Budget: $5.2b or $8.8b surplus? Unemployment: 2.1 or 4.5%?
$5.2b Budget surplus From the Straits Times report – “Mr Heng said he expects a budget surplus of $5.2 billion for FY2016, or 1.3 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP). This is higher than the surplus of $3.4 billion – or 0.8 per cent of GDP – budgeted a year ago. However, excluding the government’s top-up...
50 chickens in Sin Ming more dangerous than pigeons in hawker centre?
Koh Poh Koon In Parliament, while the most anticipated speech is that of the Finance Minister on the 2017 Budget, Minister of State for National Development Koh Poh Koon also spoke in Parliament, explaining that the culling of animals will only be done as a last resort. This follows the recent public outcry over the culling...
Another Terrex saga coming our way?
Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan was quoted in reports yesterday as having came out and said that ASEAN is set on completing a set of framework for a code of conduct on maritime disputes to maintain peace and stability in the South China Sea. He was obviously referring to China. He even said that no one can control the agenda...
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