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		<title>Straits Times&#8217; outrageous opinion piece on homelessness</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/03/st-opinion-on-homelessness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:53:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>gangasudhan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[<b>Callan Tham</b> succinctly points out how far removed ST's Radha Basu is in declaring 'homelessness in Singapore is often the result of personal irresponsibility']]></description>
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		<title>Why the vote is not &#8216;daft&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/why-the-vote-is-not-daft/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/why-the-vote-is-not-daft/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shihan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would be a sheer waste of the vote to support the ruling party when one has grave dissatisfactions with policies or life in Singapore, says <b>Sylvia Lim</b>]]></description>
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		<title>Mandate assured … as long as PAP remains incorruptible</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/mandate-assured-%e2%80%a6-as-long-as-pap-remains-incorruptible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 04:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shihan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trulysingapore speaks.]]></description>
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		<title>Singaporeans seek asylum elsewhere</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/singaporeans-seek-asylum-elsewhere/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/singaporeans-seek-asylum-elsewhere/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 16:37:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shihan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[ben bland]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A handful of the Lion City's citizens want to abandon their homeland for less strict digs. <b>Asian Sentinel</b>]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>S&#8217;porean bride requested for wedding&#8217;s price not to be revealed because of father&#8217;s political position</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/sporean-bride-requested-for-weddings-price-not-to-be-revealed-because-of-fathers-political-position/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/sporean-bride-requested-for-weddings-price-not-to-be-revealed-because-of-fathers-political-position/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:52:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shihan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Celebrity wedding planner calls Singaporean Melissa Chin, Bridezilla. <b>NYdailynews</b>]]></description>
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		<title>A false necessity: Singapore’s maid trade</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/a-false-necessity-singapore%e2%80%99s-maid-trade/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/02/a-false-necessity-singapore%e2%80%99s-maid-trade/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:57:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shihan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much of this racist abusiveness and dehumanisation is closely related to Singaporeans’ fear and anxiety over the country’s post-colonial survival. <b> Jolene Tan </b>]]></description>
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		<title>Uniquely Singapore, F1 or F9: “Residents willing to pay more for service and conservancy”?</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/12/uniquely-singapore-f1-or-f9-%e2%80%9cresidents-willing-to-pay-more-for-service-and-conservancy%e2%80%9d/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/12/uniquely-singapore-f1-or-f9-%e2%80%9cresidents-willing-to-pay-more-for-service-and-conservancy%e2%80%9d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Andrew Loh]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leong Sze Hian and Andrew Loh The following article was first published here in TOC on the 2nd of Oct 2007. The Straits Times has a report titled &#8220;New rule to safeguard council funds&#8220;, December 2nd 2007, which addresses some of the issues in our article. In a report titled “Punggol 21 Plus masterplan [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NMP’s views at odds with AIDS relief research paper</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/10/nmp%e2%80%99s-views-at-odds-with-aids-relief-research-paper/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/10/nmp%e2%80%99s-views-at-odds-with-aids-relief-research-paper/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Oct 2007 06:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jinesh Lalwani and Choo Zheng Xi Safe sex awareness pamphlets censored as pornography. Information booths closed down for distributing “illegal” content. Awareness outreach funding stifled by choking off of charity fundraisers by homosexual groups. The government has given its repeated assurances that s377A of the Penal Code criminalizing ‘gross indecency’ between two men will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Government using hyperbole to justify public protests ban</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/10/govt-using-hyperbole-to-justify-demo-ban/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/10/govt-using-hyperbole-to-justify-demo-ban/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 02:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerald Giam The Singapore Government has once again employed the use of hyperbole to justify its near-total ban on public demonstrations, whether peaceful or not. In his letter to the Straits Times and TODAY, the deputy director at the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) cautioned that &#8220;(t)he worst race riots in Singapore history began [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TOC Feature: 377A &#8211; To prevent what harm?</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/10/377a-to-prevent-what-harm/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/10/377a-to-prevent-what-harm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2007 15:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Michael Hor Curiously, the Penal Code (Amendment) Bill of 2007, proclaimed as the result of only the second comprehensive review of Singapore’s 136 year old criminal code, is likely to be remembered more for what it did not do than for what it did. To be sure, there is much reform in the Bill, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is compulsory Longevity Insurance necessary?