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Kenneth Jeyaretnam It will come as no surprise to those who regularly read my blog that I am going to start critiquing this year’s budget by drawing attention to the various subterfuges that Singapore’s PAP ruling Party uses to disguise the true state of its government’s finances.  As usual the budget is an exercise in... 

What do you remember of your life and life in Singapore ten years ago? Today, Singaporeans are the unhappiest people in the world. But according to the World Values Survey (sample size 1,500+), Singaporeans were a very happy lot in 2002. When asked about their feeling of happiness, 28.8% reported that they were “very happy”... 

The NTUC Secretary General Lim Swee Say again rejected calls for a minimum wage system, claiming that the existing wage model is better. Question is "better for whom" ? Let's try to understand him. The worker's basic wage which is already depressed low by cheap foreign workers, gets supplemented by the Workfare Income Supplement...