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I feel so lucky and proud to be a Singaporean

Watching Heng Swee Keat delivered his supplementary budget to help Singaporeans tide over this very challenging period of Covid-19 pandemic, I feel so lucky and proud to be a Singaporean. I know it deep in my heart that many bigger countries do not have the means and wherewithal to do even half of what Heng SK delivered yesterday....

Singaporeans Should Not Just Worry About Their Jobs. Courtesy of the PAP, Their Supposedly Safe Savings Are At Risk Too

With European equity markets down over 40% and US markets down over 35% Singaporeans must be wondering what has happened to our reserves. LKY always claimed that Singapore’s success was built on depriving Singaporeans of even the most basic social safety nets enjoyed by citizens of other countries much poorer than Singapore...

The Multi-ministry Task Force is playing a chess game – more for politics and economics than public health

The Multi-ministry Task Force is playing a chess game - more for politics and economics than public health. The ST headline (25-3-20): “Sweeping new measures to check virus spread” sounds more a political statement to bolster the crumbling image of the Task Force than to fight the virus to safeguard people’s health. And...