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Inequality has risen but, purportedly, so have incomes. In today’s ST front page, Tharman listed 5 priorities of govt policies that in a way are related to Hsien Loong’s NDR speech on a comprehensive health care scheme for the senior Singaporeans. Tharman filled in some meat to that general policy change and direction, and... 

Thanks to Janice for the link After writing “The hunt for MOM labour data” (theonlinecitizen, Aug 23), a reader, Janice Heng was very helpful in pointing out (through her facebook posting) the link to the Ministry of  Manpower’s (MOM) web site which has the listing of the occupational wages data. Harder to do analysis? However,... 

There has been much discussion on the defamation suit brought by the Council for Private Education (CPE), a statutory body under the Ministry of Education, against blogger and former student, Ms Han Hui Hui. This raises the question as to whether the Government should sue citizens for defamation. If the Government, which has...