If I Were A Bukit Batok Resident . . .
Going by the fact that Bukit Batok residents voted overwhelmingly for PAP in the last General Election, it is fair to say that Dr Chee Soon Juan has an uphill task ahead of him. How tempting (and how easy) it is for those of us living elsewhere to wish that we could cast our ballots to send Dr Chee to Parliament. At the end...
Foreign workers hit all-time high?
I refer to the article “Unemployment rate for Singaporeans improves in first quarter: Manpower Ministry” (Straits Times, Apr 28). It states that “The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 1.9 per cent as of March 2016. The rate for citizens fell to 2.6 per cent, from 3 per cent in December, and that for Singaporeans...
0.9% p.a. real wage growth in 10 years!
I refer to the article “When wages race ahead of productivity: Should we worry?” (Sunday Times, Apr 24). 0.9% p.a. real wage growth in a decade? The real average wage growth was only 0.9 per cent per annum from 2004 to 2014 (Source: Ministry of Trade and Industry Economic Survey of Singapore 2015). To put this in perspective...
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