HDB lease buyback – $1.1m loss per Singaporean?
Taxi driver Tan Ah Tee, 65, and his wife Ong Soh Har, 62, prefer to keep their flat so they can leave it to their children. We refer to the article “HDB Lease Buyback Scheme changes: More cash a draw, but some prefer to bequeath their flats” (Straits Times, Sep 4). “Bend over backwards”? It states that “The revamp...
$350M Govt spent on FT students are talented ones
TR Emeritus, Let me clarify your misleading statement that you write to mislead readers here! The $350 millions every yr govt spend is for high talented foreign students come here study, not normal foreign students! It is money well spend, not wasted. Some of the students stay back in Singapore to contribute back to our country,...
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It was obvious the hike for the non-graduate civil servants was not meant to address the shameful Gini coefficient. The management executive officers - specifically those who work on policies and oversea operations - who are benefiting from the 5 pay cent increase this month are, by one account, in the over $10,000 a month salary...
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