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After GE 2001 copied  and commented on PM Lee's promises for the new term. Here, I copy the post GE 2011 speech and promises to review in 2016. Let's wait and see... ---------------------------------------------------------------- SPEECH BY PRIME MINISTER LEE HSIEN LOONG AT THE SWEARING-IN CEREMONY HELD IN THE STATE ROOM, ISTANA ON 21 MAY 2011 Mr President Ministers and Members of Parliament

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“Nice. Wonder how much extra we will collect today,” wondered Alex with a smile on his face, as he sipped from his cup of coffee.      It was 7.10 am on a Tuesday, and Alex – who monitors traffic in a huge room full of computer screens – had just seen a 16-wheeler come to grief, with a flat front tyre, on Lane 5 of the Benjamin Sheares Bridge.      “Maybe they’ll give us a better bonus,”

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Soon there will be a new stored-value card that will combine the features of the existing CashCard, used now mostly in cars, and the EZ-Link card, used now in buses and trains. The new card is expected to be introduced shortly and to be used widely by 2010.Its advent is being sold by its creators, and reported in the media as a (wholly) positive development. The proclaimed benefits include being

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Recently, while driving back from work, I was listening to a song by Neil Young, called Helpless. It can be found in numerous albums, including originally in one called Déjà Vu. This was produced back in the days of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, in the 1970s.You can hear it performed here. The first verse caught my attention:There is a town in north Ontario,With dream comfort memory to spare,

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A young doctor was jailed a few days ago (The Straits Times, June 8) for possession of drugs. The short story of how it happened is that undercover officers from the Central Narcotics Bureau had chatted him up on the Internet, and knowing his homosexual preferences, asked him if he had wanted some three-way “fun” and also if he had drugs.According to a follow-up report (ST, June 9), the doctor

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A straw poll done by The New Paper finds that cost of living and jobs are the most important election issues. These items are cited by more than 60 per cent of 150 people as those about which they have strong feelings.When the PAP’s Eric Low does a survey of 12,000 people in Hougang, interim and lift upgrading are among the top desirables, together with better transportation.A Straits Times

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At his swearing-in ceremony on May 30, PM Lee Hsien Loong gave an outline of what he saw as the challenges for Singapore and what his government would do to meet them. His speech, available on the Internet here, can be seen as a summary of promises to be delivered, post GE 2006.It was overall a non-partisan speech of which deserves the support of the people in what it aims to do. But some of what

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If you allow opposition into Parliament, you will send the wrong signal to investors and drive them away. The PAP sometimes takes this line and, in GE 2006, I saw it once in the newspapers and heard it again at a forum I attended recently at the National University of Singapore Society.The gist of the argument seems to be: Opposition in Parliament will introduce political instability. Foreign

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Recently, my daughter came home from school and asked: “Are we really Christians? My friend said we are Catholics so we are not Christians”. Aaaargh! That one again. And she goes to a Catholic school.Now I am not a religious person; but I was so angry. Catholics know they are Christians, so you can guess who the ignorant are, who are spreading their disease.I gave her the facts: There are two

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During the GE 2006 period, many Internet sites questioned the objectivity of the mainstream mass media and criticised the PAP’s arguments.Their independent reports on election rallies constituted ballast, to offset the perceived partialness of the mainstream media towards the PAP. But ballast is, by necessity, weighted to one side. I won’t say more here, beyond that if the mainstream mass media

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Some years ago, I happened to write a report on local blogging for a newspaper. I read several local blogs, met a few bloggers and, to verify my instructions to readers on how to start a blog, actually created one here at blogspot by the same name. It had just one entry, a one-liner to complete the process.Then came the Iraq war and I was fascinated by Salam Pax the blogger who gave us a

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This is my very first post. I wonder where it will go from here.

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