Zeng Guoyuan’s bird abusing the police

Posted on May 16, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Zeng Guoyuan not contesting Hougang by-election’, 16 May 2012, article in Today online Retired acupuncturist Zeng Guoyuan, who collected the political donation certificate, is not contesting the Hougang by-election. According to Mr Zeng, he was disqualified because he was fined in 2008 for a public offence. It involved the use of vulgarities when police [...]

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PM Lee on Facebook is cute

Posted on April 21, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘PM Lee starts Facebook page and it already has thousands of ‘likes’, 21 April 2012, article in Today online. Some eight hours after launching his official Facebook page and Twitter account yesterday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s site… attracted over 17,000 “likes” as of 11.45pm yesterday. …The Prime Minister said “many” of his colleagues [...]

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Children getting maimed by escalators

Posted on March 31, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ’4-year-old’s hand torn after being pushed down MRT escalator’, 31 March 2012, article in asiaone.com A four-year-old boy was pushed down the escalator at Ang Mo Kio MRT station, causing his left hand to get caught in the escalator and badly injuring it. The news first broke when Ms Visa Lee, who put up [...]

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NYC winning Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize

Posted on March 22, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘NYC gets Lee Kuan Yew Prize’, 22 March 2012, article in Today. New York City has been awarded the prestigious Lee Kuan Yew World City Prize this year, after beating more than 60 nominations from all over the world. The prize was awarded yesterday to the Mayor of New York City Michael Bloomberg, and [...]

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Parent volunteers doing ridiculous things for Phase 2B registration

Posted on February 26, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Parents slam MOE scheme’, 25 Feb 2012, article in insing.com Parents feel that the volunteer scheme in the primary one registration process should go. In a radio survey carried out by Lianhe Wanbao on radio FM100.3, most listeners feel that the government should scrap the parent volunteer scheme. …The scheme has so far drawn [...]

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PAP taking their time to call for by-election

Posted on February 25, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘No automatic by-election in our model of parliamentary democracy’, 24 Feb 2012, Voices, Today (Hri Kumar Nair, PAP MP for Bishan-Toa Payoh): Assistant Professor Eugene Tan’s commentary “The value of a by-election” (Feb 20) argued that the Prime Minister does not have an unfettered discretion in deciding when to call a by-election and that [...]

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TR Emeritus vs the Lees

Posted on February 23, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Lee Hsien Yang send lawyer’s letter to TR Emeritus’, 23 Feb 2012, article in asiaone.com Another laywer’s letter has been sent to editor of TR Emeritus (TRE), Mr Richard Wan, on Tuesday. This time, it is from the chairman of Fraser and Neave (F&N), Mr Lee Hsien Yang. Mr Lee is also the brother of [...]

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Khaw Boon Wan hammers WP’s sudden U-turn

Posted on February 16, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘Come clean with the people, WP: Khaw’, 16 Feb 2012, article by Wong Jiahui Alicia, Today Shortly after the Workers’ Party (WP) announced its decision to expel Mr Yaw Shin Leong, People’s Action Party (PAP) chairman Khaw Boon Wan turned up the heat on the opposition party yesterday, questioning its “sudden U-turn” on the [...]

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PM Lee’s heir not apparent

Posted on January 28, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘PM Lee does not see his children joining politics’, 28 Jan 2012, article in asiaone.com Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the son of Singapore’s founding father Lee Kuan Yew, said on Thursday that he does not think that his children will enter politics. “They will have to decide but if you ask me now I [...]

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Yaw Shin Leong and the Other Opposition woman

Posted on January 26, 2012 by gdy2shoez

From ‘No comment on ‘affair’ rumours’, 26 Jan 2012, article by Melvin Singh, TNP IT HAS not been a happy new year so far for the Workers’ Party MP for Hougang, Mr Yaw Shin Leong, who has become the subject of a raging online firestorm. Allegations about his personal life were posted online last Friday [...]

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