THE TEMASEK REVIEW

After watching the National Day Rally 2010 for the 3rd time, I am very positive of how insecure PM Lee is feeling right now. This is probably what you get for having an educated people empowered with worldly knowledge no thanks to the Internet. PM Lee is really clueless. Yes, he is aware of the rising unhappiness, but he... 

PAP inherently is not evil but why is there raucous negativity, skepticism and insolence towards PAP? Why is trust bestowed upon them is in question? Perhaps, the answer lies in the Psyche of PAP: Invoking the proverbial fairy-tale recitation, “Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the best (fairest) of us all’, PAP see... 

The PAP government is unable to define what a real ‘foreign talent’ is. The term itself is rubbish. The top-tier ‘talent’ of any country, its crème de la crème will never leave their homeland for a place like Singapore. Those who leave for Singapore, be they long-term talents or transiting ones, hoping to use... 

I read with amusment and contempt at the latest announcement of PM Lee’s decision to give $9000 to every male Singaporean who have completed his National Service liabilities as a distorted and twisted means of appeasing the local population in a feeble attempt to placate the locals and assuring them that Singaporeans’... 

The Straits Times, the government propaganda mouthpiece, as expected, has been giving glowing news coverage to the Youth Olympic Games(YOG). But true to its colour, it chose to withhold incidents of inferior food supply to the thousands of volunteers and consequent food poisoning among some of them from its reporting. The... 

Singaporeans are too arrogant and naive to think that the main reason for the massive influx of Chinese PRC and Indians into Singapore is to artificially inflate the GDP and thus allowing the PAP ministers to get salary bonuses. This may be true — but I do not think it is the main reason for the influx. For one thing,... 

I’m taking out the new figures for senior civil servants and political appointees from the speech by Mr Teo Chee Hean. All figures quoted are annual salaries (inclusive of all bonuses and allowances). President – $3,187,100 (24.9% increase) Prime Minister – $3,091,200 (25.5% increase) Senior Minister – $3,043,300... 

OPINION During a discussion on our Facebook,  a netizen compared the contrasting styles between opposition leaders Chee Soon Juan and Low Thia Kiang, claiming that the public sees the latter as a more credible politician than the former. “Take the case of CJS vs GOV, that guy keeps barking nonstop at anything and... 

The purpose of my contextual analysis was to present PM Goh in his own words. It was not to say whether the PM Goh administration was right or wrong. From 1990 to 2004, PM Goh publicly made it clear his aims and views. However people continued to see PM Goh as a transitional leader while blaming PM Lee for the problems... 

It will not be an exaggeration to say that Singaporeans woke up today to the mind-boggling news of the National Day award of the Distinguished Service Order to the Chairman, PUB Mr. Tan Gee Paw ostensibly for solving Singapore’s perennial flood problems. Singaporeans cannot be faulted for not believing that the DSO...