Heng: We’re not dissuading SGs from getting degrees
Education Minister Heng Swee Keat TRE earlier reported that DPM Teo Chee Hean is cautioning Singaporeans against chasing an academic degree (‘Teo: Degree no longer a ‘one-way ticket to success’‘). At the University of Manchester alumni dinner last week (2 Sep), he told the audience that while a degree used to be “considered...
Josephine: Speeds rose 7% per ERP dollar increase
Josephine Teo Defending the ERP system in Parliament yesterday (9 Sep), Senior Minister of State for Transport Josephine Teo cited figures to justify the "effectiveness of ERP". She said that more than three-quarters of the 74 ERP gantries have not had their rates changed in the last 3 years. Of the quarter of 74 ERP gantries...
LKY once said potential citizens are carefully vetted
Last month (29 Aug), quoting the Soufan Group which is a New York-based intelligence firm, the US Washington Post said that people from at least 81 countries are now fighting in Syria (‘At least 81 nationalities are fighting in Syria‘). Singapore has been cited as one of the 81 countries: Governments are worried that when...
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