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According to former PM Lee Kuan Yew – and quite a few employers – it was good to have brought in foreign workers to offset the decline. “Over time, Singaporeans had become less hard-driving and hard-striving,” Lee said in a 2011 interview. The hard-talking Lee then upset many people when he said that if Singaporeans... 

In a reply via Facebook to NSP member and activist, Ravi Philemon on the issue of making tissue sellers pay a license fee of $120, Vivian Balakrishnan is now claiming that NEA does not issue licenses for such activities. This is despite NEA stating on its Facebook that licensing is required and that thus far, it has issued licenses... 

I totally disagree with ST forum letter “A question of fairness” on the issue of Filipinos holding their national day celebrations in the heart of Orchard Road. ST forum letter writer, Jeffrey Law, should put the issue into perspective instead of: - calling some Singaporeans xenophobic - insisting we must be accommodating -...