5.9 million or 6.9 million does matter
I refer to the 14 Feb 2013 Straits Times letter by Mr Daniel Chia [1]. Mr Chia says that whether it is 5.9 million or 6.9 million doesn’t make a difference; that the White Paper is just a master plan; no one knows for sure if the figure of 6.9 million would be hit; the nation needs to plan for the next 10 to 20 years and the...
Not as bad as Mr Khaw makes it out to be
I refer to the 7 Feb 2013 Straits Times report on Mr Khaw’s recent parliament comments [1]. Mr Khaw said that Workers’ Party’s alternative road map will badly affect his housing plan to deliver 200,000 new homes in the next four years. During the period 1996 to 2000, 157,919 new homes were built [2]. The average number...
The White Paper protest: Starting them young
The best thing that happened at the organized protest at Hong Lim Park which saw about four thousand participants was the presence of children holding placards. This is a good sign. The protest by their parents and elders over the population White Paper is something the kids may not quite understand yet, but the fact is the...
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