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OOB in MOH not doing anything since its setting up in 2008

I am a newly graduated optometrist. I have worked for 2 months full time in an established optical chain in Singapore. These 2 months have been a tough one and my hopes on providing eye care as an optometrist have since been jaded. I really hope that the Optometrists and Opticians Board can come up with tougher regulations in...

Management to Singaporean: Accept lower pay or we hire Chinese nationals

Dear Singaporeans, I am writing this with a heavy heart. I have been paying my monthly season parking fees to a friendly and helpful Singaporean car park attendant at a building in town and chatting with her about her work and life etc for the past three years. A few months ago, she told me that she was worried that she would...

What we can learn from Dr Chee Soon Juan

Dr Chee Soon Juan From my buddies in SDP, I am sad to inform the readers that the Chairman of the party,Gandhi Ambalam, has just being imprisoned. He is serving a one-week jail sentence for taking part in the Tak Boleh Tahan protest outside Parliament House in Mar 08. Once again, the authoritarian government of Singapore has...