Double standards when we talk about foreign workers and lower-income Singaporean workers?
I refer to the article “Commentary: Don’t hold our treatment of foreign domestic workers to countries with lower standards” (Channel NewsAsia, Apr 21). After reading the above and as we are approaching Labour Day on 1 May – I simply took parts of the article and changed “foreign domestic worker” to “lower-income...
HDB: ‘Living density Google cannot find?
I refer to the HDB’s reply “13,700 people per sq km is living density, not population density” (Straits Times Forum, Apr 24) to Mr Cheang Peng Wah’s letter in ST Forum (20 Apr). It states that “Housing Board chief executive Cheong Koon Hean’s lecture was about how Singapore can anticipate its urban future and develop...
Government Not ‘On The Cheap’ Should Have Anticipated These
LKY, putting his case for very high pay for Ministers and top civil servants, etc., warned "Don't get government on the cheap". And GCT duly followed through, saying "You pay peanuts and you get monkeys". Well, they have gone on, presumably to pay for excellent governance. But then, we have had these two easy governance despite...
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