Visit Tan Kin Lian’s blog for more. A selection is below:

1 Nov 09: Need to put things right in Singapore

10 June 09: Is Animal Farm relevant to Singapore?

10 Apr 09: Speak for those who do not have a voice

28 Feb 09 : Speech at Reform Party Budget Forum

20 Feb 09 : Respect other people’s views

7 Feb 09 : Challenges facing the alternative/ opposition parties

22 Jan 09 : Life in Singapore

27 Dec 08 : Speech at Speaker’s Corner, Hong Lim Park

26 Dec 08 : The Online Citizen - Helping Singaporeans cope with inflation

22 Dec 08 : Seasons Greeting

13 Dec 08 : Speech at forum by Society of Financial Service Professionals in conjunction with U60

12 Dec 08 : The Online Citizen – Stop Cheating

6 Dec 08 : Speech at Speaker’s Corner, Hong Lim Park

29 Nov 2008 : Speech at Speaker’s Corner, Hong Lim Park

15 Nov 2008 : Speech at Speaker’s Corner, Hong Lim Park

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We help ourselves. Don’t expect others to help

Tom Wright painted a bleak picture of Singapore’s property sector going forward at The Wall Street Journal. His article ended with the following:
“I’m yet to see the light at the end of the tunnel [for Singapore],” says Mr. Tan, the high-end broker.
We would expect people to continue to dig the dirt and tell it to [...]



Our skin isn’t as thick as it should be

The Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) organised a seminar on March 4 to discuss Singapore’s political blogosphere.  Tan Tarn How, Senior Research Fellow and Research Assistant Tan Simin presented their paper on trends observed in the blogosphere.  As reported in the TOC, the researchers identified the following limitations:

The online-offline firewall, while somewhat alleviated by offline [...]



Singapore and Lee Kuan Yew – The answer to the African problem?

Recently, I followed a thread “Democracy and Economic Growth” which started in PoliticsForum.org.   Apparently, members there often question the role of democracy in a developing nation. “During the wave of democratization in Africa during the 90s, many people had renewed hope for the continent, immediately equating newly established democracies to economic growth. Are these democracies [...]



Tell Singapore government: Ask them a question or give a suggestion

We informed people about the “Tell Singapore Government” subsite and have received some interesting reaction at some forums.
See: 3in1 Kopitiam, Sam’s Alfresco Coffee, Singapore Kopitiam, SgForums
Our responses to some of the comments are listed below. If we are not answering some other specific questions, that is because we do not know how.
 
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