The moronic chauvinists have spoken. And of course they miss the point, given their tendency
to idiocy. You see, this article, is written by a SINGAPOREAN. It is about SINGAPORE.
Specifically the draconian nature of it's politics. In this aspect, it is similar to Zimbabwe,
or it bears similarities with Zimbabwe. In comparison to Malaysia, Singapore is in this
respect closer to Zimbabwe than Malaysia. So goes the writer. And he has a point,
why does developed Singapore show such a third-world attitude to dissent
and freedom? Valid observations from the author. The comments from our moronic
chauvinist commentators are Malaysia this and Malaysia that... C'mon morons...
does that mean that Singapore is controlled by the repressive PAP because of
Malaysia? What the hell type of stupid reasoning is that? No press freedom?...
because of Malaysia. No viable opposition..Malaysia...Nepotism..also because
of Malaysia... No freedom of assembly ...also Malaysia.. I see the answer to
all of Singapore's policies is Malaysia. Now why didn't I think of that...must be
because I'm not a chauvinistic kumquat !!!!
The ISA in that case is wrong for Malaysia but right for Singapore...I see.
That's some political and moral gymnastics. Bodoh punya chauvinists!!!!!

1) The fact that Singaporeans are emigrate legally bodes well for the quality of Singaporeans.
However there are multitudes of qualified people waiting to move to Singapore.

Zimbabwe has lots of emigration but little but little immigration.

Malaysia has lots of emigration & lots of immigration .... but the good quality is leaving and the questionable quality arriving!

2) The birth rate is declining in most develped countries including Japan.

3) A little Darwinism is good to keep the locals on guard... unlike UMNO which creates a false sense of security while the world passes "UMNO - drugged" people in slumberland!

Over time, the MM says, Singaporeans have become "less hard-driving and hard-striving." This is why it is a good thing, the MM says, that the nation has welcomed so many Chinese immigrants (25 percent of the population is now foreign-born). He is aware that many Singaporeans are unhappy with the influx of immigrants, especially those educated newcomers prepared to fight for higher paying jobs. But taking a typically Darwinian stance, the MM describes the country's new subjects as "hungry," with parents who "pushed the children very hard." If native Singaporeans are falling behind because "the spurs are not stuck into the hide," that is their problem.

Singapore's birth rate continues to fall and singaporeans continue to immigrate in hugenumbers. this does not sound like a nirvana to me. It certainly sounds zimbabwe like.

Malaysia stinks like hell if compared to Singapore. To be upfront Singapore Malays looks down on Malaysian Malays. UMNO wants to the rakyat to believe that Singapore Malays are a marginalised race in Singapore. The truth is Singapore Malays proudly indentify themselves as Singaporeans. Singapore Malays make their life without special government handouts. They have achieved more and are way ahead then their Malaysian counterpart.

Enough have been said and I think the verdict is crystal clear. Let say no more. Thank you all, both Singaporean and Malaysian. Looks like we need a 1Malaysia + 1Singapore = Satu Malayan

Those who bash Singapore are the same people who says the Malays in Singapore are marginalized. These are the Malaysians who are brain-washed by the Umno's ketuanan melayu's theme and perhaps the BTN. They know nuts about Singapore. They choose to believe mamakthir's rhetorical condemnation of Singapore just to satisfy their oversized egos.

The people who wrote the above article sound like the SDP of Singapore. Instead of being a credible opposition like the WP and SPP they choose to deviate from the main stream opposition parties and as a result many Singaporeans do not trust them.

Singapore has many short comings but you can't deny that they are a successful country. They must have done something or many things right. Even though Singapore has little political freedom, as some of you claimed, the basic needs of the her citizens are provided, so the intensity of dissent is not as great as in many other countries.

Malaysians, on the other hand, don't even have the basic rights to safety and security. Corruptions are rampant, judiciary are biased, murderers got off scot-free, theft and robberies are the way of life...

Those who say that they would rather be Singaporeans than Malaysians are also most likely to crawl back to UMNO if not already. This is a guaranteed tendency.

I love this part of the above article :

"While it looks increasingly likely that Malaysians will vote out the incumbent by the next election, Singaporeans will probably be stuck with the PAP for the new few decades."

