TR EMERITUS

Dear TR As you are aware, many singaporeans are inherently afraid of casting a vote for the opposition party for fear that they will be "marked" by the PAP. This is especially true for all civil servants. When it is time to vote, they are faced with the choice of voting for the opposition or the PAP. They have no choice but... 

I am amused by the PUB director's reply ('Stemming floods: What PUB plans to do'; Sept3) to the report on the efforts by a Tessarina condominium resident, Dr Audrey Tan, to get it to do something about the flooding of Wilby Road, just outside the condo ('Flood campaigner's persistence pays off'; Aug29). If indeed PUB had plans... 

There have been four peaks in the property market (Q2 ’86 to Q2 ’96) and no turning point since then apart from intermittent slides. The Government's attitude has been this is part of the economic waves and generraly a good thing, and have been sky-high since, and everybody else just go along. A case of intellectual paralysis? Many...