Checks & balance, values, morals & public duty: AIM saga?
I refer to the article “Parking charges for teachers stem from system of checks and balances: Ong Ye Kung” (Straits Times, May 25). It states that “The decision to charge teachers for parking is borne out of a public duty to abide by a “system of internal self-discipline” … Yet we have to respect our internal system...
The Abandonment of the High Speed Rail or HSR
Although I have written in praise of the High Speed Rail which will take me home to Seremban in less than an hour, I have since changed my view with Malaysia being in a RM1 Trillion debt. On top of this, Singapore has also said that it has insufficient money and needs more money to fund two mega projects without budget, namely...
Parliament: The ‘moral value’ of public policies?
I refer to the article “Make the language of morality our vernacular in policy matters” (Today, May 18). It states that “Today, Mr Speaker, I argue one simple idea – which is to rethink the way we evaluate ideas. We need to rethink the role of the market and of economic reasoning. For a long time, the economic reasoning...
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- Total Silence VERS on Time To De-Politicise Town Councils
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