Why is Singapore’s public healthcare spending as a percentage of GDP so low?
I refer to the article “May to unveil £20bn a year boost to NHS spending” (The Guardian, Jun 16). It states that “Taxpayers are to be asked to help fund a £20bn a year injection of extra cash into the National Health Service by 2023-24 that will pay for thousands more doctors and nurses, while cutting cancer deaths...
Why do many parents lack ‘time’ with their children?
I refer to the article “Do not organise work activities that eat into family time, Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin urges employers” (Today, Jun 17). It states that “Employers can help fathers more by being conscious about organising work activities that do not eat into family time … Giving the example that employers can choose...
Annual pay gap between junior Ministers and junior civil servants as much as 67 times?
I refer to the article “Civil servants to get half-month mid-year bonus, one-off payments of $300 to $500″ (Straits Times, Jun 20). It states that “The last time civil servants got a one-off payment was in 2015, when each of them received $500 to mark Singapore’s 50th birthday. About 1,450 civil servants in Grades IV...
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