Khaw: Over 11,000 families bought ECs over 3-yr period
More than 11,000 Singaporean families purchased executive condominiums (ECs) from Q4 2010 to the same period last year, according to National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan. In a blog post, he said that HDB dwellers accounted for 86 percent of such buyers, while 55 percent bought an EC for the second time. Of the total figure,...
Double standards stink
On 16 February this year, about 100 Hong Kongers marched on the streets in a popular shopping district to call for curbs on the number of mainland China tourists. Their demand is very reasonable for a city as land scarce and overcrowded as Hong Kong: last year, there were close to 41 million mainland visitors to Hong Kong, averaging...
Do hospitals get enough subsidies?
The rules work against patients. We refer to Fionna Zhang’s letter ”Don’t up subsidised fees because of Medisave use” (My Paper, Apr 21). Medisave – approved means non-subsidised rates? It states that: ”But I was also told that since patients could now use their Medisave to pay for their mammograms, CGH was charging...
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