TR EMERITUS

Is life in Singapore getting so stressful now, that people just forget how to be happy anymore? Last time, our grandparents and parents do all sorts of jobs on top of their day-to-day job to survive, and yet are able to raise so many kids, and still live happily as a family. Now, you see many people working long hours on their... 

I refer to the article “Women lose out to men in extra healthy years” (Straits Times, Jan 14). It states that “In 2015, life expectancy for women here was 84.9 years and for men, 80.4 years, making people here among the longest-living in the world. But women spend 10.7 per cent of their lives in ill health, and men 9.4... 

I refer to Calvin Cheng’s article in The Straits Times titled, “The Population White Paper – Time to revisit an unpopular policy?” “Since 2013, the Singapore Government has, out of political necessity, rolled back immigration and tightened the inflow of foreign labour; for all intents and purposes, it seems that...