Income Inequality and How to Not Fix It
The spectre of income inequality (“the rich get richer, the poor get poorer”) has never been greater in recent years. This is not a problem confined to just Singapore, but a good chunk of the developed world as well. The dialogue of income inequality has been raging across the media in the US, UK and even China. Not one...
The silent revolution in my backyard
Dear Mr Ho Kwong Ping, I refer to your 19 Jan 2011 Straits Times column. You said the pragmatic genius of Singapore's political pioneers was to broaden the middle class massively and to co-opt the working class into adopting middle class lifestyles and mentalities. This you say is the socio-economic revolution you have searched...
Young S’poreans keen to hear MM Lee’s views
Dear Straits Times, I refer to the 16 Jan 2011 report on the public response to MM Lee's new book. It is inappropriate to refer to MM Lee as Singapore's founding leader as Singapore was never founded by MM Lee. Mr Cheo Ming Shen's referral to MM Lee as being the equivalent of Singapore's Nelson Mandela is also terribly wrong....
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