Why is the jobless rate for cleaners high if there’s a shortage?
Leong Sze Hian We often read that Singaporeans do not want to be cleaners (‘Where have the cleaners gone?’; Mon, 26 Mar, ST). If that is so, why is it that the unemployment rate for cleaners, labourers and related workers, at 5.1 per cent, was the second highest among all job categories, according to the Ministry of Manpower’s...
‘Like it or not, unless we have more babies, we need to accept migrants’ – Part III of III
Lee Kuan Yew: "Like it or not, unless we have more babies, we need to accept migrants" Part II of my write up on this series dealt with issues of escalating technology, cockroach capitalism, globalization change, resources constraints particularly “peak oil” which will prove severely detrimental to Singapore’s...
Democracy does not guarantee success
The news about Indonesia’s failure to cut fuel subsidy prompts me to write this. Winston Churchill once said: “The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” In my view, democracy is just a tool for a country to change governments without going through a revolution. It does not...
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