TR EMERITUS

The most amazing thing about the discourse around the recent government committee recommendations on procurement problems of the bureaucracy here is two-fold: first, that it may have been a problem for some time and it seems that only recently this has finally come to light. The general public will draw its own conclusions as... 

The recent shenanigans over the joint NUS-Yale venture has little to do with promotion of critical thinking and challenging accepted paradigms that are failing us today. We have been witnessing a public display of pseudo-intellectual theatre (or, wayang). It is rather about the battle over branding and self-promotion. The promotion... 

An idea that comes to mind when thinking about profit sharing and re-investing what is earned back into society is how to give returns to those who have their monies in banks and the CPF. For banks, investment profits made by them should find their way back to members’ accounts as remuneration over and above paltry interest...