
Self-employed below 45: Workfare maximum $8 cash monthly?
I refer to Josephine Teo’s article “Workfare and the Singapore approach to tackling wage inequality” (Straits Times, Nov 6). It states that “Over the past decade, about 830,000 Singaporeans have benefited from the $5.5 billion disbursed. It is a permanent feature of our social security system, topping up salaries of...

We cannot be a successful financial hub with a moribund stock exchange
I was surprised to learn that the trading volume of Hong Kong Stock Exchange (HKSE) is 16 times of the volume in the Singapore Exchange (SGX). We know that Hong Kong has a bigger population than Singapore and benefits from its closeness to China, but I thought that a difference of 4 times would be justified but not 16 times. The...

Sounds like TRE cybernut’s ‘good’ twin
Or is it “evil” twin of TRE cybernut rabble rouser? You decide. Whatever, juz as nutty and moronic as TRE cybernut? What matters most is the will to carry on what has been laid down by our founding fathers. To the 30% who are agitating against our various programs such as our CPF, our housing programs – HDB – health,...
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