TR EMERITUS

This is a modern ‘rephrase’ from one of Karl Marx’s many jotted side notes. Needless to say, the verbiage and the twists that academics can spin with this is many folds and unfolds; the sometimes needless iterations. I would recommend reading on Paul Mason’s take on this. But for me, extrapolating from the above ‘rephrase’,... 

It may seem a small matter, but it has caused a large problem of gigantic proportion. I refer to the fear of the use of email. Some one or two decade ago, some "smart ass" in the government declared that email is "not safe". It can be hacked. So, someone in authority probably passed a regulation that forbid the use of email... 

Jamus Lim Jo Teo and employers must be relieved with the brouhaha over Jamus Lim’s “folksy wisdom” remark about minimum wage, which the ST is helping to spin. For one thing, it takes away the heat they have been getting recently about diminishing the “Singaporean core” of businesses with foreign workers. For another,...