Pay more for public transport soon?
Speaking in Parliament, PAP Transport Minister and official story-teller, Khaw Boon Wan said that the upcoming fare formula revision would need to factor in the increasing burden on the government (under the disguised term of "taxpayers") in injecting subsidies into the public transport system. Touching on the new bus contracting...
Had Singapore been a communist country
This morning I started pondering over what Singapore could have been like, had it become a communist country half a century ago. The following might really have happened: 1) there would be social housing; 2) men would be conscripted for two years or more of their lives as a form of social engineering; trade unions would be controlled...
Does the government understand the struggles of the working class?
Last evening, after listening to the budget broadcast, I went to have an early dinner at the coffee shop near my place. As the dinner crowd has not come in, I had an opportunity to strike up a short conversation with Bo Huat (in his late sixties), who runs my favourite wanton noodle stall with his wife from 7 am to 3 pm and...
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