Singapore Insights

Its time to round of the year again, and Yahoo has announced what Singaporeans were searching for in 2009. Without further ado, let me list them down for you.
Top 10 Searches (All Categories)

Singapore Budget
If you remember, we have dug into our own reserves for the first time. Job Credit Scheme was also introduced.
H1N1
Can someone tell [...]

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Knowing that you have tickets to the Sinema Experience at Old School is a good enough reason for you to want to take the day off work and if you are a girl, to dress up and enjoy a cozy evening together with your other half. Singles out there can also look [...]

By 2010, we may have a very different skyline. Not only will there by a revamped Marina Bay, and Integrated Resorts, but we may well even have blimps hovering around the Marina Bay skies!
According ST Online, Zeppelin Airship World (ZAW), started by German permanent resident Armin Spenninger, has clinched a deal to ‘assemble, operate, market [...]

This is so rare that it might just happen just this once in your lifetime. And so, I decided to stay up and look at the sky even if it means missing some sleep. The longest duration of this century, this total solar eclipse happening on the 22 July, 2009 is visible in Singapore. A [...]

I was shocked when I read the article on today’s Straits Times. A housewife was fined for eating a sweet on the train. There was no mention of littering like throwing the wrapper on the floor, and neither was she muching on messy items like a burger. For god’s sake, its just a sweet ain’t [...]

We all should know by know that Potong Pasir and Hougang will be among those to have lift upgrading program being carried out. Something that has never happened to those opposition districts in the entire Singapore history. You can read about the full story here
In addition to that I’m sure most Singaporeans have also received [...]

Today’s article on Straits Times caught my attention. It was entitled “Look Whos Staring?”, with a photo of U.S. President Barack Obama caught checking out a sexy young lady.
According to the report, the young lady wearing a bare-back dress, is 17-year old Mayara Tavares. She’s a social activist from Brazil and was attending the G8 [...]

As I read President S R Nathan’s comments on Singapore’s political system, it was a series of frowns and smiles for me. To summarise what he said, it was basically his recognition that our political system has to evolve, and to allow our young to voice their opinions. Here, I was already frowning.
That was an [...]