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Wrong policemen-to-residents ratio

Wrong policemen-to-residents ratio

Commissioner of Police Ng Joo Hee I refer to the 26 Mar 2014 Straits Times report “1,000 more cops needed to boost police force: Police chief” [1]. The report stated that Singapore currently has 163 police officers for every 100,000 residents based on 8,784 police officers and a population of 5,400,000. This statistics is... 

The plight of Singapore’s aging, jobless PMETs

The plight of Singapore’s aging, jobless PMETs

We have seen close to a hundred jobless PMETs by now for this year and it looks like a new record since our annual average is about 200 clients for the past five years. The emails just come flooding in and maybe our two protest events on the 6.9 million Population White Paper have generated much publicity for our services... 

Cost-of-living is political

Cost-of-living is political

In an exchange that is worth some attention, we have Ng Kok Lim giving a rebuttal to an economist (Martin Bodenstein) from NUS on the latter’s justification of his version of neoclassical economics which is a form of neocolonial economics. Bodenstein gave a response (it appears in the comments section below NKL’s post) which... 



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