It’s difficult for a heartland born-and-bred Singaporean like me to imagine, but there are apparently people in Singapore who have never lived in, or even stepped into, a Housing Board flat. When I was discussing property purchases with a group…
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Calvin Cheng is an acquaintance of mine. I even had him on my Facebook “friends” list. But not anymore. I removed him after his latest Facebook posting which insinuated that the writings or work of playwright Alfian Sa’at were such…
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I refer to the various news reports of 12th and 13th May on the information and comments released by the Ministry of National Development (MND) to the media, concerning the withholding of the Service & Conservancy Charges (S&CC) operating grant…
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The Ministry of National Development (MND) has applied to Court to appoint independent accountants to safeguard Government grants to the Workers’ Party-run Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC) and to oversee its use of those grants. MND said that the court…
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Once upon a time, when HDB was first started in the 1960s, flats were really sold at close to cost and followed the model of true subsidized housing. In the 1970s, flats were sold on a cost basis, in other…
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