THE TEMASEK REVIEW

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong delivered his National day rally speech on 29 Aug 10. This is SDP Secretary-General Chee Soon Juan’s respsonse. Dr Chee notes that Mr Lee ignored the problems caused by the flooding of foreigners in Singapore and how this is causing grave social and infrastructural problems for the country.    Read More →

“For a person who runs a million-dollar charitable organisation, $600,000 is peanuts as it has a few hundred millions in reserves.” – Mrs Goh Chok Tong “If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So what happens? There... 

In his zeal to impress foreigners on how efficiently and smoothly he can run the Youth Olympic Games (YOG), Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Dr Vivian Balakrishnan has been quite happy to sacrifice the daily necessities of Singaporeans. Take, for example, the temporary closure of bus-stops. The Land... 

To all TR readers, Please note that in the Singapore General Election 2006, the 66.6% of votes that went to the Pro Alien Party (ie: PAP) was only from a fraction of the registered voters that were able to cast their ballot papers. The mandate that the Pro Alien Party claimed will be laughed at when compared to the election... 

In what appears to be a step closer to the General Election, some 860 void decks or precinct pavilions have been reserved for use as polling stations. Of these, 660 have been reserved as backups, including for locations that had been earlier identified for use as polling stations such as schools and community clubs, said... 

My fellow Singaporeans, Our economy has rebounded strongly from last year’s recession, but you will not benefit from it. GDP grew 17.9% Y-on-Y in the first half of this year, so I am looking forward to an increase to my already-world’s-highest salary, which is pegged to the GDP. Many jobs have been created for my... 

This is a contributed video from our reader, Temasekboi.     They were persecuted for ‘Standing up for Singapore’.  Read More →

First, the obvious. During his 14 years as PM, Goh Chok Tong became a very well-liked politician. And, arguably, the most popular one from Singapore. How did that come about, especially when the odds were stacked against a deputy who was not his boss’ first choice to take over, a rising leader who was vilified publicly... 

译者: 新加坡文献馆 “我们将要有一个知识阶级，大约是我们现有的3倍，这将会带来动力，一个把我们往前推的强力引擎。” - 李光耀，2010年7月28日 只要看看新加坡最近的历史就可以知道李光耀的知识阶级干了些什么事。并非他人，而是由他的儿子李显龙总理领导的新加坡知识精英层，所制定的那些遭人非议的政... 

May 21, 1987, will forever remain Singapore’s own day of infamy, the day when Lee Kuan Yew, then Prime Minister, using the guise of internal security, abused its executive powers by ordering the arrest and detention of twenty-two innocent young men and women (Operation Spectrum), who were associated with the Roman Catholic...