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Dr Christopher Balding Lost amid the Anton Casey mess was the announcement that SMRT would raise fares by more than 3% in 2014 and additional 3% in 2015. With yesterday's announcement that SMRT profit had fallen by more than 40%, SMRT appears destined to take increasingly stronger steps to maintain profitability.  While people... 

Sir Stamford Raffles I refer to the 29 Jan 2014 Straits Times letter “Timely to reinforce founding fathers’ values” [1] by Mr Georgie Lee Heng Fatt. Singapore’s big day is not 2015 but 2019 because 2015 isn’t our 50th birthday but our 50th anniversary of our divorce from Malaysia whereas 2019 is Singapore’s 200th... 

When news of Singapore's worst hospital bed crunch broke early this month, Health Minister Gan said he was "cognizant" of the problem and that the Government would add 3,700 beds by 2020 (attached report 14 January 2014). He said nothing new. It is an oft-quoted figure taken out of the Healthcare 2020 Masterplan that was released...