosened up the timeline of its annual campaign in an effort to be flexible enough to accommodate major donors and corporations whenever their best giving time happens to be.. building on Eigth Street.
The problem with Little League: Adult aspirations
Like a lot of people, Ive been saddened to read how the Jackie Robinson West Little League team in Chicago had give up its national championship because adults manipulated boundaries to assemble the best players.
If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: Ask PM Lee forum.
The Prime Minister said his Government is working on pushing the retirement and re-employment age for Singaporeans. We are working towards helping people to work longer, because we are all living longer and we would��.
Yale Has Gone to Singapore, But Can It Come Back? | Jim.
Theres more than a little ambiguity in the word responsive here, for Singapores government responds with alacrity and energy to any hint of public protest... years, wrote a Yale student in a paper for a seminar I teach on Global Journalism, National Identities, British author Alan Shadrake was sentenced on defamation charges for criticizing the countrys use of capital punishment; and the New York Times group was forced to apologize to Prime Minister Lee Kuan��.
Interview with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong - If Only.
SINGAPORE has come a long way in the last 50 years, but this milestone should be seen less as a final destination than a springboard to an even better future, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong... If you ask the opposition parties - whether it is the Workers Party or the Singapore Democratic Party - nobody says Vote for me, I will form the government, I will be the prime minister, I will run this place better. Hence it. By Fiona Chan, The Straits Times, 16 Jan 2015.
Lee Hsien Loongs 10 years as PM - If Only Singaporeans.
BEFORE he became prime minister, Mr Lee gave The Straits Times an interview where he spoke about making Singapore a dynamic economy and building a vibrant, cohesive society. Is Singapore today a dynamic��.
Tackle roots of extremism to counter ISIS, says PM Lee
We have a little bit of experience on this because we have been working on detainees who we picked up after Sept 11, 2001, who were connected to Al-Qaeda and who were planning several terrorist attacks in Singapore, he said. Dr Rohan Gunaratna, a.
More of Barry Spurrs racist emails emerge
More racist and misogynistic emails that were allegedly sent and received by Sydney University poetry and poetics professor Barry Spurr have emerged since he was suspended from work on Friday. The new emails have been leaked by online news website .
PM Lee asks families to bond - with a little help from Government
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, accompanied by his wife Ho Ching, greeting his ministerial colleagues via a video-link to the Cabinet room at the Istana yesterday. Mr Lee will spend the Chinese New Year break recuperating from prostate cancer surgery .
Empower schools to impose discipline
I FULLY agree with Mr Trent Ng Yong En that the recent court order for a teacher to do community service for dragging a boy out of a class sends the wrong signal (Ruling may instil fear in teachers; last Saturday). These days, many parents have.
Coyote goes out in style at star-filled concert
Toby Keith, Little Big Town, Justin Moore, Jake Owen, Chris Young and Sugarlands Kristian Bush led the way among the 14 performers, while video tributes came from the likes of Kenny Chesney, George Strait, Eric Church, Keith Urban, Jason Aldean.
What (not) to look forward to in 2015
The Syrian battlefield is very complicated, with alliances coming and going in a country of dozens of factions that spend as much time fighting each other as they do Bashar Assad. Military victory for the government or its opponents is as unlikely in.
Watchdog plays down migrants impact
Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) board member Stephen Nickell told MPs that new arrivals had held down unskilled wages to some extent but the overall impact was marginal and the NHS would be in dire straits without migrant staff.. Asked.
Jandamp;K Governor invites PDP, BJP to form Government
On Friday, the Governor NN Vohra had asked both the BJP and the PDP asking them to submit their proposals on forming the Government. However, it is being reported that BJP is expected to ask for some more time to stitch together numbers. According to .
Make in India needs Innovations and Entrepreneurship
Same day, PM Modi and Arun Jaitley addressed a Make in India national workshop on ease of doing business in India. The focus of the workshop was to push for manufacturing and innovation as part of the Make in India programme. Government and .
Bankers hold extensive discussions to draw reform blueprint
Pune, Jan 2 (PTI) To revitalise state-owned financial institutions, over 100 bankers and experts held extensive discussions here today at the bankers retreat Gyan Sangam to draw a reform blueprint to be presented to Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
NUSS 60th Anniversary Lecture and Dialogue with PM Lee
By Zakir Hussain, The Straits Times, 4 Oct 2014.. While the Government of late has been lauded by people for ���showing more heart rather than head���, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said yesterday that Singapore must not shy away from hard-headed policies when it comes to tackling.. He brought up how young people in China - where life has been improving faster than nearly anywhere else in the world, at any time in human history - feel pressured and anxious.
If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: IPS Forum on CPF.
Yesterday, Mr Tharman said the Government has plans to provide greater security in retirement, especially for lower-income Singaporeans, help retirees meet their basic needs even as costs go up over time, and help the current generation of older folk to.. Blogger Roy Ngerng, who is facing a defamation suit for alleging that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had misappropriated CPF funds, also asked about the GICs role in managing CPF funds at yesterdays forum.
Brad Paisley, Carrie Underwood plan CMA laughs
He knows George Strait will chuckle and last year, following the sexting joke with Keith Urban , Urban kept playing along ��� all night long. I kept getting lewd sexts from Keith Urban, Paisley laughs. He kept saying, What time? Where are we going.
Government Does Not Invest Our CPF in GIC? - The Heart.
A few days later, Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong said, ���Some people say���Government wants cheap. However, in 1983, The Straits Times had reported that, ���The CPF ��� provided a cheap source of finance for the government. The CPF... But if you are broke and start asking the government for hands-out and our tax monies are spent on helping you instead of building infrastructure, healthcare and stuff, then it becomes my business. But of course, im��.
Mersane Warria mother of children stabbed to death in Cairns arrested for.
Raniet - a Torres Strait name - said Mersane Warria took her seven children to St Margarets Anglican Church a few kilometres from her home last Sunday and sat them all in a pew, holding her 18-month-old baby in her arms. We havent. The father of.
Little Stories: The Apology from PM Lee Hsien Loong
From the Straits Times today: PM says sorry over mistakes, pledges to do better. By Yen Feng PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday apologised for the mistakes under his watch in the last five years and pledged to make. He cited the escape of detained terrorist Mas Selamat Kastari and the massive Orchard Road floods as two slip-ups, and also acknowledged that the Government could have moved faster to address shortfalls in housing and public transport.
Yet another blogger threatened to be sued by the PAP leaders
See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/news/singapore/more-singapore-stories/story/pm-lee-asks-courts-decide-damages-defamation-suit-withou#sthash.5CJ0zKkV.dpuf. Updated 11 Jul 11: ���PM Lee asks. ���your government now seems to be hardening its position and going back to the old PAP reliance on a climate of fear maintained by the deployment of the famous PAP instruments of control, notably the defamation suit.��� ��� Catherine Lims An Open Letter to the��.
If Only Singaporeans Stopped to Think: PM Lee to invite.
By Goh Chin Lian, The Straits Times, 31 Jan 2014. Prime Minister.. Mr Wong is also looking forward to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong unveiling the details of the Governments planned Pioneer Generation Package to help seniors with health-care costs... IMPORTANCE OF FAMILIES. Chinese New Year is a time to strengthen our family bonds. Families are the foundation of a cohesive, harmonious society. Our families anchor our identity and sense of belonging.