TR EMERITUS

The headlines scream "$6.6 billion bonanza" for households in the various forms of cash handouts, tax rebates and top-ups to help them battle the tsunami of rising costs waiting round the corner. What they don't put on the front pages is that Minister Teo Chee Hean is getting 5.4% extra for his Defence budget, a $620 million... 

Dear Singaporeans, I am a young Singaporean living and working in Australia for the last 7 years. Like many, I was a product of the highly efficient Singapore education production line. According to our world-class and oft praised education system (for which I am still grateful for), I was an average student, “streamed”... 

I have read most of the articles published both in Temasek Review and Online Citizen in critic of either the politicians or the government for not helping the poor, the ‘newly’ poor or not building enough HDB flats to cater the needs of a group of younger citizens to the influx of foreigners taking away their jobs. Let me...