THE TEMASEK REVIEW

Relief cabby Mr Teo Kian Seng was let off with only a $2,000 fine on Monday for “threatening” his PAP MP Lee Yi-Shyan. The perpetrators of such offences are usually punished with a jail term in the past. Mr Teo had gone to see Lee in March about a $100 fine slapped on his mother who is working as a rag-and-bone... 

Barely a week after making his latest “forecast” about the future of Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort, PAP strongman and Singapore’s foremost “forecaster extraordinarie” Lee Kuan Yew has dispensed his usual “pearls of wisdoms” to his subjects again. Speaking at a dialogue hosted... 

In an extensive interview with the Chinese paper Lianhe Zaobao, PAP Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan revealed that he has thought of retirement after his heart bypass surgery to take a life a bit more slowly. “At that time, I was thinking, perhaps I can retire like that and use my remaining time to enjoy natural scenery.... 

By Madeleine Coorey from Agence France-Presse, 29 June 2010 New Prime Minister Julia Gillard signalled a change in the government’s approach to population growth on Sunday, saying she did not believe in a “big Australia”. Gillard, a former lawyer who wrested leadership of the Labor Party and the government... 

A massive outcry has erupted over the suspected dual citizenship of Singapore PR Supriya Sule who is incidentally a Member of Parliament (MP) in India. She is also the daughter of feared Indian politician Sharad Pawar. The Bombay High Court ordered the Maharashtra government and the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) to decide... 

In the past, the minorities in Singapore often feels marginalized as companies often seek job candidates who are ‘Bilingual’ which, in Singapore, is a colloquial term for ‘Chinese-Speaking’. The suspicion they had about Companies employing based on racial profile have always been dismissed by the ruling party and... 

作者:冀居·谢 尚书曰：口惠而实不至，怨灾及其人。 【林双吉】 报纸说陆路交通管理局待完成樟宜地铁车厂保安疏漏事件的调查后，将决定是否对负责经营樟宜车厂的SMRT企业施加惩罚。 说明这是个没担待的政府，也不是与民协商的政府，他们单方面一槌定音要恶惩SMRT的保安疏失，不过是为了替自己开罪，连主流媒体问的一个最简单问题都没法回答：如果进去的不是涂鸦客，而是恐怖分子呢？ 【李显龙】 总理先生应该解释的是历史遗留下来的问题。话说1999年有个环境部工程师在乌节下水道竣工的当儿对《新报》记者说：“乌节从此不淹水。”环境与水源部或者总理公署要收回吗？是谁给了我们不切实际的期望？难道李显龙认为行动党政府及其代言人讲的都是屁话，不值得认真？ 此外，一年一度的新加坡热卖季是旅游当局主催的促销活动，现在乌节路的商家因人为的水患不但没赚到钱反而还亏了一大笔，政府期望商家本身和保险公司吃死猫，一点不提国赔，后继的回响应该也要计算一下，别口惠而实不至了。 【李光耀】 最近我接触一份退休华文教师的回忆文件，才悟出战后为何华校会达到空前的盛况。在二战之前，本地华人基本上分为两种，一种是高等的海峡殖民地华人，一种是平民... 

Despite the obvious fault of the PAP in its failure to anticipate the massive flooding last week, Singaporeans are blamed again for the PAP’s screw-up. The flooding at Orchard Road and various parts of Singapore caused millions of dollars in damages, but till today, nobody has accepted responsibility or apologize... 

About 50 percent of the nursing staff at Singapore public hospitals are foreigners, a significant proportion of which are from China. It appears that besides China nurses, Singaporeans will be getting more China doctors soon. According to a Lianhe Zaobao report yesterday, the Ministry of Health (MOH) had recruited 16 medical... 

TODAY (Jun 21) really sets me thinking. I refer to P N Balji’s commentary “New mood, a reality check for bosses” and Second Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam’s split-hairs semantics in “SMRT is responsible, says Shanmugam”.    Mr Balji wrote “In just one month, Singapore has...