Seven ways to happiness
Dear Mr Dan Buettner, I refer to the 7 Dec 2010 Straits Times report of your seven tips to happiness. Tip No.1: Sleep between 7.5 to 8.5 hours every night According to the 7 Mar 2005 ACNielsen report "Sleepless in Asia: 40% of Asia Pacific Consumers; One in Two Singaporeans Awake Past Midnight", 59% of Singaporeans get only...
A happy nation of grumblers
Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 16 Dec 2010 article by Mr Jeremy Au Yong. Mr Au Yong points out that the claim by Mr Buettner of Singapore being one of the happiest in the world is based on comprehensive polls and studies over seven decades by Gallup, the World Values Survey and the World Database on Happiness. That unfortunately,...
Tourism receipts a better indicator than visitor arrivals
Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 9 Dec 2010 Straits Times letter by the Singapore Tourism Board's Mr Leong Yue Kheong. While visitor arrival growth is driven by many factors, we must take care to differentiate those factors which are important from those which are not so that we do not end up trumpeting factors that do not...
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