Increase in public transport fares
The govt has announced a possible increase of 7% in public transport fares to cover higher operating cost. This increase is excessive. Here are my reasons. a) The govt now collects the fares for the bus operations and pay the operators a fee to operate the services. b) The train operators do not operate on this business model....
What exactly does this word ‘Radicalised’ mean?
According to the latest press release of the Ministry of Home Affairs, three Indonesian domestic workers who have been working in Singapore for between six to 13 years were issued with detention orders under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in September 2019. They were Anindia Afiyantari, Retno Hernayani, and Turmini. All three...
Was it wise for Singapore to align itself to the USA?
I read with concern Singapore's renewal of the Memorandum Of Understanding (MOU) with the United States' for its use of our military facilities in Singapore for a further 15 years. There is no question that we host thousands of American companies in Singapore and they in turn employ even more Singaporeans and the United States...
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