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What are our multi-million dollar ministers doing to counter the Kra Canal threat?

I disagree when people say that Singapore has no natural resources. Our strategic location at the tip of the Malayan peninsula is our best natural resources. It has helped us prosper over the centuries and spins off many other industries such as finance, warehousing and logistics, etc. and created hundreds of thousands of jobs...

Singaporeans who stage walk-out show why they are still sheep

The staff of Google Singapore are no sheep on the face of it because they walked out last Thursday to protest against the company’s handling of cases of alleged sexual misconduct. When have S’poreans got the balls to strike? Last strike here was when FTs working at SMRT went on strike. Moreover as Reuters staff showed, even...

Self-employed below 45: Workfare maximum $8 cash monthly?

I refer to Josephine Teo’s article “Workfare and the Singapore approach to tackling wage inequality” (Straits Times, Nov 6). It states that “Over the past decade, about 830,000 Singaporeans have benefited from the $5.5 billion disbursed. It is a permanent feature of our social security system, topping up salaries of...