
On subsidies and grants
I suspect that this government, its Ministers and its policy makers do not have a good enough grasp of how high cost of living is wrecking havoc on our working class and poor citizens at the ground level. Government grants and subsidies are welcoming and heartening gestures to help our citizens cope with the rising costs of...

Elect kampong chiefs into Parliament?
Democracy is based on "one man one vote". At each general election, the voters vote for a person to represent their constituency in parliament. The candidate with the most votes is elected. However, this system of electing the representative of the voters does not appear to work well in many countries. Why? I perceive that this...

How has Singapore and Singaporean benefited from CECA?
In April 2017, India’s Information technology (IT) body Nasscom reported that there was a clampdown on Employment Pass (EP) applications by the Singapore Government and that the base of Indian techies in Singapore has shrunk. This it claimed was unfair under the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA). Nasscom...
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