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Articles about Singapore

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Would Singaporeans just learn how to behave [2011]

In defense of smokers [2011]

Maid carry backpack big deal [2011]

Singapore needs to encourage bad behavior [2012]

Old shoes and duckweed [2016]

Singapore Is So Exotic, Prosperous, Sterile, Creepy…

• Sandy Sandfort – The Intelligent Island [1993]
• Singapore as Potemkin Metropolis [2007]
• Singapore, the perfect world capital [2011]
• Singapore’s not-so-grim “Disneyland” [2012]
• How Lee Kuan Yew made Singapore the most prosperous, efficient, and quirkily repressive country in Asia [2015]
• Singapore’s funky apartments are like candy for the eyes [2015]

• Yes We Got Soul, Says Singaporean
  • Business Times – By gum, the West is wrong about Singapore
  • why I’m coming back to you Singapore 
• Singapore Got No Soul, Says Foreigner
  • Danny Dover – Why I’ll Never Return to Singapore – HN  
  • ARCHIVE – Five Reasons Not To Travel To Singapore – Response 1 – 2 – 3 – 4 – 5 – 6 
  • Expat mum about Singapore train
• Singapore Is Undemocratic
  • Why they hate Singapore [2008] – HN 
• Singapore is repressive
  • Singaporeans Cannot Do Naughty Things
    • Shisha Ban
    • Alcohol Ban
    • Chewing Gum Ban
    • Smoke Weed Overseas

Dating, Love, Sex & Babies

• NYtimes – Singapore succeeds at managing everything, except dating
• Alexis Ong: The problem with Singaporean men [2010] – Response (Molly Meek, TRP)
• Get a room, we don’t want to see you making out in public [2010]
• Singaporeans just don’t give a damn [2010]
• What Singaporean women think of Singaporean men [2012]
• What is wrong with Singaporean men [2012]
• Singaporeans hard to please in bed [2012]
• What do Singapore women really want [2013]
• Why S’pore couples are delaying marriage [2013]
• Sex:
  • Annabel Chong
  • Tila Tequila
  • Tammy NYP, Zanetta Joan Sit 
  • WP’s Yaw Shin Leong’s affairs and his subsequent expulsion from his party
  • Underage Prostitute – men charged
    • Shaw
    • Stickfas
    • LTC
    • Prosecutor
  • Ng Boon Gay [2012]
  • NUS professor, Tey Tsun Hang, in sex-for-grades
  • NUS’ Msian student Alvin Tan Jye Yee in his exhibitionist antics.
  • PAP politician of Punggol East SMC, Michael Palmer and his ‘mango escapades’ with own PA staff, Laura Ong
  • Singaporean women want more sex [2013]
  • 6 March – Jack Neo’s extramarital affairs are exposed.

Racism, Xenophobia, Homophobia…

• Singapore Bad For The Gay
  • Adrianna – Dear Gay Teen
    • Dear Fundie
  • Fikri – Fear And Loathing As A 21-yo Queer in Singapore
  • Essays On Same Lesbian Aunt Receive ‘A’ in Amsterdam, ‘F’ in Singapore
• Singapore is cruel to domestic help
  • Maid Flees Via Rubbish Chute
  • More maid

Singaporeans are dumb…?

• Singaporeans are stupid, foreigner says
  • i dun unerstan u lah!: An exposé of Singapore and Singaporean retardation [2013]

• Haze
  • indonesia say singapore behaving like child  
• Singaporeans Are So Pampered
  • Strawberry Generation
• Where Are Our Creative People?
• Singaporeans are Racist
• Foreigner Make Fun Of Singaporeans
  • Sun Xu 
  • Anton Casey 
    • Oon Shu Ann’s response to Casey
• Singapore is Divided
• Brain Drain, Jialat
  • Eli James singapore: where have all your talent gone [2012] 
• Singapore is Bad For Artists
  • Samantha Lo
  • Inch Chua slams lack of support for local musicians [2011] 
    • New Nation – Frustrated Singapore musician moving out of her homeland

$$$ – Money, Economy

• Young Singaporean Is Not Impressed With Singapore
  • Why I Would Like To Leave – Kitana [2006]
  • Letter To Singapore: 20yo leaves for London [2012] – Response: 1
    • Pat Law: This lesbian of a Singaporean is staying put [2012] 
  • Steph Micayle- Singaporeans are submissive [2014]
• Singapore’s Economy Si Liao
  • Why Singapore’s Economy is heading for an Iceland-style Meltdown [2014] 
  • A massive banking crisis is brewing in Singapore, says Swiss billionaire Zulauf (2015)
• Singapore’s Economy Damn Zai
  • Singapore, the world’s biggest startup [2013]
• Singapore Ruled By The Rich
  • The money-making machine of Singapore Inc [2010]
  • Who Rules Singapore? The Only True Mercantile State In The World – Analysis [2013]
  • Singapore Going To Be SEA’s Sillicon Valley
    • 2011: in singapore, a failure to fail:
    • Singapore seeks a breakthrough to call its own [2012]
    • BBC –Singapore pushes ‘entrepreneurial nation [2012]
    • Singapore joins hunt for new Zuckerberg [2013]
    • Derek Sivers – Understanding Singapore  – 
    • Derek Sivers – I’m moving to Singapore – HN
    • Saverin [2011]
  • Singapore Is For Rich People
    • Derek Wee – Future of Singapore [2006]
      • Wee Shu Min response / controversy – 1 – 2 – 3
    • Unaffordable cities: Singapore workers tread water on millionaires’ island [2014] 
• Angry Teenager KPKB The Government
  • **** you, DPM Teo – 1 
  • Amos Yee
• The Elites Are Different
  • hongyi email [2007]
  • Tony Tan’s son
• Ministerial Salaries
• Singapore Gahmen Corrupt and Nepotistic, Singaporean Says
  • Yeow Cheow Tong – Salaries

