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Dr Ng: Majority of NS-liable PRs do serve NS

Minister Ng Eng Hen Last month, a MP asked Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen that among the 532,000 Singapore permanent residents (PRs) in 2013, how many served NS and how many decided not to. Dr Ng replied that the total number of PRs in Singapore in 2013 or in any years is not an appropriate population to base queries or answers...

Contrasting views of Xi & Lee on GDP growth

Last July, Forbes reported [Link] that China’s President Xi Jinping delivered a speech to his party leaders in which he stressed that “we should no longer evaluate the performance of leaders simply by GDP growth. Instead, we should look at welfare improvement, social development and environmental indicators to evaluate leaders”. Over...

TR Emeritus is no longer self-sustainable

TRE needs a minimum of more than 24k a year to sustain itself. With more than 1/4 million page views and tens of thousand of visitors per day , the team@TR Emeritus had thought that the website would be self-sustainable in the long run, but unfortunately it was not to be. When TR Emeritus (TRE) was revived approximately 3 years...