Malaysian constitutional law expert Abdul Aziz Bari sparked a furore lately for likening the state of “lawlessness” in Malaysia to that in Zimbabwe which was echoed by former Law Minister Zaid Ibrahim.

THE KANGAROO COURTS AND THEIR JESTER JUDGES WOULD MAKE MUGABE PROUD.
TDM HARBOURS MUGABE'S DICTATORIAL POST. WHAT IS OUR RINGGIT'S WORTH??
WHAT IS THE LEVEL OF CORRUPTION BETWEEN MALAYSIA AND SINGAPORE?? WE HV COWBRAINS, PEABRAINS AND SENILE BRAINS RUNNING THE COUNTRY. WANT ME TO GO ON???

Malaysian choosed their way of Life, and if the majority still Vote for BN, we may landed worst than the African Country! The African may have lived in the open air, but at least they can have a peaceful life while we stayed in the Iron grill protected home waiting for the interlude of the thieves, thugs and robbers. Don't compared us with the others, while you can't distinguised who is supposed to rule our country!!!

As for my fellow Malaysian,

Don't be quick to say the lawn on the other side is greener than ours.

I hate hypocrites. If it is wrong then say it is wrong but don't justify a wrong as some right. If you do then you are no different than our fellow politicians.

Malaysian Fighting For Malaysia.

Hi RPK,

Yes, i agree with you.. Singapore is worst than Malaysia. Despite their economic success, people are repressed.

Malaysian Fighting For Malaysia.

Well guys all is not lost!

All of you who are disillusioned by Zimba_Singapore are welcome to Malaysia on the Second Home or Silver haired scheme.

Change your religion and marry a New Malay from Indon , India , Banga , Parki or Mindano and be a New Malay and enjoy the NEP within 8 months.

Why stay in Singapore and suffer under all those laws and order????Why have National Service to protect your butts???

Welcome to Malaysia!! Surrender your Singapore Citizenship! UMNO needs you!!!

So now Singapore before the 'Cow-Head'

The writer has his grouses against the Singapore ruling PAP administration and they are valid ones.
But it is really a long stretch of the imagination to claim S'pore is ahead in the Zimbabwe's likeness compared to M'sia.
S'pore's accomplishments are renowned and acclaimed internationally, though in terms of political vibrancy it is behind our own M'sia.
Yes, quite a few opposition leaders have been sued to bankruptcy and so has quite a few media giants paid large sums awarded for defaming the PAP leaders.
Yet, by and large the S'pore judicial systemis untainted unlike our UMNOputra judiciary!!!

Let’s compare and judge for yourselves. If you agree, Let's salute PAP and the Singaporean leaders.

Lets's see now . . ., the "Ketuanan" UMNO Malay leaders in Malaysia are Muslims, and they claim they are champions of Islam. In fact, the "Ketuanan" Malays even dare to shed blood in defend of Islam. Yet, they indulge in corruption and bribery left, right and centre. They steal the peoples' money like nobody's business.

Meanwhile, across the causeway. . ., those Singaporean are "Kafir" Chinese. They eat pork and drink beer, yet they do not indulge in corruption or steal the peoples' money!

If given the opportunity of choosiing a citizenship. . ., I'd prefer to be a Singaporean, hands down!
(Sigh. . ., why did my mom left Singapore when she married my father?)

Why drag singapore into the picture?

Clean up your own dirty backyard.
Try to divert attention?

the citizens of both malaysia and singapore are leaving the countries in droves, mostly to aussieland. A huge percentage of aussieland's economy depends on giving higher education and attracting funds from those in flight.
2 years national service and less stressful education system for their children are some of the reasons why singaporeans left the country.

Why did Singapore give their highest award to IGP Musa Hasan a few months ago?

Yes, their laws may be repressive and they would bankrupt you by way of libel suit.

In Bolehland they don't even bother using legal means. They just take your money from you (by printing money - of course, fools don't know what this is), steal from the country, and bump people off in broad daylight.

xxx

For the blind, they will never be able to see but for those who are not, yes Singapore is a repressive country. It has 3 levels of law. (1) for the Lee family (2) for PAP and then (3) for the ordinary folks.
There are many large worms in the Singapore cupboard which we will never be able to find out.
LKY's success is that he has been able to mask all these indiscretions and still make people happy and believe in him. Only blind people are fooled by all this.
Having said that Malaysia's indiscretions will take any prize. Malaysia truly boleh! And we the people are allowing it to continue. That is the part I cannot understand. Where is the "opposition" on these indiscretions? Has Anwar made any comment for example? Come on guys? Where the balls?

