TR EMERITUS

I want to share my thoughts about calls by some people for the government to release $5000/ from their CPF accounts to tide them over during this very difficult period. The call is a popular one, an understandable one and one that I fully empathise with, however, I have my reservations. One, not everybody has sufficient balance... 

30 years after Taiwan came out from authoritarian rule, it's now having conversations of how judges then used to be corrupt and did the work of the authoritarian ruling government. "Whereas grand justices would rule independently in a functioning democracy, they served as puppets of the authoritarian government during the Martial... 

Does the Government need to hold a national conversation to know what the people want? Will the participants be speaking honestly or will they seek to be politically correct, knowing that the press and television are watching. Stories of powerful leaders disguised as common men to understand how the masses feel is not uncommon,...