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60% Wants To Emigrate!!!

On 28 September, Yahoo published an article, "Nearly 1 in 5 young Singaporeans want to emigrate: survey" which is available at the following url. What a misleading title! When you read further, it tells you that one in five wants to migrate now! And a third wants to migrate in five years! Strangely, the govt keeps telling the...

Electricity tariffs increased 18.8% year on year even as Singaporeans are desperately tightening their belts

In a press release on Saturday (28 Sep), SP group said that the electricity tariffs will increase by 0.48 cent per kilowatt hour (kWh) – or a 2.1% increase - for the period Oct to Dec 2018. The current rate of 23.65 cents per kWh will be increased to 24.13 cents. This marks the 4th consecutive time this year that the tariffs...

What’s the point of higher interest rates on some CPF accounts, when most Singaporeans may not get to enjoy it?

I refer to the article “4% rate on some CPF accounts stays until end 2019” (Straits Times, Sep 28). It states that “The Government has further extended the 4 per cent floor rate for interest earned on all Special, Medisave and Retirement Account monies until the end of next year. Before the extension, the current 4 per...