The Citizens Dilemma
@unquote In the DPM Tharman’s wrap-up speech on Budget 2012 debate yesterday (1 Mar), he rejected WP’s suggestion to increase Singapore’s healthcare spending to 6.1% of GDP in line with other first world developed countries. "Sir are you sure we are a first world country?. How do you define us as first world country when...
Oh what a tangled web we weave: MRT, ComfortDelgro and the Government
According to the Christian doctrine of the trinity, there is only one God but God is three persons: the Father, the Son ( Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit. But each person is God, whole and entire. Well our public transport system is some sort of trinity: the government*, ComfortDelgro and SMRT. Except while they are legally...
Singapore’s Unique Approach on “Foreign Talent”
The spate of criticism against the PRC “scholar” Sun Xu is an episode that is in long overdue, and I am surprised such an incident has not occurred much sooner. “Foreign talents” (and I use this phrase very loosely) imported by the PAP are no longer what they used to be like in the 1990s. Even the Singapore government...
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