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		<title>Ongoing saga with Telecom Credit Cooperative</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/ongoing-saga-with-telecom-credit-cooperative/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 11:38:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leo Khaw &#8211; The Telecom Credit Cooperative is a non-profit financial institution in Singapore. On their website they describe themselves as: &#8220;TCC is a Credit Co-operative, a non-profit financial institution different from Banks and Finance Companies. You will notice that difference from the first time you step into our office or call us. Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The pioneers of Hougang</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/the-pioneers-of-hougang/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/the-pioneers-of-hougang/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 09:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Herman Yzelman &#8211; I am 60 years old now and watching this by-election brings me memories of my involvement with Hougang from 1988 to 1994. I have retired from politics since and now I lead a private and quiet life. I was inspired by Mr J. B Jeyaretnam&#8217;s political philosophy and speeches and hence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Upgrading Hougang</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/upgrading-hougang/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/upgrading-hougang/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 09:08:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Khaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Wee Nam Kee - Much of the hustings surrounding the Hougang by-election have recently been focused around the issue of Png Eng Huat&#8217;s NCMP seat. Indeed, this question raised by DPM Teo warrants a satisfactory answer from the WP, especially if it intends to live up to the values of accountability and transparency that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An Open Letter for Hougang residents, from a fellow Singaporean</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/an-open-letter-for-hougang-residents-from-a-fellow-singaporean/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/an-open-letter-for-hougang-residents-from-a-fellow-singaporean/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 08:38:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Khaw</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Commentaries]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[BY George Tan - On 26 May 2012, you have the power to create history by giving the Workers&#8217; Party and the Opposition Movement in Singapore, the highest ever votes (make it at least 95% in favor of WP) in the Hougang By-Election. You will stand tall and proud in the eyes of all Singaporeans [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Singapore politics is ‘Uniquely Singapore’?</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/why-singapore-politics-is-uniquely-singapore/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/why-singapore-politics-is-uniquely-singapore/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 08:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Khaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jackson Tan - As a young voter since 2011, I personally take the initiative to understand the politics governing the country. From direct issues such as public transport and employment to indirect issues such as education and community affairs, the implicit need to understand the environment is highly valuable. It is wrong to assume [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/teachers-are-the-one-and-only-people-who-save-nations/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/teachers-are-the-one-and-only-people-who-save-nations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 05:07:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uniquely Singapore]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[By&#160;Cheong Yaoming&#160;- &#160; According to the founder and first President of modern Turkey Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, &#8220;Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.&#8221; Despite the importance of governments in forming nation shaping policies why would President Ataturk confer such a great responsibility to teachers and not politicians? Having been a private tuition [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hougang residents, a beacon of hope and inspiration. Huat Ah!</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/hougang-residents-a-beacon-of-hope-and-inspiration-huat-ah/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/hougang-residents-a-beacon-of-hope-and-inspiration-huat-ah/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 03:22:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jen - Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, who&#39;s obviously a veteran in political tactics,&#160; has&#160; created a distraction by questioning Workers Party if it has been &#34;honest and upfront&#34;&#160; over its reply on Hougang candidate Png Eng Huat&#39;s previous candidacy for the NCMP post. And following the Piper&#39;s tune, the mainstream media played [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MARUAH Event &#8211; International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO)</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/maruah-event-international-day-against-homophobia-and-transphobia-idaho/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/maruah-event-international-day-against-homophobia-and-transphobia-idaho/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 May 2012 02:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARUAH as a human rights group stands up against homophobia as it is a prejudice that&#160;marginalises communities that have an equal right to space, decency and dignity as any other human&#160;being. The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHO) is celebrated every May 17. &#160; It is coordinated by the Paris-based &#34;IDAHO Committee,&#34; founded and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>An alternative perspective of the second WP rally</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/hougang-by-election-an-alternative-perspective-of-the-second-wp-rally/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/hougang-by-election-an-alternative-perspective-of-the-second-wp-rally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 11:11:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By&#160;Texas Hong&#160;- I was at WP&#39;s second rally of this Hougang by-election. Towards the end of it, a heavy downpour descended upon us. Singaporeans from all walks of life, young and old, men and women, stood shoulder to shoulder in the soggy field, in one of the greatest show of solidarity I have ever seen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workers’ Party balances Hougang and national issues</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/workers-party-balances-hougang-and-national-issues/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/workers-party-balances-hougang-and-national-issues/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 04:37:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[~ By&#160;Benjamin Cheah&#160;~ Desmond Choo is not independent of the People&#8217;s Action Party, his candidacy is superfluous, and has been around for only a short period of time. Png Eng Huat in Parliament would check the PAP, would improve the opposition&#8217;s standing, and has been working in Hougang since 2006. The Hougang by-election is about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Marxist Conspiracy&#8217; and the Hougang by-election</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/marxist-conspiracy-and-the-hougang-by-election/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/marxist-conspiracy-and-the-hougang-by-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2012 01:23:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Khaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One Facebooker aghast at the lack of these checks in the 1987 Parliamentary debate on the arbitrary detentions of the alleged Marxist Conspirators comments, "THIS IS WHAT GOES ON IN A PAP CONTROLLED PARLIAMENT DONT LET IT HAPPEN AGAIN…vote in WP at Hougaing…. and the others in 2016."]]></description>
