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The recent hullabaloo in parliament about minimum wage and the bench mark of $1300 is in my opinion really a “sia suay” moment for Singapore. Let’s get the facts right. Firstly, $1300 per month is not a figure pluck from the air by WP MPs, it is a figure that came out from a survey by LKY School of Public Policy. The survey... 

Jamus Lim is already being kind when he calls Singapore's so-called labor union leaders "folksy". I would not call them that. They are useless, inept, tail-wagging puppies who are there only to serve their master's needs to keep wages down so that the PAP can keep creaming off the profits, by pressing down on workers. These... 

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,...