TR EMERITUS

PAP kept harping on meritocracy or this country will fail. This is also the reasons why they open doors to all sort of talents from third world to flood this country, in order for locals to experience real competition. While locals are losing their lunches so easily causing local unemployment to escalate higher and higher,... 

Since employment shrank by 258,700 in the last 12 months – how can “overall job prospects may be improving”? I refer to the article “Q3 labour report shows rise in job seekers unemployed for 25 weeks or more” (Straits Times, Dec 13). It states that “Overall job prospects may be improving, but a small – though... 

I refer to Liu Siok Ming’s  letter “Review HDB resale levy policy” (Straits Times, Oct 1, 2015). It states that “I was shocked to learn that the resale levy payable would amount to about $193,000, comprising $91,350 (22.5 per cent of the resale price of my first flat sale in December 1997) and accrued interest (5...