SMRT Fiasco: A case of dumb and dumber
Recently, two foreign professionals, Swiss national Oliver Fricker and Briton Lloyd Dane Alexander broke into SMRT Changi Depot and vandalized a train with graffiti. Fricker was arrested a few days after a video of the vandalized train appeared on Youtube, while Alexander has fled the country. The Singapore government has since...
A Nation’s Shame
By Tan Keng Leng It was reported in the Friday, 19/02/2010 edition of The New Paper that serial sex offender Khairulhizam Din Ahmad had been convicted of robbing a 15-year old girl, hence called “Mariam”, after tricking her into having sex with him. Khairulhizam, who had a string of previous convictions before this, including...
The Singapore Government’s pay scale explained
By Tan Keng Leng Faithful readers of the Temasek Review have got one common grouse: why does a tiny country like Singapore have the highest-paid ministers in one of the most bloated cabinets in the world? To be fair, most Singaporeans don’t mind paying their cabinet ministers really high pay, provided they can deliver a double-digit...
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