PAP’s welfare politics vs global economic outlook (1/2)
Welfare or Pork Barrel Politics? A sudden special $500 ‘one-off” sweetener piggybacked on the mid-year Annual Variable Component (AVC) of 0.5 month bonus announced by the Public Service Division on 17 June 2015 did NOT come as a surprise to me. Packaged as a S50 celebration gift, it is neat and avoided the political embarassment...
NAC: Comic book undermines authority of Govt
Comic book “undermines the authority or legitimacy” of Gov’t: NAC Chan Heng Chee, chairman, NAC “The Art Of Charlie Chan Hock Chye” potentially “undermines the authority or legitimacy” of the Government, and it had also breached funding guidelines, the National Arts Council (NAC) told the press yesterday. The novel...
Tharman’s poor showing on BBC’s interview
Tharman and Sakur I watched the youtube video of the broadcast of Tharman being interviewed by BBC Hardtack host Stephen Sakur (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpwPciW74b8&spfreload=10), and my impressions on the entire episode is Soft Talk instead of Hard Talk. The takeaways from the video are the following : 1 ...
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