TR EMERITUS

In the Straits Times of 16 Aug 2012, the paper published two opposing views on the 50-year loan saga. One reader, Mr. Phillip Kwek, wrote that there is "Nothing wrong with 50-year housing loan", while the other was a piece by property reporter Esther Teo titled "To take or not to take a 50-year home loan". While Mr. Kwek's... 

In this richest nation in the world, our low income needy families have to seek assistance from the government to employ a maid.  At the same time, our maids, with higher starting pay, will likely to have more savings than our low income families. Is this a happy dilemma? Is this an unavoidable dilemma? Some may argue that... 

I refer to the Editorial “Tharman: Firms have difficulties finding S’porean workers. Really?” (TR Emeritus, Aug 11). Yearbook of Statistics 2012 Let’s take a look at the Department of Statistics' Yearbook of Statistics 2012, to see if there are any indicative clues as to why firms have difficulties finding Singaporean...