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		<title>The lesson of Anson and WP&#8217;s political impact on the PAP government</title>
		<link>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/the-lesson-of-anson-and-wps-political-impact-on-the-pap-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 15:45:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year was 1981. Against impossible odds, Harbans Singh of the United People&#8217;s Front threw his hat into the Anson by-election ring, together with WP&#8217;s Joshua Bin Jeyaretnam (JBJ) and the PAP candidate, with Chiam See Tong&#8217;s SDP withdrawing only on Nomination Day itself. Though Harbans Singh ultimately lost, his party UPF soon became a household [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=furrybrowndog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7054904&#038;post=3555&#038;subd=furrybrowndog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore&#8217;s $300m gift to Yale?</title>
		<link>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2012/06/07/singapores-300m-gift-to-yale/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jun 2012 08:43:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Update June 12th: Via the Straits Times, NUS and Yale has denied the $300m deal. Unfortunately the article is truncated, so we&#8217;ll have to wait till it becomes available elsewhere. Yesterday, Jim Sleeper of the Huffington Post authored a long post criticising Yale&#8217;s partnership with NUS here. The article is very lengthy, and much of [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=furrybrowndog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7054904&#038;post=3538&#038;subd=furrybrowndog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Biased reporting in the Straits Times</title>
		<link>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/biased-reporting-in-the-straits-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 May 2012 12:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>defennder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;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 the Straits Times editor in its reply to WP&#8217;s Low here. As previously written, when then MM Lee Kuan Yew slipped up [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=furrybrowndog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7054904&#038;post=3531&#038;subd=furrybrowndog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On honesty and double standards of the PAP and mainstream media</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 17:08:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>defennder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 name from the WP CEC NCMP ballot, but this appeared to have contradicted by a leaked minutes [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=furrybrowndog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7054904&#038;post=3513&#038;subd=furrybrowndog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What explains Singapore&#8217;s persistently low crime rate?</title>
		<link>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/what-explains-singapores-persistently-low-crime-rate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 09:11:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>defennder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s policies on crime, which they argued have kept Singapore as one of the safest cities in the world. But is there all there [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=furrybrowndog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7054904&#038;post=3448&#038;subd=furrybrowndog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Singapore&#8217;s stellar GDP per capita figures are unimpressive in context</title>
		<link>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/why-singapores-stellar-gdp-per-capita-figures-are-unimpressive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 16:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>defennder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics and business]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s high GDP per capita ranking is unexceptional when put into context. It&#8217;s still worth a read. The main gist of the argument (more specifically the 2nd point) [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=furrybrowndog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7054904&#038;post=3469&#038;subd=furrybrowndog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tharman&#8217;s remarks in the context of the evolving foreign talent policy</title>
		<link>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/tharmans-remarks-in-the-context-of-the-evolving-foreign-talent-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/tharmans-remarks-in-the-context-of-the-evolving-foreign-talent-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 16:41:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. Popular blogger Lucky Tan rebutted Tharman here and here, primarily by turning Tharman&#8217;s argument on its head: Tharman essentially put the cart before [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=furrybrowndog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7054904&#038;post=3459&#038;subd=furrybrowndog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The naivete of those desperate to see change where little exists</title>
		<link>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2011/10/09/the-naivete-of-those-desperate-to-see-change-where-little-exists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Oct 2011 05:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I happened to chance upon a link posted by TOC FB, to Ravi&#8217;s blog (who is TOC&#8217;s chief editor). Ravi posted a screenshot asking if a certain controversial MP had come around and learned to take criticisms in her stride. Ravi cited a Facebook post, ostensibly linked by TPL in linking to a Youtube [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=furrybrowndog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7054904&#038;post=3416&#038;subd=furrybrowndog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Some thoughts on Temasek Review and the Presidential Election</title>
		<link>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/some-thoughts-on-temasek-review-and-the-presidential-election/</link>
		<comments>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2011/09/18/some-thoughts-on-temasek-review-and-the-presidential-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 08:59:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve not written much recently, given work commitments which allows me only enough time to catch up on stories during weekdays and write on weekends. But I thought I should say something about Temasek Review. Temasek Review has been offline since 5th Sept, and there&#8217;s no word from the main site as to what happened [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=furrybrowndog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7054904&#038;post=3361&#038;subd=furrybrowndog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>George Yeo&#8217;s cryptic message reconsidered</title>
		<link>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/george-yeos-cryptic-message-reconsidered/</link>
		<comments>http://furrybrowndog.wordpress.com/2011/09/08/george-yeos-cryptic-message-reconsidered/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 13:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>defennder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is largely a speculative one. Readers who dislike rumours should ignore this. Right on the eve of Cooling-off day on 25th August, former Minister George Yeo posted this cryptic message on his Facebook wall: Here&#8217;s some context on when the message was posted. It was right after Dr Tan Cheng Bock&#8217;s rally and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=furrybrowndog.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7054904&#038;post=3376&#038;subd=furrybrowndog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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