TR EMERITUS

I refer to the article “Fairly diverse group gains direct school admission, about 60% live in HDB flats: MOE” (Straits Times, Feb 22). 81% reside in HDB flats? It states that “About 60 per cent of students who secured places in secondary schools through DSA over the last five years live in HDB flats, an MOE spokesman told... 

I refer to the article “‘Opportunities, jobs still available as long as S’poreans prepared to train’” (Today, Feb 15). Work hard for 1 – 3 % economic growth It states that “Urging Singaporeans not to be overly despondent about the state of the economy, labour chief and Tanjong Pagar Member of Parliament (MP) Chan... 

The public sector is about the largest purchaser of outsourced services and it is infamously inclined to award contracts to the cheapest and has scant regard for qualitative factors. Together with other abusive large companies, they are the real culprits for the bad state of low wage workers. It is nothing short of engaging...