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	<description>Reclaiming our five stars - democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality</description>
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		<title>My new book: Singapore version 2.0</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/07/gerald-giam%e2%80%99s-new-book-singapore-version-2-0/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Giam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am happy to announce the publication of my first book, Singapore version 2.0: Alternative proposals for a better Singapore. My book is now on sale at my blog. You can go to geraldgiam.sg/book to place an order and it will be mailed to you. ]]></description>
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		<title>My interview with the Straits Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:01:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Giam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excerpt of an interview I had with the Straits Times, published on 9 July 2010, shortly after I was elected to the Workers' Party's Central Executive Council. ]]></description>
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		<title>My interview on Yahoo! Fit to Post</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Jul 2010 17:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Giam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a video interview I had with Yahoo! Singapore on their news feature Fit to Post, published on 14 and 16 July 2010. I shared about why I joined the Workers' Party and what I think the key issues affecting Singaporeans are.]]></description>
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		<title>Sylvia Lim grills Home Affairs, Environment Ministers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:04:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Giam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Workers' Party chairman Sylvia Lim asked several questions in Parliament yesterday, two of which touched on issues which have hit a raw nerve of many Singaporeans, namely the frequent flooding across Singapore and the security lapse at the MRT depot.]]></description>
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		<title>Workers&#8217; Party Open House</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/07/workers-party-open-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jul 2010 16:22:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Giam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I will be on my first duty as a CEC member at the Workers&#8217; Party Open House.
Date: Monday, 19 July 2010
Time: 8 &#8211; 9.30pm
Venue: 216G Syed Alwi Road #02-03 (click for map)
All are welcome  to drop by to find out more about the Workers&#8217; Party or just for a chat. Hope to see you there!




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		<title>The PAP’s obsession with GDP growth</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/07/the-pap%e2%80%99s-obsession-with-gdp-growth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Giam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following the publication of the Economic Strategies Committee report earlier this year, we were supposed to be restructuring our economy. Growth was supposed to be slower, and led by productivity gains, not manpower inputs. Yet, the other headline today directly contradicts this: “100,000 foreign workers needed: PM”.

After a drop of just 4,200 foreigner numbers last year due to the downturn, the PAP’s “open-the-floodgates” immigration policy is back with a vengeance. So much for all their promises of “moderating” the inflow of foreigners.]]></description>
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		<title>Opposition wards achieve more with less</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/07/opposition-wards-achieve-more-with-less/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:06:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Giam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Straits Times carried a commentary by one of its journalists today criticizing the Government&#8217;s handling of the Town Council Management Report (TCMR). The journalist gave the Government &#8220;at best an E -&#8221; grade for &#8220;effort&#8221;. In other words, the Government failed miserably. (In the &#8216;O&#8217; levels, a &#8216;D&#8217; is already a failing grade.)
My 13 June blog [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;You may wish to get involved in&#8230;political organizations&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/07/you-may-wish-to-get-involved-in-political-organizations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Giam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is my hope that despite the practical restrictions, with better access to alternative political ideas through the Internet, more of our undergrads will have their political awakenings while on campus, just like I did 13 years ago while studying at USC.]]></description>
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		<title>Workers&#8217; Party visits Bedok South</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/06/workers-party-visits-bedok-south/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Giam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Workers' Party's Eastern Area Committee (EAC) conducted our house visits in Bedok South yesterday evening. As always, we had an enriching time chatting with residents and understanding their concerns about life in Singapore. Residents we met expressed appreciation for our visit.]]></description>
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		<title>Where have all the engineers gone?</title>
		<link>http://geraldgiam.sg/2010/06/where-have-all-the-engineers-gone/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 15:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gerald Giam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have we gotten to a point where our employers and the government don't even bother recruiting local engineers and immediately recruit from overseas? Will this not create  vicious cycle whereby bright Singaporean students avoid studying engineering in university because they know that once they graduate they will have to compete with an onslaught of cheaper foreign engineers? Can we really build up and sustain a knowledge based economy without a core of local scientists and engineers driving it?]]></description>
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