TR EMERITUS

I refer to the 19 May 2014 TR Emeritus article “Shanmugam: The values of our children”. Mr Shanmugam claims that Singaporeans are lucky many of us have domestic help. But are we luckier than Westerners who earn twice as much as us and who can afford to have the wife stay at home to look after the children full time? Would... 

The pathetic plight of the PMETs did not happen overnight and is affecting a large pool of our PMETs. Many of them are highly qualified and experienced in their areas of expertise. Now we can hear daily diatribes and garbage about how these PMETs are not fit or did not have the skill sets to be reemployed in their fields of... 

We all have heard of the story of the emperor's new clothes - and that it was a child who pointed out that the emperor wore no clothes. Now, let me tell you, that was not the end of the story. They didn't tell you the whole story, because it was difficult to tell. The emperor did not continue marching to the end of his procession,...