Elect kampong chiefs into Parliament?
Democracy is based on "one man one vote". At each general election, the voters vote for a person to represent their constituency in parliament. The candidate with the most votes is elected. However, this system of electing the representative of the voters does not appear to work well in many countries. Why? I perceive that this...
How has Singapore and Singaporean benefited from CECA?
In April 2017, India’s Information technology (IT) body Nasscom reported that there was a clampdown on Employment Pass (EP) applications by the Singapore Government and that the base of Indian techies in Singapore has shrunk. This it claimed was unfair under the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA). Nasscom...
Set price guidelines for many services
I am in favor of setting price guidelines for many services, e.g. health, repair work, tuition, transport, etc. I also like these price benchmarks to be placed in a website for easy reference. In some cases, the service providers have to abide by the guidelines, e.g. if they wish to get paid partially from government funds,...
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