TR EMERITUS

Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “Bosses keen to pay more for locals but there’re limits: DPM” (Channel NewsAsia, Dec 10). It states that “Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean believes the operators and providers of essential services would like to get as many Singaporeans as possible to work for them by paying... 

SBS is equally FT biased. I went for a job interview because their pinoy engineer left the job. I was the only singaporean there, the rest are pinoys and indians (from India). I had to write an essay of no less than 1000 words to describe how I would contribute to the department and company and talk to the HR and IT managers.... 

Minister Lui Public transport fares affect most Singaporeans daily.  So quite understandably, people focused on what I said last week (6 Dec) on how a fare increase would allow the two transport operators to increase salaries of bus drivers. But what received less notice was my statement that when the fare review committee...