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OPINION The ballooning of the Youth Olympic Games' budget to $389 million dollars has shocked many Singaporeans, who are left wondering how the discrepancy might have occurred. Officials from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) who chose Singapore over Moscow to host the inaugural YOG might also be perturbed at the stunning... 

I am not against the YOG per se, so long as the games are well-managed, i.e. the tax-payers can at least break even in terms of expenditure and income. But I suppose that hope is more or less lost, for a variety of reasons. The problem at the bottom is really the current Singaporean political system. Changing that will require... 

In less than five days since its founding, more than 300 Singaporeans have joined the "I hate YOG" Facebook to express their disdain and disgust against the YOG. Created by a Singaporean by the name of Edmund Khor, the group described themselves as Singaporeans who are "fed up with the YOG". "The government ballooned its initial...