Refuting PUB Expert Panel that increase in rainfall intensity contributes to flooding
Dear expert panel, I refer to the 12 Jan 2012 Straits Times report "Annual rainfall is increasing here: Experts" [1]. It was reported that rainfall increased by 15mm a year on average between 1968 and 2008. The table below was constructed using government rainfall data [2]. It shows that by shifting the years by one or two,...
Should Petain Road be renamed?
Dear professor Tommy Koh, I refer to your 20 Mar 2012 Straits Times article "Should Petain Road be renamed? [13]" You said the French Army had been progressively degraded after the First World War due to budgetary cuts. But between 1920 and 1938, French military spending was 4.3% of GDP, higher than Germany's 3.3% over the same...
Counter proposal to Tharman: Use $1.1 billion bus package to buy back SBS
Dear Mr Tharman, I refer to paragraph 109 of your Budget 2012 round up speech [1] on the $1.1 billion government package to buy and operate 550 new buses. A check on the SGX website on 17 Mar 2012 showed that SBS shares last transacted at $1.71. Since there are currently 308,629,766 SBS shares issued [2], the current SBS market...
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