TR EMERITUS

Happy 51st birthday Singapore but I am not a proud Singaporean. There is no feeling of pride or nostaglia as the country celebrates yet another national day. Something is lost during the past few years as we saw less people smiling on the street or in the crowded trains. A foreign friend while visiting Singapore recently told... 

The recent recommendation to our CPF savings at age 55 does not carry much benefit to the saver except that now he can choose to invest in a higher-risked investment scheme not unlike that of the current CPFIS one. The Retirement Account (RA) now carries a fixed 4% interest rate till age 65 when he can start to withdraw a monthly... 

Singaporeans by now are getting used to faulty train lines, weekly murders and crowded malls. Nothing can shock us anymore and we somehow recover very fast after each adverse incident. Maybe our adversity quotient is very high, trained by the establishment to trust the very ones that we have put our faith in. Things have deteriorated...