TR EMERITUS

Dear PM Lee,   I refer to your interview by Charlie Rose as reported by Straits Times on 16 Apr 2010.   You said our entire system is founded on meritocracy where you get the job because you are the best man and not because of connections. But according to a Straits Times report on 20 Oct 2009, your father said that China's... 

I was at the Singapore Buddhist Lodge at Kim Yam Road recently around noon and was utterly shocked to find many foreign construction workers enjoying lunch in the hall, where free meals are offered daily by the temple primarily for the devotees and the poor. These workers clad in construction uniforms and boots literally packed... 

The recent declaration by the Education Minister for a curriculum review of the Mother Tongue Language has frustrated me again. First of all, in a world where English is the number 1 spoken language, why is such emphasis being placed on a language that is at best, used on a daily basis for communication only? Let's face it,...