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Since I joined MND last year, I have often received suggestions and feedback from Singaporeans that HDB new flats should also be made available to singles.  Currently, they (above 35) can only buy resale flats, but not new HDB flats. To these requests, I have routinely given an interim reply: I hear you. I know your wishes... 

Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “Social spending – where will money come from?” (Straits Times, Sep 4). How much total reserves? It states that “If you add the three pools of reserves up, you get about $800 billion. A very modest 2 per cent return on that comes up to $16 billion a year. The Net Investment Returns... 

Many of our youths simply lack the confidence, or capability, to articulate an issue at a meeting which puts them at a huge disadvantage in this global world. WHEN I read of the Education Ministry’s long overdue plan to improve the standard of English in schools, I recall an incident that lies close to the subject. It touches...