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Minister Khaw Boon Wan Among the many HDB upgrading programmes to improve quality of life in HDB estates, the Lift Upgrading Programme (LUP) tops the popularity chart. It is welcome by all, our seniors, our mothers with prams, our residents with marketing trolleys. Who does not want a lift which stops at the floor you live in? Launched... 

Recent announcements by Mr Khaw Boon Wan in Parliament and on his blog indicate that he is rethinking the role of HDB in Singapore’s future. There seem to be hints that the PAP are abandoning their somewhat euphemistically entitled, “asset appreciation” policy which I call a policy of “deliberately creating a housing... 

在过去的几个月，新加坡境内外的华文媒体，出现了不少吹捧新加坡模式的论述，看来，其动机除了强化人民行动党政府的声望，也是要进一步肯定李光耀的 历史地位。不过，遗憾的，好些打着教授或者研究所名堂的文章，其内容却是一种主观的政治判断，并非学术性的解释社会的真实现象。 举两个例子，有人认为新加坡并非威权主义和一党制，而是一个一人一票的民主政治体系，这种女人是阿妈的简单逻辑，很早以前就已经被众多学术论著挑...