</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/09/is-compulsory-longevity-insurance-necessary/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/09/is-compulsory-longevity-insurance-necessary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Sep 2007 05:46:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SUMMARY (in italics, by Yeo Toon Joo, Peter): Contrary to the Manpower Minister’s protestations in parliament over CPF’s poor rates of return to members and the unpopular proposed longevity insurance scheme, the Government, if it so inclines, can ensure a good monthly pay-out for Singaporeans who live beyond 85 – without making all Singaporeans contribute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unanswered questions about CPF changes</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/08/unanswered-questions-about-cpf-changes/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/08/unanswered-questions-about-cpf-changes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 16:43:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leong Sze Hian This is in reference to media reports that the CPF Special, Retirement and Medisave accounts&#8217; rates will be modified next year. The question that may be in every Singaporean&#8217;s mind is whether the peg to &#8220;an appropriate long term bond rate&#8221; may result in a higher or lower average rate, compared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Myanmar regime belongs in the dog house</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/06/myanmar-regime-belongs-in-the-dog-house/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/06/myanmar-regime-belongs-in-the-dog-house/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2007 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gerald Giam The extension of Myanmar&#8217;s pro-democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi&#8217;s imprisonment on 27 May 2007 was a widely expected move by the country&#8217;s military government which has already kept her under detention for most of the 17 years since she won national elections by a landslide in 1990. While Indonesia, Philippines [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artificial Dynamism?</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/05/artificial-dynamism/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/05/artificial-dynamism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2007 02:59:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Ned Stark &#8220;It&#8217;s not possible for us to be hermetically sealed and to close out to the world, and this is just a jewel box by itself because our people travel, millions of people come to Singapore, and even if you don&#8217;t travel, you&#8217;re on the Internet, everything is available so we have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Tier of The First World: Beyond the Bottom Line</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/04/the-first-tier-of-the-first-world-beyond-the-bottom-line/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/04/the-first-tier-of-the-first-world-beyond-the-bottom-line/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:43:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leong Sze Hian &#38; Choo Zheng Xi Like a responsible board of directors, we may have been constantly keeping our eyes on the bottom line, obsessing over the most cost efficient solutions to build up the solidly reliable Singapore Brand. Perhaps, keeping a country together requires something more than keeping a company solvent, profitable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why&#8217;re we like that?</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/03/whyre-we-like-that/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/03/whyre-we-like-that/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Zyberzitizen It is quite depressing to hear what has been said lately – by government officials and some others – about how so many are leaving the civil service, how we must essentially seduce them with money, and how much exactly (down to the last dollar) we should be paying them to stay in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget 2007 &#8211; Changes necessary in our fiscal policy</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/budget-2007-changes-necessary-in-our-fiscal-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/02/budget-2007-changes-necessary-in-our-fiscal-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:04:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Edmund PM Lee announced in November 2006 two significant fiscal policy changes in the first parliament session after the election in May. First, the Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be increased to 7%, up from the present 5%. The GST hike by two percentage points will raise at least $1.5 billion of tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Complicity in the senseless murder of a young boy</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/01/complicity-in-the-senseless-murder-of-a-young-boy/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/01/complicity-in-the-senseless-murder-of-a-young-boy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2007 07:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Zyberzitizen Iwuchukwu Amara Tochi. Will we remember him – or even his name? Will it matter to us? Does it matter to us? Why should we care about a Nigerian who is convicted of trafficking drugs? Why should we care about him who is now dead – sentenced to die and hung by our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Singapore Swing</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2007/01/singapore-swing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from Newsweek International By Sonia Kolesnikov-Jessop Jan. 29, 2007 issue &#8211; Tiny Singapore, with its population of 4.3 million, is often lauded for the way it has embraced globalization to maximum advantage. In the last decade, the city-state has opened its doors wide to foreign investment and talent, slashed corporate taxes, offered incentives to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>After the spending frenzy comes the reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jan 2007 04:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At just about this time last year (2006), we were inundated with dizzying and mind-numbing headlines after headlines (like the Straits Times headlines on the right) of billion dollar handouts &#38; hundred-million dollar “5-year” upgrading plans, along with reports of how the economy is doing so well that recently, Minister of Manpower Ng Eng Hen [...]]]></description>
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