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陈振声吁请商家企业 协助低收入家庭顾客谨慎理财 社会及家庭发展部带代部长陈振声吁请商家企业，协助低收入家庭顾客谨慎理财。 也是丹戎巴葛集选区议员的陈振声今天拜访区内一户低收入家庭，见证本地家具及电气零售商Courts阁室亚洲和本地志愿团体"心件工程"合作，为这户家庭捐助总值5千元的家具、电气和礼券援助。 陈振声受访时说：他对这类私人业界和民间组织，协助社区弱势群体的合作关系，感到鼓舞。 “很高兴看到企业和我们携手来帮助这些比较低收入的家庭，在这企业可以扮演许多不同的角色，一方面他们可以捐出他们所卖的东西，另一方面，他们也通过让他们的... 

28 March 2013 At around lunchtime, I stepped into a Korean restaurant along Tanjong Pagar Road with a colleague. As we looked through the menu, we also “checked out” the servers in the restaurant. Were they locals? If they looked foreign, did they hold valid work passes? Food was obviously the last thing on our minds. Paying... 

Not long ago when I attended my first women caucus of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) in Batanes, Phlippines, I remember telling the participants that the SDP did not have a women's wing because of the small number of women in the party. (I said - to great laughter - that we were so few in number that the...