I am a Singaporean, no longer a Chinese
I am a child of a Chinese immigrant. My grandparents came to Singapore long before I became a cell in my parent's body. Those were the days when Chinese immigrants, who saw no future in their motherland, decided to venture abroad to eke out a living for themselves and to build a new home for their families and off-springs. I...
BG Tan Chuan-Jin “promised” to deal with discriminatory hirings
International hotel group, Millennium & Copthorne International Ltd, has earlier put up a discriminatory job advertisement on Jobstreet to hire only "native PRC Chinese" for its Regional Sales Manager position: The advertisement caused a storm among netizens and it quickly went viral. Many felt that Singaporeans should...
More than 90% of households cannot buy flat with $1000 monthly income
I refer to the comments made by Tharman Shanmugaratnam that a family with income as low as $1,000 can purchase a flat, and the subsequent clarification by Tan Chuan Jin that it is possible to pay off over 30 years for a $100,000 2-room flat with the CPF housing grant and Additional Housing Grant. It is misleading to quote...
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