Throwing our doors wide open is un-Singaporean too
I refer to the 18 Feb 2013 Straits Times letter “Closing door to foreigners is un-Singaporean” by Mr Simon Huang Minghui [1]. Mr Huang describes Singapore’s achievements with the over-used phrase “punch above its weight”. Singapore has been punching above its weight even during colonial days, yet there was never a...
Not owning a car is better quality living
One of the measures introduced in the 2013 Budget that will come down hard on the people is the control of car ownership. It hits the people in two ways, higher ARF, lower loan allowed and lesser time to repay. On face value many Sinkies aspiring to own a car as a convenient mode of transport will have red faces and veins protruding...
Democracy is dead
While many nations will not hesitate to proclaim that they are Democratic, indeed Democracy is the most reasonable and conceivable form of governance. This prompts us to understand the constitution of a Democratic method: that we trust some kind of institutional arrangement for aiming at a political decision through a series...
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