270 election workers die from exhaustion
I read a report that 270 election workers die from exhaustion in the 2019 general election in Indonesia. click here. That sounds quite tragic. But I found some interested statistics: a) 17 million people were involved as election workers - officials, police and registed witnesses. Click here. b) The annual death rate of Indonesia...
Beneath DPM Heng’s eloquence, NTUC has failed miserably as a labour union
I generally like DPM Heng Swee Keat's speech at the May Day rally. I will just raise 2 points about NTUC and its leadership, with whom I am very disappointed with. At a forum on 29 November 2018, Professor Tommy Koh raised some issues with Singapore. Among them is the Progressive Wage Model (PWM) that needs to be scaled up beyond...
Is the FDA overreacting to a widespread environmental contaminant?
In July 2018, the food and drug administration (FDA) of the United States (US) announced a recall of the antihypertensive angiotensin receptor blocker (ARB) valsartan because of contamination with a cancer causing nitrosamine, N-nitrosodimethylamine (NDMA). Initially affecting only one Chinese factory, the recall has been expanded...
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