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I WAS surprised that 10,000 permanent residents (PRs) are among the full-time workers who earn less than $1,000 a month ("Top 1% earn annual average of $700k"; Tuesday). I was always under the impression that the PR policy is meant to attract, at the very minimum, middle-income professionals and skilled workers to supplement... 

(This is another in a series of posts on the SDP Public Housing Plan. The series originally was begun with the intention to concentrate on the three main proposals of the SDP Public Housing Plan: affordable Non-Open Market Flats, availability via a buffer stock, and conversion to manage the transition. The series has now been... 

l refer to the report “MediShield deductibles up from next March” (Channel NewsAsia, Nov 12). [LINK] Deductible up to $2,000 It states that “Class B2 and C patients will have to pay MediShield deductibles of S$1,500 and S$2,000 respectively from 1 March 2013″. Deductibles up by 3 times historically? When MediShield was...