TR EMERITUS

The pathetic plight of the PMETs did not happen overnight and is affecting a large pool of our PMETs. Many of them are highly qualified and experienced in their areas of expertise. Now we can hear daily diatribes and garbage about how these PMETs are not fit or did not have the skill sets to be reemployed in their fields of... 

This is Ibaraki, the garden of Japan. The deep alluvial soils can produce up to five vegetable crops a year if properly looked after … a line of young men are bent double, a knife in one hand a basket in the other. They are rapidly cutting the tall, green spinach and placing each bunch carefully in a basket. The only Japanese... 

PM Lee I refer to the 10 Feb 2014 Straits Times report “PM Lee outlines health-care package for 450,000 pioneers”. PM Lee reportedly paid tribute to those who were at least 16 years old in 1965 as the pioneers who built the Singapore nation from its infancy. But the Singapore of 1965 had been thriving and prospering for...