Anytime I will chose a govt like S'pore. Yes S'pore is not perfect but do they have a TBH case. Funny, a withness to a case got killed in MACC. Yup, we paid $500 million to Baginda as submarine commission and to top matters, Mahatir cited Badawi took $250 billion money from Petronas and has so many "bocor" corridors.

We don't have one single minister who have graduated from the ivy leagues. We have a bunch with no standard Msian Univ supported with low standard masterate/doctorate from western univ. Ini macham kita ada banyak ta ada standard who only knows how to show off their saya ada PHD --- Permanently Head Damage arrogance and wants to belittle the rakyat with their new found wisdom.

How come a tiny island like S'pore, a little bigger than KL city has more money than we have and the people have a better quality of life and most can afford to live anywhere in the world after their retirement or before? How many times is S'pore dollar stronger than the Msian ringgit??? If Msia have standards like S'pore and given our natural resources we are the biggest tiger in Asia. No need to pay kopi-O money to govt servants to get things done. Wakey up Mr.Lingam standard Msian law expert, see what is happening to Msia. No wonder you are filthy rich, must be an UMNO bodek & in the company of crooks!!!

omment taken from the temasekreview site.

?Azlan on Fri, 25th Dec 2009 5:43 pm

As a Singaporean Malay, I disagree that Singapore is likened to be a Zimbabwe.

Minorities are given free education, subsidised food for school children such as the Milk Programme where children are given milk daily to promote health awareness, housing is taken care of, country is safe for my children, police is citizen-friendly unlike in Malaysia where police constantly beat up suspects and those under custody leading to deaths, roads are clean, city is clean, public transport is efficient, government agencies are efficient and effective, corruption is very very low and almost zilch, all my 3 children went to the local University with no issues in admission (entrants based on meritocracy) and they have good jobs in MNCs, my children speak perfect English, plus many more. No taxi driver has ever sent passengers to a jungle area, tie them up and rape or loot their personal effects.

In short, I am happy with the quality of life and living standard in Singapore. The key is the environment is safe for raising a family BUT not in Malaysia. Innocent citizens are constantly hauled up for no reason except being asked for kopi money or to be tortured unnecessarily in the lockup. We can eat and buy whatever we want here. Me and my family never felt like we are 2nd class here. In fact, we feel we are being treated with exception – free education and schooling years of my children. WE live in harmony with other races here.

Can Malaysia match up?

Malaysia is living in the 18th century, no progress in terms of mentality and citizen welfare.

So, Singapore is progressing well and manage to attract high inflow of FDI and it is ranked the world’s number 3 in terms of the best place for expatriates to work.

How about Malaysia? Even I am afraid to get into Johor. Many of my SIngaporean friends, even Malays, are robbed and cars scratched and a couple even got beaten in Genting by the bodyguards of one VIP! This is horrendous….Malaysia is filled with criminals and boasts of crime. Even Anita Sarawak & husband got a taste of crime a while back. Her Mat Salleh husband was slashed in broad daylight!! Mat Rempits are rampant and no women dare to carry shoulder bags. What freedom is this?

Even said. Our taxpayers money is well spent.

"Freedom in the World 2009" Survey - Combined Average Rankings (Freedom House)

Malaysia 4.0 Partly Free
Singapore 4.5 Partly Free
Zimbabwe 6.5 Not Free


"Freedom of the Press 2009" Rankings (Freedom House)

Malaysia No. 143
Singapore No. 151
Zimbabwe No. 186


"2009 Index of Economic Freedom" Rankings (Heritage Foundation)

Singapore No. 2
Malaysia No. 58
Zimbabwe No. 178

Ha ha ha, Singapore is way way ahead of Malaysia in every respect. To think otherwise would only mean that it came from a sing cow or an UMNO cowhead! Mark my words, very soon in Malaysia, the word Singapore could become taboo just like aminah, petra, raja, mamak, rasuah, God, etc, etc.

bodoh punya malaysian..the article story bout political not economic comparison..so plz comment based on what article talk bout..if LKY be our PM, for sure our lim kit siang,zaid ibrahim, lim guan eng will be bankcrupt!!!

