TR EMERITUS

The government is launching a major review of its policies, the second in 10 years, to prevent further setbacks in the next general election. PM Lee Hsien Loong FACED with rising public discontent, the government is launching a major review of major policies in an apparent effort to regain lost political ground. The reappraisal,... 

In this richest nation in the world, our low income needy families have to seek assistance from the government to employ a maid.  At the same time, our maids, with higher starting pay, will likely to have more savings than our low income families. Is this a happy dilemma? Is this an unavoidable dilemma? Some may argue that... 

I refer to the Editorial “Tharman: Firms have difficulties finding S’porean workers. Really?” (TR Emeritus, Aug 11). Yearbook of Statistics 2012 Let’s take a look at the Department of Statistics' Yearbook of Statistics 2012, to see if there are any indicative clues as to why firms have difficulties finding Singaporean...