Distance Based Road Pricing Road congestions are caused by usage not ownership. As an illustration, a person owns five cars but he can only drive one at any one point in time as opposed to five individuals owning the same five cars, all driving at the same time. That being the case, traffic control should be directed at usage rather than ownership....
Xi Jinping’s Taiwan ambition threatens China’s rise? I read with interest and puzzlement about the illogical rationale of the Commentary, “Xi Jinping’s Taiwan ambition threatens China’s rise” (TODAY, May 16).
Former Chinese President Deng Xiaoping’s advice, “Hide Your brightness, bide your time” is perfectly fitted and applicable to China’s continued economic...
Press Release of People's Alliance Over the years, Singaporeans have clamored for a United Opposition to take on the ruling People’s Action Party.
These calls have magnified in recent years given the deteriorating conditions of life Singaporeans find themselves in. Whether it is the excruciating cost of living, unaffordable property prices or job insecurity,...
Black and White Much of what has been written on Ridout and the Black and White houses is incorrect - and understandably so as very few members of the public live in one.
This is because the SLA manages 500 or so units, of which many are reserved leases (American military in Sembawang, British Council in Dover), commercial leases or...
Some stats to chew on At the start of the pandemic, they said all will be taken care off regardless.
Then they started to make daily living more difficult for anyone who were cautious and chose not to take the experimental shots.
There was a time when entire complexes for essential goods and services were bordered up. Anyone who wanted...
Why are young athletes dropping like flies? Young athletes all over the world are dropping like flies, except in Singapore of course.
"Medical misadventure"?
What do you think?
Twitter was silencing opinions from medical experts on Covid-19 Before Elon Musk bought Twitter, the company was supposedly helping the governement censor expert medical opinion and advice to enable the government to push through its deadly vaccine mandates.
Before Elon Musk, Twitter even denied the government's own data to ensure that the vaccine mandates were "politically...
Upgrading of advertising networks (Oops) The testing/upgrading has been completed on April 24, but there was a slight hiccup in that our techie accidentally set the caching for the website to "manual" and forgot to switch it back to "auto" after running some tests.
Due to the above, the website's cache system was not refreshed with the latest articles and...
Kicked out of the university lecture Subject: Legal studies.
First lecture.
The professor enters the lecture hall.He looks around.
"You there in the 8th row. Can you tell me your name?" he asks a student.
"My name is Sandra" says a voice.
The professor asks her, "Please leave my lecture hall. I don't want to see you in my lecture."
Everyone...
Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia - never,’ says... I refer to The Straits Times Opinion, “‘Ukraine will never be a victory for Russia - never,’ says Biden in Poland” (Feb 22) and “Ukraine crisis could get worse before it gets better: Vivian” (ST, Feb 22).
The Ukraine war is already in progress for one year, and whether how long it would last?, in a great...
The Senseless Policy Of Qualifying Salaries For Foreigners I refer to the Qualifying salaries for Spass, EP and others and the "minimum qualifying salaries" implemented rules by MOM (LINK)
I cant help notice the flaw of this policy. The have set a minimum wage model for the foreigners in the hope of discourging companies to hire more locals. In the first place such a scheme...
Oxleygate Karmic View Pinky is surely interested in the house, Fengshui reason or using it to milk old man legacy to remind Singaporeans repeatedly but he is not going to be explicit. He may appear not to be involved but unless you have low IQ, you can see through the mist to understand who is the invisible hand who ordered the committee and...
Are we dumb or what? We were told in Singapore, 76 per cent of respondents said they trust their government — the highest among the list of institutions provided in the latest edition of the survey, and matching the highest score in terms of trust in government in the Republic since the inception of the survey.
This is something I am not...
Iris Koh is now officially representing Singapore? Dear TR Emeritus
Came across this on Facebook.
The way that it is captioned and phrased (even in the video), it would appear to me that she is officially representing the "Republic of Singapore".
What do you think?
Puzzled Reader
Made a fugitive by my own country Singapore - My Country
I am heart-broken that I have been made a fugitive by my own country, for standing up for a promise to my father, Lee Kuan Yew.
Yet another attack has just been launched, re-litigating over again the same issues that were raised by Lee Hsien Loong after probate of Lee Kuan Yew’s will, at the...
