Khaw’s performance as Transport Minister, one year later
One obvious difference between the current and past MOT ministers is that Lui Tuck Yew is more honest and transparent. You notice that whenever there was a train disruption, Lui would apologize to the commuters for the inconvenience and delays caused and even went down to affected locations. After years of attempts to fix the...
The flood of foreigners?
My regular insider, ES sent me the following very interesting jobs statistics extracted from a Parliamentary reply on 14 August 2003. 1 foreign job = 9 local jobs? From 1998 to 2002 – the employment change for locals and foreigners was 93,100 and 8,900 respectively. This means that for every one foreign job added – nine...
Why are PRCs allowed to keep dual citizenship in Singapore?
I was offered a 3 months contract job in a local construction company which is fully owned by China PRC, now a citizen, and run the China way. All my full time colleagues are China PR. I am the only local contract staff there to replace a PR who was on maternity leave. During my 3 months, I was surprise that 4 individual...
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