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Dear TRE, Please take a look at this: [ LINK ] My contractor friend said this is his option if we want "affordable" HDB housing. I say that this Bengali style of piling has many compelling advantages and HDB must adopt it – the sooner the better. a. It also allows the Khaw Boon Wan for once to be transparent with the true... 

I once engaged an architect to build a house for me in Japan. When I received his quotation, I was shocked. His fee was at least 4 times higher than the most famous architect on earth. Not only that, he told me I also have to pay premium prices for his staff. He told me that his fees may seem obscenely astronomical, but once... 

As a Singaporean , I read with shock and concern in the article in the Straits Times on Tuesday 4th June 2013,  that Citibank Singapore employs nearly 40% Foreigners. How is this possible? How did it get to such a large level of 40%? Are the jobs at Citibank so specialized that only few qualified Singaporeans can do them?...