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Quotes - Friday, March 19, 2010 13:20 - 0 Comments
Some creative messiness, please
“But to become a great centre for the arts and culture, like New York or London, Singapore needs unbridled freedom of speech and expression, and some tolerance for the creative messiness that accompanies it.”
Dr Narain D Batra
Professor of Communication and Diplomacy
Norwich University, USA
- Singapore – no grand story to tell the world
- Global trend away from non-discretionary state killings
- What is a “procession”?
- Foyce Le Xuan makes police report
- Alex Au on what HDB flats should mean
- Transport Minister admits he’s ‘very slow’
- WP Chief Low on homelessness in First World Singapore
- Not the government’s or HDB’s fault
- Nair – the fraudster
- Sylvia Lim on GRCs
- RIP Michael Foot
- Subhas Anandan on Walter Woon stepping down
- Vivian Balakrishnan on protecting homeless children
- Low Thia Khiang on low wages
- Who is the police supposed to protect?
- Going forward
- Who pays for increase in foreign workers’ levy?
- HDB to Goh Meng Seng:
- Levy hike may hurt those in nursing homes
- Remember the Everitt family?
- Salaries increased for political appointments?
- mainstream media praised again by minister
- Rony sticks to his guns
- Lee Kuan Yew the “forecaster” – but doesn’t even know what happened last year. Property prices went down last year??
- Growth at all cost
- Tiger baby blues
- Envoy claims he was framed
- Overheard in NUS
- Yet another set of SERS flats – refurbished & to be rented out – in Boon Lay
- Stop trying to pick “winners”
- Inadequate public transport
- US govt will push harder against web censorship
- Presenting data so it tallies with objectives? Hmm….
- PAP MP says he is a man of ‘passion and purpose”
- Double-barrelled but no big impact
- 4 more ERP gantries
- Cooling off – PAP’s insecurity exposed
- Foreign workers shall not speak
- GIC stands to lose S$800 million
- PAP on online electioneering
- Romanian diplomat not returning to S’pore after all
- Fish more expensive during Chinese New Year
- Constitutionality more important than finality
- Why must pay, how to pay & pay on time
- JBJ doesn’t bend
- Doing better and better
- Naked man subdued by stun gun
- Pay $5 to go to the roof of a HDB block?
- Diplomat “now a suspect” in hit-and-run incident
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