• Clutch Your Pearls, Singapore Executes People
  • Disneyland With The Death Penalty [1993] “We sent William Gibson to Singapore to see whether that clean dystopia represents our techno future.” – Revisited [2012]
  • Al Jazeera – Death Penalty Divides Singapore (Shadrake, Vui Koong) [2012]: 
• “We Not Corrupt, We Sue You” – Gahmen
• Singaporeans Happiest in Asia [2010] – response: 1
• Singaporeans Are Emotionless
  • Singaporeans not only emotionless but unhappy as well: Gallup poll [2012] – 1 – 2 – 3 
• Singapore Elections Marked by buzz of discontent [2011]
• PSLE Is Life And Death
• Singaporeans Cannot Do Naughty Things
  • Shisha Ban
  • Alcohol Ban
  • Chewing Gum Ban
  • Smoke Weed Overseas
• Elderly Doing Exercise
• Censorship Is [REDACTED]
  • 6 July – The local free newspaper Today suspends the column of mrbrown in a noted case of censorship in Singapore following a letter from a government official to the letters section of the paper.
  • SVFV
• We Don’t Need National Service, Says Pre-Enlistee
• Singaporeans are Racist
  • Amy Cheong [2012] 1 – 2
• Where Got Racism In Singapore, Says Singaporean Chinese
  • Now Is Not The Time For Thaipusam, Singaporean Chinese Says

Education

• Singapore Is A Pressure Cooker
  • Straight A student commits suicide over O-level results, mum takes her own life months later [2015]
• Singapore Schooling System Very Zai
  • Education dominates Singapore’s ‘different’ culture: Brent Larkin [2012] – HN 

Unsorted

• Resources
  • http://calibratedcoercion.wordpress.com/about-us/
• Molly Meek – The functions of apologies in Singapore [2012] 
• 2012 year in review 

• Racist Gets Stern Warning
• Foreigners Are Cockroaches, Says Singaporean
• Little India Riot 1 – 2 
  • Dee Kosh joked
• https://sg.news.yahoo.com/remembering-13-most-horrifying-incidents-033000118.html
• http://www.spell7.net/paulrae/1012.pdf When Singapore Became Bali of 21st century
• Single Dude’s Travel Guide To Singapore [2011] The Cons, The Pros
  • 7 May – James Gomez is detained in Singapore for further questioning, after trying to leave for Sweden to return to work. He was released a week later and given a formal warning.
• 2008:
  • 27 February – Singapore’s most wanted terror fugitive, Mas Selamat bin Kastari, escaped from detention under the country’s Internal Security Act.[2]
  • 28 November – Lo Hwei Yen (A Singaporean held hostage killed during the November 2008 Mumbai attacks)
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_in_Singapore
  • H1N1 (Total 1217 case).
  • Early April – Mass food poisoning incident involving an Indian rojak stall at the Geylang Serai temporary market caused more than 150 people to be affected, 1 miscarriage and claimed 2 lives.
• 2010:
  • 1 January – MediaCorp discontinued TVMobile due to the planning of withdrawing the older generation of SBS Transit buses, to replace them with new ones for the new decade.
  • 25 June – Heavy and intense downpour causes flash floods around Singapore and road chaos.
  • 17 July – Early morning heavy rain causes flash floods in hotspots of Singapore, partly due to Typhoon Conson (2010).
  • 8 September – Flash floods occur in Shenton Way and Little India in the late morning.
  • 2 November – British author and former journalist, Alan Shadrake, was found guilty of contempt of court to Singapore judicial system for his book Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock.
  • 31 December – Singapore’s economy grew by 14.7% for the whole year, the best growth on record ever for the country.
• 2013:
  • 21 June – The newly minted record was broken again at 12pm, with the PSI remaining in the “Hazardous” range with a reading of 401.[4] (haze)
  • Early November – Hackings started occurring, and the YouTube video of Anonymus Hacker Group’s The Messiah threatening the Singapore government.
  • http://reason.com/blog/2005/08/11/singapore-orders-its-citizens

• Writing Ideas #todo write a couple of sentences about why each thing is necessary
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  • important books worth reading
  • famous suicides/murders in singapore?
  • drugs?
  • interesting facts?
  • Timeline of SG
  • Disneyland death penalty
  • operation cold store
  • singapore inc
  • startups in sg
  • gas haus