TR EMERITUS

“440,000 CPF members qualify for matched top-ups” (Straits Times; 7 Jan 2021) is good news for the New Year. But this also unveiled the dark side of the CPF scheme. According to the CPF Board chief executive Augustine Lee, “About half of CPF members turning 55 today have yet to attain the Basic Retirement Sum. This matching... 

Andy Zhu (left) The Straits Times published an article entitled “Former Reform Party chairman Andy Zhu and others form new political party, Singapore United Party” at the end of which they said, “ they had reached out to [me] for comment’. This is yet another example of the tricks perpetrated by the state media in their... 

As far as our total fertility rate (TFR) is concerned, we started 2021 with very depressed news that out of >200 countries and territories worldwide, Singapore under the pap government again rank among the last few, if not the lowest and the last in international TFR standing. The TFR replacement level for each child bearing...