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For this year budget 2018, I only have one main wish-list for Mr Heng Swee Kiat our finance minister – better welfare for our elderly poor. To be fair, the elderly always get prime attention for the past few budgets but in reality there is nothing substantial in store for them. Except for the mediocre Silver Support Scheme... 

Each year, about 10,000 Singaporeans study and work abroad and many never want to return to a pressure-cooker environment whereby transport is a hassle with frequent break-down and more damagingly the ultra-expensive cost of living coupled with our super-low corporate wages. Meet Jess who went to the US at the age of 24 armed... 

I am proud that Singaporeans could protest against an issue that is race-related peacefully and calmly yesterday. We broke a few barriers too having conducted a silent sit-in protest for the first time ever in peace-time history and more significantly gathered amass for an event that has a race issue. There were fortunately...