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Despite the light drizzle, nearly 400 Singaporeans from all ages and race turned up at Hong Lim Park on a Saturday evening to attend the Singapore Democratic Party's marathon pre-election rally which lasted four hours from 5pm to 9pm. The evening was kicked off by the Young Democrats who took to the podium to share their dreams, vision and aspirations for a more open, equal and democratic Singapore. among them is 27 year old Abdul Malik who was arrested by the Singapore police for criticizing PAP minister Dr Vivian Balakrishnan over his handling of the YOG on Facebook. In his short maiden speech, Mr Malik made an appeal to Singaporeans to give ex-offenders like himself a second chance in life and thanked his employer Mr Michael Ong for his understanding and support during his recent ordeal. After a short break of 10 minutes, the senior members of the SDP took turns to criticize PAP policies and outlined the party's alternative economic proposal for Singapore. The hot topic of the day revolved around immigration as SDP leaders lampooned the PAP for their open-door immigration policy which has caused untold amount suffering to ordinary Singaporeans. They stressed that they are not against genuine foreign talents who can contribute to Singapore, but against the indiscriminate influx of foreigners which has changed the demographics of Singapore beyond recognition. Mr Tan Kin Lian, who is a guest speaker, proposed a minimum wage for Singaporeans which is supported by new SDP member Dr Vincent Wijeysingha who holds a PhD from the University of Sheffield. Dr Vincent Wijeysingha proposed legislating a minimum wage of $6.80 per hour as well as unemployment benefits for Singaporeans who will be given 75 percent of their last drawn pay for the first six months of unemployment followed by 50 percent for the next six months and 25 percent subsequently for them to tide through the interim period. Veteran opposition politician Jufrie Mahmood drew laughter from the crowd when he took a pot shot at PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew for being a very expensive "fortune teller" whose "forecasts" are almost always wrong. Former ISA detainee Mr Vincent Cheng shared his traumatic experiences of being abused and assaulted by ISD officers during his three year detention and called for the abolishment of the Internal Security Act. The night was capped by an inspiring speech from SDP's Secretary-General Chee Soon Juan who urged the crowd to make use of the rare opportunity presented to them in the next general election to vote for the SDP into parliament to speak up for them. The huge turnout surprised even SDP leaders themselves as SDP's pre-election rally was not given any publicity by the mainstream media prior to Saturday and only a Zaobao journalist was there to cover the event. There was no crew seen from Channel News Asia. There was a palpable sense of tension and anger in the air as Singaporeans turned up in numbers towards the end of the rally to listen to SDP with loud applause heard as PAP leaders were criticized publicly for their astronomical salaries and dismal performance. From the turnout and response of the crowd, it is pretty obvious that the wind of change is blowing across Singapore and the PAP may be in for a rude shock in the coming general election.   MORE REPORTS AND PHOTOS TO COME TOMORROW   Please join our Facebook page here and invite your friends to do so to create awareness of the current affairs affecting Singaporeans. Please use our online web form to contact us.  Read More →

Afraid of revealing unwittingly to Singaporeans of some unworthy foreigners who are being given PR and citizenship by the PAP regime, the Straits Times now omits mentioning the PR status of foreigners commmitting crimes in Singapore altogether. In the past, the paper will usually mention the status of foreigners convicted of committing crimes which brought to light many cleaners, construction workers, bus drivers, masseurs, nursery teachers, chambermaids and even freelance prostitutes being given Singapore PR and citizenship, unheard of anywhere else in the world. Now, only the nationality of the criminal is published. For example, in April 2010, the Straits Times reported a Singapore PR from Malaysia Tan Eng Heong being sentenced to six months jail for road rage. (read here) Upon appeal, he has his sentence reduced to only one month. However, the subsequent report did not mention that he is a Singapore PR (read here) It is not known if Mr Tan's PR will now be revoked by the PAP regime. The number of foreigners, PRs and new citizens who are convicted of criminal offences each year in Singapore remains a mystery to this very day. Due to the PAP's pro-foreigner and ultra-liberal immigration policies, foreigners (excluding PRs) now make up 36 percent of Singapore's population, up from 14 percent in 1990. Of the remaining 64 percent who are citizens, an increasing number are born overseas. If the Straits Times continue to censor the PR/citizenship status of foreigners committing crimes in Singapore, we can safely assume that they are either Singapore PR or new citizen.   Please join our Facebook page here and invite your friends to do so to create awareness of the current affairs affecting Singaporeans. Please use our online web form to contact us.  Read More →

www.temasekreview.net Further to our appeal for donations towards our new server on 8th september 2010, we are pleased to inform our readers that the amount of donations received have exceeded the target amount of US$1300.00 required for the deployment of our new server. (Temasek Review – A victim of our own success (updated) As planned, we have added a brand new server to our load-balanced cluster which brings our present server farm to comprise of an Intel Xeon 3210 c/w 8gb memory and two Intel Nehalem  E5620 c/w 12gb memory with a combined dedicated bandwidth of 100mbps (up from 50mbps previously) on a CISCO hardware DDoS protected network. Other than the addition of this new server to our existing cluster, we have also registered a new domain temasekreview.net which will serve as a real-time mirror site for our main domain, temasekreview.com. Since the servers are synchronized in real-time, our readers can now access our site through either of our 2 domains. Coupled with hardware load balancing, our site will be able to achieve maximum uptime and ensure continued accessibility to all our readers from around the world. Most commonly, the term load balancing refers to distributing incoming HTTP requests across Web servers in a server farm, to avoid overloading any one server. Because load balancing distributes the requests based on the actual load at each server, it is excellent for ensuring availability and defending against denial of service attacks.  We would like to take this opportunity to express our deepest appreciation to those who have donated towards our cause past and present, without whom Temasek Review would not have been what it is today, successfully providing an independent, balanced and unbiased coverage on socio-political affairs in Singapore and at the same time offering a minimal-censored platform for voiceless Singaporeans to interact and share with one another. Our editorial position is consistently based on social justice, human rights, democracy, civil liberties, and governance centred around the principles of transparency, accountability and responsibility from which we will endeavor to foster an informed, educated, thinking and proactive citizenry. Please continue to support our site if you believe in our cause.   Thank you and regards.   Molina Han, Managing Editor   Note: If you are a registered user, please note that login to our main site will NOT automatically log you into our mirror site and vice versa. Although the contents (articles, users and comments) are synchronised in real-time, login is not. You need to login to the site you wish to visit but you need NOT re-register again at our mirror site.  Read More →