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		<title>NCMPgate: A question of dubious relevance</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/ncmpgate-a-question-of-dubious-relevance/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/ncmpgate-a-question-of-dubious-relevance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 14:57:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://theonlinecitizen.com/?p=51601</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By&#160;Choo Zheng Xi&#160;~ Political pundits are asking: was the&#160;Workers&#8217; Party (WP) Mr Png Eng Huat the first, second or third best candidate the WP considered for the post of Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP)? Was Mr Png&#8217;s name on the CEC&#160;ballot ballot or not? Voters of Hougang should be asking: does any of this matter? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business as usual in Aljunied GRC</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/business-as-usual-in-aljunied-grc/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/business-as-usual-in-aljunied-grc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:27:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[~ By&#160;Cheong Yaoming&#160;~ With almost all the attention focused on Hougang SMC and the by-election, one might wonder if the elected MPs of the Workers&#39; Party (WP) would be able to keep up with their day to day duties. Here is a look behind-the-scenes at Mr Chen Show Mao&#39;s Meet the People Session held two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half time report of the Hougang by-elections</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/half-time-report-of-the-hougang-by-elections/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/half-time-report-of-the-hougang-by-elections/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 00:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[~ By&#160;Howard Lee&#160;~ Five days of hustings have passed and I am acutely aware that I have missed out on bringing news from the ground. I thought I would at least do the decent keyboard critic thing and pen down my thoughts on how I feel the campaigning is going so far. Judging by media [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SMRT Bus Service Drivers Blow the Whistle</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/smrt-bus-service-drivers-blow-the-whistle/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/smrt-bus-service-drivers-blow-the-whistle/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:42:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This email was sent to TOC and other media outlets by a group of SMRT bus drivers who requested that they be allowed to remain anonymous. With regards to the various reports by the local newspapers, a group of bus drivers from SMRT Bus Service would like to point out that in actual fact, there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Opinions on Hougang By-Election</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/opinions-on-hougang-by-election/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/opinions-on-hougang-by-election/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:41:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo Khaw</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[~By Foo Jun Kai&#160;~ As a 20 year old Hougang resident&#160;who cannot exercise his right to vote in the upcoming by-election&#160;(due to the voting age in Singapore not being in line with many developed countries as the government knows that allowing those between the age of 18-21 to vote is not advantageous to them), I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ISA’s scar on Singaporean society</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/isas-scar-on-singaporean-society/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/isas-scar-on-singaporean-society/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 15:07:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By&#160;Dr James Gomez&#160;- The ISA has scared Singaporean society at three fundamental levels. At the first level it has scared the individuals directly arrested and detained. Years after their release, almost all remain traumatized and psychological scarred from the experience. It takes a life-time to break out of this experience. I am glad to note [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A tale of two rallies and Opposition solidarity</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/a-tale-of-two-rallies-and-opposition-solidarity/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/a-tale-of-two-rallies-and-opposition-solidarity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 10:09:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[~ By&#160;Kenneth Jeyaretnam&#160;~ Saturday night I stood in the historic field where many of the Cheng San rallies in 1997 were held. This brought back memories of my father who was then the WP Leader and his confidence then that the 50,000 crowd on the last night indicated a landslide. Of course he didn&#8217;t give [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hougang by-election rallies &#8211; putting statistics to the rhetoric</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/hougang-by-election-rallies-putting-statistics-to-the-rhetoric/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/hougang-by-election-rallies-putting-statistics-to-the-rhetoric/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 06:34:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Leong Sze Hian&#160;~ &#160; I refer to &#39;The Straits Times&#39; articles&#160;WP &#39;chose not to send Png into Parliament&#39;&#160;and&#160;&#39;Voters free to pick best man&#39;&#160;from May 21 2012. Foreign workers curtailed? The former states that &#8220;in the past year, it has tightened the inflow of foreign workers&#8221;. Based on 2011 data, &#160;local employment grew by 36,600 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Reprehensible History: The Internal Security Act</title>
		<link>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/a-reprehensible-history-the-internal-security-act/</link>
		<comments>http://theonlinecitizen.com/2012/05/a-reprehensible-history-the-internal-security-act/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 00:50:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>theonlinecitizen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Dr. Vincent Wijeysingha - The Emergency Regulations Ordinance, enacted in July 1948, allowed the police to arrest without evidence or warrant anybody suspected of having acted &#8220;or being likely to act&#8221; in a way that would endanger national security. It also empowered the authorities to hold detainees for investigation without recourse to legal advice [...]]]></description>
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