The secret of Ho Ching’s salary
Ho Ching, wife of PM Lee, was appointed as CEO of Temasek Holdings, the state sovereign fund, in 2004. Her salary as CEO has been a secret for 15 years. It has never been published. Most people assumed that she must have been drawing a very high salary. Some even speculated in the tens or hundreds of millions a year. They draw...
When the Government and its Ministers and Wives Are in Business, Business Comes First Not Consumers
State-owned ( but actually Ho Ching-controlled) CNA reported yesterday on a new Bill (the Point-to-Point (P2P) Passenger Transport Industry Bill) tabled in Parliament to regulate the private car-hire industry. I was immediately struck by a sentence near the end of the report which said that LTA intended to regulate not only...
How do you expect your changes to be implemented?
Someone asked me - Mr. Tan, you have made many suggestions to change many government policies and strategies. How do you expect to get these changes implemented, if you do not become the prime minister? Frankly, you chance of being PM is quite low, isn't it? Here is my reply. I cannot do much on my own, except to share my ideas...
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