Lim: Our employment situation is one of world’s best
Minister Lim Swee Say with his famous toothpick (Photo: ST) MOM reported today (30 Jul) that the unemployment rate has edged up after trending downwards for the past 1 year, "but remained low". Preliminary estimates showed that the overall seasonally adjusted unemployment rate edged up from 1.8% in March 2015 to 2.0% in June...
ST reader: Raise fares to improve train service
The Straits Times Forum published an online letter by a Jonathan Toh Joo Khai yesterday ('Raise fares to improve train service', 29 Jul). Mr Toh suggested that to improve train services, SMRT should raise its fares, so as to keep up with inflation: Many people are asking what is the root cause of SMRT's frequent train breakdowns...
Train disruption due to ‘weak electrical resistance’ of insulator
LG (NS) Desmond Kuek, SMRT President and CEO At a media briefing in LTA HQ today (29 Jul), SMRT said that the massive train disruption on 7 Jul was due to "weak electrical resistance" of the train network's third rail insulator. The third rail supplies electrical power to trains. On 7 July about 7pm, both the North-South and...
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