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Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Going Dark For The Rest Of 2009

Heng-Cheong Leong, MyAppleMenu

This website will be dark until Jan 2010, as I wind down the year for a short vacation and some down-time.

Unless something really big happens between now and Dec 31st, there will not be any updates to this website.

Have some holiday fun, and see you in the new year.

YPAP Issue Distracts You From The Real Problem- The PAP

Singaporean Skeptic

应由咖啡店主自行决定是否提供吸烟区

黄维财, 联合早报

如果有顾客担心吸入二手烟，大可不要靠近烟客，或不要光顾该咖啡店。这就如发现电视节目不好看，可随手把电视关掉不看一样，何必边看电视节目又边骂电视台和演员呢？

咖啡店业者更应该根据自己独有的环境和个别商业考量，自行决定是否继续提供吸烟区给烟客，这样做自然会吸引烟客，也会让一些不吸烟者却步，业者自会权衡得失，反正盈亏由咖啡店业者自己承担。

This will work when there are alternatives for the consumers. But the way coffeeshops are regulated in Singapore, it is usually a local monopoly, and customers have no real choices.

Foreigners Split Over Move To Raise School Fees

Maggie Chong and Dylan Loh, Today

The Education Ministry's move to raise annual school fees for permanent residents and international students from 2011 would affect foreigners' decision on whether they should remain in Singapore, according to foreigners who spoke to MediaCorp.

Singapore Raises School Fees For Foreigners

The Star

Malaysians whose children are studying in Singapore have been caught by surprise by an announcement that school fees for permanent residents (PR) and non-PR students in the republic will be raised in 2011.

StarHub's OpCo Unit Will See Some 'Red'

Business Times

Starhub subsidiary Nucleus Connect may have written off rival Singapore Telecommunications as a bandwidth customer but it appears that all is not lost for the green camp, thanks to a little-known government decree.

Tiger Airways Seeks Public Listing In Singapore

AFP

Budget carrier Tiger Airways said Monday it has informed the central bank of its plans to list on the Singapore Exchange ahead of an initial public offer (IPO).

Designs Released For Singapore’s Landscape Architecture Plans

World Architecture News

Grant Associates and Gustafson Porter have won an international competition, organised by Singapore’s National Parks Board, to design Gardens by the Bay, part of the next phase of the city’s masterplan. The gardens will occupy 101 hectares of prime land by the water and will become part of Marina Bay.

“Milder But More Credible”…for Whom?

Seelan Palay, The Online Citizen

With this kind of opposition or alternative party, Singapore will continue to be under the PAP for another half-a-century, giving firm assurance to the obvious desire of Law Minister K Shanmugam for the ruling party to continue with the status quo.

'There Is No Such Thing As Safe-riding ... '

Raymund Koh Joo Guan, Today