People, I guess, are never contented. Once a sage (don't remember who it was but I believe it was one of those Chinese philosophers) said happiness is content.

Truth is nothing is perfect in this world, but there are degrees of perceived perfection. Sure, Singapore can lament about how dictatorial LKY was. How the opposition does not 'exist'. But to my Singapore brethrens: given the half of what you guys have Malaysians would be contented.

Consider this: We have a PM who is involved in murder, adultery, and corruption (RM5 million commission to his poltical advisor for the purchase of submarines); we have institutionalised discrimination which is government policy in the form of NEP and Ketuanan Melayu.

We have a whole bunch of royalty jokers who only know how to take but never give.

We have ginormous scandals and corruption involving billions of ringgit committed by politicians. We have a rapist for a Chief Minister, a money launderer as a Menteri Besar... I don't want to go on. It would take up all the server's storage space.

I said contention is relative. On the other hand if one compares Malaysia to some failed African states then Malaysians ought to be thankful. But what I'm saying is we should not be making direct comparisons like this.

What we should do instead asking the question of if it was not because of how Malaysia was governed for the past 52 years by a corrupt BN/UMNO what would have happened today? The potential that Malaysia had was never given a chance to be realised because of a gross misgovernment.

Malaysia was blessed with many things. Natural resources, fertile land, but the sad thing is, we never make full use of what God blessed us with.

So, again, before Singaporeans start comparing Malaysian government with Singapore's think deeply and be objective in your analysis. Would you trade your PAP with UMNO/BN? If you do, I'd be more than happy to let you have UMNO/BN with all its corrupt baggage.

I've said all the above with sincerity. You don't know how lucky you are. If only Malaysia had a government which is half as clean and efficient as yours....

No ex-law minister in Singapore dared to criticise?
How about a past president when internet was still in its infancy ?
You blokes easily forget.

Anyway, we have all the sins of Zimbabwe (rampant corruption, steep inflation, clueless leadership, tainted leaders, racists running the government, blotted civil service, inefficient public works, a depleting national coffer, corrupted judiciary/prosecution office/police/civil service/public institutions ....etc) while Singapore have only one.
They are doing a lot better than us despite having little natural resources.

It's already bad if we are myopic.
It's worse to be blind.

Malaysia is like China's dynasty era. Who commands power, he/she is the biggest fcuk. Anything from rape, corruption, murder and etc can be controlled under its hands. However, it is not forever because when the power is gone, the debtors will come running to him/her to ask for payment (retribution). Let's hope that Ummnono/The-End continues their foolish quest of a "ez, lazy" lifestyle. All the best!!!!

Singaporeans who are unhappy can migrate to Zimbabwe, Myanmar and North Korea !

Many Malaysians (and Indians, Filipinos, Australians, British, Chinese, Pakistanis, Indonesians, Burmese, Thais, Cambodians, Vietnamese etc...) are waiting to take their place in Singapore... please hurry!

In a nutshell - Singapore can be thankful they do not have a Tun M nor a PKFZ.

I hope Singaporeans don't read this article. This that wrote this article is totally one sided, pro UMNO, to sabotage the Opposition and confused the people of Malaysia. My question is: Do you know how many Malaysians would like to stay or already a PR in Singapore?

Singapore is not a Zimbabwe, Malaysia is.. The reason is simple and clear . Singapore is on the way up an up but Malaysia is on the way down crumbling under its own weight of massive corruption. Singapore may be an authoritarian society but its citizens enjoy first class education and services. Singapore politicians, government departments are not as corruptable compared to Malaysia. Singapore well goverened. The Singapore government takes care of the wellbeing of its citizens. The UMNO government robs and abuses its own people.

