MM Lee: Social divide inevitable
Dear Mr Lee, I refer to your comments made at the Kent Ridge Ministerial forum as reported by Straits Times on 20 Oct 2009. You said that Singapore's approach is to leave the market to decide the right level of pay. But where is the market that decides your pay? Our political market is a virtual monopoly so you end...
The Singapore Government’s pay scale explained
By Tan Keng Leng Faithful readers of the Temasek Review have got one common grouse: why does a tiny country like Singapore have the highest-paid ministers in one of the most bloated cabinets in the world? To be fair, most Singaporeans don’t mind paying their cabinet ministers really high pay, provided they can deliver a double-digit...
Beyond the PAP: Thinking aloud
By Richard Lu I am apolitical. It is not important who or which party or parties gets into power ultimately. So long the government of the day gives back our dignity, our rights to freedom and restores true democracy to our beloved Singapore. Singaporeans are always fearful and skeptical – fearful that if an opposition...
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