The shocking poverty behind Singapore’s glamorous facade
I was literally shocked when I watched the recording of the roundtable on wages organised by the Straits Times on 30th November 2018. Professor Tommy Koh revealed in that programme that there are about 100,000 to 140,000 families who are living in Absolute Poverty conditions in Singapore and a further 20 to 35 percent of families...
Real reason why Terry of TOC kanna lim kopi?
To signal to him to stop publishing fake news on the public transport system? LOL. Let me explain. If you skim thru TOC’s headlines as regularly as I do, you are sure to get the impression that our public tpt system is on the verge of collapse and that most S’poreans think it sucks: bad and expensive. Well I personally find...
Useless Trade Union Leader
Zainal Bin Sapari responded to Prof Tommy Koh's comment on raising the workfare component by saying "it is not within my pay grade". He tried to explain it away by saying it is taken out of context and it doesn't mean he is unable to help the poor. The context is actually his incompetence. As the leader of NTUC, Assistant Secretary-General,...
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