Violence and peaceful protests in Singapore
Watching television yesterday about the protests in Hong Kong and the violence that erupted late in the night, I cannot help reflecting on Singapore’s history. Most of us grew up with the history that was taught in school. We simply believed that the unrests in Singapore in the 1950s and 60s were caused by communists and that...
Allow CPF savings to be fully withdrawn at age 55
Many people wants to have the right to take out their CPF savings at age 55. The government wants them to convert a "minimum sum" into a life annuity, call CPF Life, to be withdrawn as a monthly income from age 65 until death. I support the call for CPF to be allowed to be withdrawn in full from age 55 for the following reasons: a)...
The PAP’s Sandwich Generation
Earlier this year the term 'Graduate Poor' entered our lexicon, a damning indictment of the PAP’s failure to stimulate job opportunities for the young. And now we hear of another infamous PAP invention, ‘The Sandwich Generation’. This has nothing to do with Lee Hsien Loong’s cruel quip of having to steal another man’s...
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