Does citizenship make any difference?
What is a citizen’s pledge to be loyal to a country, to protect a country when one becomes a citizen of a country? A citizen of a country, by virtue of birth or choice, by immigration, is supposed to be loyal to that country, to defend that country if it goes to war. What are the official definitions to tell you what a citizen...
Pink Dot: Why was govt spooked?
28,000 people at a Pink Dot event is the equivalent of a crowd of 330,000 in the UK. or 1.7m in the US. Pretty impressive number then. FT columnist does the sums: Singapore’s annual Pink Dot gay pride gathering attracts big crowds. There were 28,000 people there last year. That is a large turnout in a country with a population...
Profitable to pay elderly poor to leave S’pore
Further to this, where I, tongue-in-cheek, suggested that the PAP administration should follow what Auckland in NZ is doing (paying the poor to leave the city) and pay the elderly poor, among others, to leave S’pore. After all, the cost of living is lower in neighbouring countries. A reader (see below) provides data which...
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