TR EMERITUS

There seem to be 2 types of communication between the Singapore establishment and the Malaysian government. There are the face to face meetings and then there is the sending of messages through the media. Take for instance the High Speed Rail project - its cancellation was announced to the media by Mahathir before any communication... 

A friend told me about an encounter with a cleaner at a hawker centre. He chatted up the cleaner, who was hunchbacked and labouring over his task. Revealing that he was 82 years old, the cleaner’s parting shot, in Hokkien, was: “The country is rich but the people are poor.” More prescient words have hardly been spoken. The... 

In an address to Parliament by Minister for Trade and Industry, Chan Chun Sing, he stated that "different groups of Singaporeans have different concerns". He went on to say that  “no single measure will express an individual’s ‘cost of living’ pressures fully, given the different needs and wants, the evolving aspirations...