A third of students go to school with no pocket money to buy lunch?
Record No. of needy students helped. I refer to the article ”ST School Pocket Money Fund helps record number of needy students” (Straits Times, Oct 10). It states that ”Pocket money is given to students whose families meet the eligibility criteria of not more than $560 in monthly gross household per capita income.” Why...
Uber and Grab taxis and Khaw Boon Wan
Gintai wrote an article about the new ‘pah ong chia’ or private taxis in the more sophisticated form of Uber and Grab taxis and why they are providing unfair competition to the rejected PMEs now driving govt licenced and control taxis that required them to take a Taxi Vocational Licence(TVL) test. To qualify for a TVL one...
404 increase in hospital beds versus 1.44m increase in population?
Hospital opening ahead of schedule I refer to the article “Ng Teng Fong hospital opening ahead of schedule” (Sunday Times, Oct 11). It states that “The hospital, which took in its first patient on June 30, started operating with 365 beds. Today, 500 of its 700 beds are in use … and the adjoining 400-bed Jurong Community...
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