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Social change activists are often perceived as trouble-makers. This happens not only in Singapore but all around the world. However, this wrong perception is even more egregious in Singapore because Singaporeans have forgotten or suppressed their own local tradition of activism. The mistake is thus prevalent and stubborn. To... 

In alt media and social media, the HDB buy-back scheme (LBS) is dissed by people like Terry’s Indian goons and their fellow cybernuts. Here’s the perspective of a 75-yr old singleton who was a PUB technician and who has a resale HDB three-room flat. He recently opted to lease back his flat to the HDB. — He doesn’t have... 

Let say you get marry at 25 years old. When u buy a 99 years lease resale HDB for 400K using CPF. When you are retired , how is one able to top up the CPF using the lease buyback scheme which pays for remaining lease value rather than time appreciated asset. So you owe your own CPF account Money + accrued interest ? At 60 years...