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Why 1-hour and spot PSI/PM10/PM2.5 readings matter 24 Jun 2013 | 08:29 pm
I have seen a number of arguments against mandating the reporting of hourly spot PSI or PM10/PM2.5 concentration levels. One popular argument typically goes that spot readings fluctuate wildly and ca...
On foreign standards for air quality reporting 23 Jun 2013 | 09:58 pm
Recently the blog The Heart Truths published a post questioning if statements made by minister Vivian Balakrishnan that Singapore is probably the only country which reports 3-hourly average PSI with m...
The lesson of Anson and WP’s political impact on the PAP government 24 Jan 2013 | 08:45 pm
The year was 1981. Against impossible odds, Harbans Singh of the United People’s Front threw his hat into the Anson by-election ring, together with WP’s Joshua Bin Jeyaretnam (JBJ) and the PAP candida...
Singapore’s $300m gift to Yale? 7 Jun 2012 | 04:43 pm
Update June 12th: Via the Straits Times, NUS and Yale has denied the $300m deal. Unfortunately the article is truncated, so we’ll have to wait till it becomes available elsewhere. Yesterday, Jim Sleep...
Biased reporting in the Straits Times 31 May 2012 | 12:48 am
I’m not sure what to make of counter protests by the Straits Times and its apologists that it reported the Hougang by-election coverage objectively and dispassionately. Yes those are the words used by...
On honesty and double standards of the PAP and mainstream media 24 May 2012 | 05:08 am
Png Eng Huat, the WP candidate for MP in the Hougang By-election 2012 recently came under fire when DPM Teo Chee Hean said WP was not being truthful. Png had earlier said that he had taken out his nam...
What explains Singapore’s persistently low crime rate? 10 May 2012 | 09:11 pm
Why does Singapore have one of the lowest crime rates in the world? What is responsible for such a phenomena? Of course the usual PAP establishment apologists attribute this to the government’s polici...
Why Singapore’s stellar GDP per capita figures are unimpressive in context 10 May 2012 | 04:00 am
Update: Amended the title just to be more specific with the content of the article. Some time ago I wrote this post explaining why I felt that Singapore’s high GDP per capita ranking is unexceptional ...
Tharman’s remarks in the context of the evolving foreign talent policy 11 Apr 2012 | 04:41 am
Recently, Finance Minister Tharman stirred up a ruckus when he defended the foreign talent scheme by citing how Taiwanese wages had flattened over the last decade due to its closed door policy. Popula...
The naivete of those desperate to see change where little exists 9 Oct 2011 | 05:25 pm
So I happened to chance upon a link posted by TOC FB, to Ravi’s blog (who is TOC’s chief editor). Ravi posted a screenshot asking if a certain controversial MP had come around and learned to take crit...
