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作者:雷风雨 当他们要建赌场的时候，媒体大肆宣传，说IR不只是赌场，赌场仅占5%。当他们想利用终止免费巴士服务来抬高自己的“道德形象”，希望借此在大选前缓和选民不满政府允建赌场的政策时，仿佛免费巴士上就是赌场。 连荣华最关心选民的福址，他首先发难，海峡时报随即粉墨登场，把RWS的免费巴士课题登在头版。RWS免费巴士服务都推出了数月，如今不过因为连荣华要在国会表达他的关怀，突然就成了头版新闻。怎么看，都像事先编好的剧本。 好戏还在后头。RWS不明究里，急于讨好政府，主动宣布将在上星期天全面终止组屋区的免费巴士服务。这一来破坏了剧情的发展，RWS抢了先机，政府没法借此... 

OPINION The latest housing rules introduced by the government appear no more but a knee-jerk response to rising public disaffection and disgruntlement at the sky-rocketing HDB prices which not only did not address the root cause of the problem, but inconvenienced and penalized middle-class Singaporeans who are keen to upgrade... 

Author: 新加坡文献馆 (Read original article HERE) Translated by Bruce Wee (a TR Reader) In the Mandarin NDP Rally speech, LHL coined a new political slogan: “Singapore Spirit”. Citing YOG as example, Singapore Chinese paper summarizes the Singapore Spirit as ‘Dare-to-do-and-be-accountable’. To such explanation,...