
Cleaners’ pay: NATO?
Increasing cleaners’ pay – No Action, Talk Only? Yet another new scheme to help cleaners? I refer to the article “New accreditation scheme for cleaning firms from next month” (Straits Times, Oct 19) It states that “One day after a tripartite group set basic starting salaries for cleaners, the Government announced on...

Four-room flat has remained at 90 sq m since mid-90s?
The 3 May 2012 Straits Times article "HDB hasn't shrunk flat sizes, says Khaw" reported that a four-room flat has remained at 90 sq m since the mid-90s [1]. The following are 310 HDB resale transactions of four-room flats between Sept 2011 and Aug 2012 where the lease date is 1995 or more recent and the floor size is between...

US Presidential Debate: High Stakes, High Drama
In the US, they don't do "conversations", they debate. Technology allowed me to watch the entire debate 'live' on my smartphone mid last week [website for live broadcast]. If you want to know who is leading in this presidential race, the best projections actually do not come from opinion polls that tells us the candidates are...
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