TR EMERITUS

Mr Edwin Tong It was some performance by a minister in Parliament. The topic: English test for citizenship. Pritam Singh of the Workers’ Party mentioned the proposal again last Friday because a recent poll by ChannelNewsAsia found that a large majority of Singapore-born citizens were in favour of the test. In shrugging it... 

I have read in today online that USS Columbus, a nuclear submarine has docked at Changi Naval Base (CNB). I ask should we as citizens be concerned? Knowing Singaporeans, I know that I can safely wager that the large majority of them would again adopt a don't know don't care attitude partly due to their sucker mentality and partly... 

I share my views about the next stage in de-dollarization, i.e. countries with trade with each other using their own currencies instead of the USD. Several oil producers already agreed to sell oil to China in Chinese yuan (CNY). They can keep the CNY and use them to buy products from China in CNY. If they have excess CNY, they...