TR EMERITUS

The typical approach of the government to an economic slowdown is "train workers with new capabilities". We have tried this approach before. It is largely wasteful and ineffective. Are there other ways to deal with the situation? Here are my ideas. a) Give subsidies to business to reduce their business cost, e.g. rental and... 

State-owned ( but actually Ho Ching-controlled) CNA reported yesterday on a new Bill (the Point-to-Point (P2P) Passenger Transport Industry Bill) tabled in Parliament to regulate the private car-hire industry. I was immediately struck by a sentence near the end of the report which said that LTA intended to regulate not only... 

Someone asked me - Mr. Tan, you have made many suggestions to change many government policies and strategies. How do you expect to get these changes implemented, if you do not become the prime minister? Frankly, you chance of being PM is quite low, isn't it? Here is my reply. I cannot do much on my own, except to share my ideas...