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Mr. Ngiam Tong Dow, one of Singapore’s most prominent civil servants died on 20 August 2020 at the age of 83. Mr. Ngiam, who had been ill for around four years, was what we called a “pioneer” in the civil service and he spent 40-years at the heart of our governmental decision-making process as a senior civil servant. He... 

Of all the so-called job support schemes administered by governments all over the world, ours is the only one that does not require businesses to apply for the support but given to each and every one of them automatically. The question has got to be asked: why is the government so generous? This is especially perplexing because... 

COVID-19 has laid bare the country’s worst-kept secret – foreigners have taken so many of the plum jobs in this country that in key sectors like banking, they form the majority in top management positions. Singapore has long become the land of milk and honey for the talented and very often the not-so-talented as well. We...