Give credit where credit is due. Malaysians only recently had some form of freedom of speech under Badawi and also Najib. Under that tyrant, Mahathir, nobody would dare voice out their grievances against him then. As for Singapore, everyone knows the Chinese are the majority there and it's an open secret they are kiasu (scared to lose), kiasi (scared to die), kiachenghoo (scared of gomen) and kiaboar (scared of wife). I am Chinese Malaysian and some of these bad culture of kiasuism is in most of us here too. We need to wake up and rise up against racism, corruption and power abuses in the country.

I tend to disagree with the author of this article. Why we must exclude others areas of important such as economic if we want to debate on a bigger picture. We must see thing from the whole lot of issues in order for us to come to a conlusion on camparision. If Singapore is as bad as what you"ve written like the judiciary, why there are a lot of FDI flowing into Singapore instead of Malaysia. Why some MNC when they want to set up their operations in Malaysia they will sign their agreement in other countries like Singapore, Hong Kong etc and not in Malaysia. But in Malaysia the outflow of FDI had become worsen years by years compare to inflow. Malaysia economy had been stagnant for more than ten years as admitted by the DFM2 recently.

No doubt every country in the world had their flaws. No one is 100% perfect. What is more important for any country to progress is their management from the people who implement the policy that suit their country base on needs and not base on greeds.The welfare of their citizens will be their priority and not the welfare of their cronies.

What rubbish is this writer talking about? Comparing leaders who deliver (and control) with leaders who rob their country poor but yet want to stay in control and then paint a bad light on the former? Those leaders are worlds apart and shouldn't even be linked together in the first place. Any attempt in doing so is done in poor taste.

The vast difference in the respective countries' standard of living and their respective international standing tells all. International or public won't be easily swayed from the truth. This posting is absolutely trash!

who fcuk care about singapore!! it is MT down here.

The Temasek review has nothing good to say about the PAP and the Singapore government. He should come and live in Malaysia for a while and let us hear him say the same thing after that.

I grankly didn't so, Dr Bari. It is a matter of survival in Spore and similar to Hong Kong & Taiwan. Everyone must compete against each other; of course the bad thing about Spore and its people is that they no human feeling and quite materialistics.

Compare to Malaysia, here is even worse. This is the land of Zimbabwe governed by the 'Mugabe' Najib & Mahathir government. The current set of most of the Malay ministers are clones of Mugabe unfortunately. I think Malaysia should change it belief to to run like a socialist country. Yes, this may bring us back to behind time, but it is a lesson for all the monkeys in Malaysia to learn that they have to earn the credits for themselves, and not to steal and force others to give up something at FOC. It is a matter of equality.

The author of this article is wrong.

Singapore is certainly not Zimbabwe so is Malaysia.

Singapore don't have press freedom as much as a true democratic country has. Malaysia is slightly better in this area but still nothing compare to the press freedom practise by other. Singapore does not have credible alternative political parties to vote for. Malaysia used to be quite similar to Singapore but since 2008 election, we do have alternatively.

Singapore is almost corruption free while Malaysia is still a long way down. But Singapore government brought development, good and accessible education, top quality health care, excellent public transport and most important of all peace and harmony to the country. Malaysia still have a long way to catch up with Singapore in this area.

Either way linking to Mugabe to Singapore will insult most intelligent. Linking Mugabe to Malaysia is also wrong as we are much better off than Zimbabwe in spite that we still have plenty of works to be done.

One had food and jobs and a place to live called home .Also had the best education. Singapore has zero natural resources,give credit where credit is due. Yet tiny Singapore is a GIANT in trade ,banking and commerce. The Singapore DOLLAR buys more in Malaysia and the surrounding countries. Oppositions in Singapore did not simply disappear and never to be found again. They disappeared in Zimbabwe . Case has NO case to answer .Their stomach is FULL and have a higher standard of living. Try comparing Zimbabwe with Nigeria ,Iran,Pakistan. Benevolent democratic leadership,though at times maybe appear authoritarian,at least when we talk about food ,home and very high living standards far better than hiding behind "ketuanan" bullshit

Let's see what Singapore situation is. They don't have military equipment being sold off by armed personnel, ministers living in palaces beyond their means, multi-million ringgits public building collapsing before they are even occupied, a PM associated with sex and murder, judges who have no balls, senior police officers and civil servants who are millionaires, etc etc. In fact we haven,t heard the same of Zimbabwe either.