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“You owe it to your country to serve”
Alan Greenspan, the retired Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, US, published an interesting autobiography, “The Age of Turbulence”, recently. I am halfway through the book, but came across an interesting quote that I feel that I should blog about. … Continue reading
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包容性社会？优雅社会？
工人党计划在九月九日在东海岸公园举办一个简单的脚踏车活动 。作为奉公守法的政党，循正常程序申请准证是理所当然的。让人失望的是，警方却拒绝了这项申请。 林瑞莲昨天在国会上询问警方为何拒绝工人党的申请，何炳基副教授竟然以：“可能出现破坏环境，导致骚乱、难控制的局面” 为理由，非常没有说服力地回绝了林瑞莲的问题。 在2006年的大选，工人党群众大会在竞选的九天里每夜都风雨不改地举行，出席的民众少说也有几万人。在竞选期间人心沸腾时刻，人们都能保持和平、秩序，在在证明了新加坡人的理智。如果说是政党欲在举行游行一类的活动，还可以明白警方的顾虑。但现在是一个不但能强身健体，更是老少咸宜的踏脚车活动，如果也有同样的顾虑，那就未免太过杞人忧天了吧！ 说要建立富包容性的社会，也破例在国庆群众大会上邀请反对党议员出席，那为什么不能包容政党的活动呢？ 更值得一提的是，何炳基副教授在后来的回答时，竟然有这样一段：“请刘先生听清楚了，我希望他没忘了戴上助听器” 这样的当面人身攻击，实在让人怀疑新加坡是不是真的能够达到优雅社会的目标。在国会上公然调侃议员，问问各位看官优雅吗？ 早报报道：政党户外活动可能引起骚乱 工人党申请脚踏车活动被拒 其他报道： http://wp-in-parliament.blogspot.com/ 存档链接: http://www.clipclip.com/choongyong.koh/clips/detail/29750
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CPF interest rate increases, what about HDB concessionary loan rate?
From HDB The HDB concessionary loan rate is pegged at 0.1% above the prevailing CPF interest rate. Now CPF interest rate is going to be increased to 3.5%, does this mean that the HDB concessionary loan rate will also be … Continue reading
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72 million dollars deficit!
This article appeared in Straits Times Forum page on 18 Apr 2007: E-disc savings will help defray HDB deficit I REFER to the letter, ‘Charge less for parking with e-discs’ (ST, April 4), by Mr Eric Lim Cheng Wah. The … Continue reading
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Reverse the logic, and it makes more sense
Today in Straits Times Forum there is an article entitled “State-funded pension means higher taxes” (link is to an archived copy of the article, ST expires its article regularly). I happened to do some research previously on Singapore Ministers being … Continue reading
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Singapore Government sites that are not standards compliant
It is really frustrating when you think that you can throw away your Microsoft IE browser, only to have a government website proclaiming to you that it will not support your favourite FireFox browser. Starting a list here for those … Continue reading
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