TR EMERITUS

Click to enlarge Dear Editor, When I renounced my Singapore citizenship, I was told that I was an ungrateful person without conscience. The officer reminded me that Singapore provided me with a world class education and all I did in return was to be a quitter and took all the money I earned in Singapore and bite the hand that... 

To consumers who think that GST is just 5% or 7% they are been fooled by PAP. This is how GST goes when I was trading in Sg from 1994-1997. Goods imported, we pay gst out front 5%. If the goods is Sgd 10 add 5% and it is landed cost of Sgd 10.50. Govt collect Sgd 0.50 out of every Sgd 10 import price. Then we marked up 20%-35%... 

Recently, I was reading the Straits Times (ST) dated 2nd March 2011, about old flats vacated for Selective En-bloc Redevelopment and being tendered out to private companies for rental to Singaporeans, PR and foreigners with employment and S-pass. It started me thinking about my situation. I have been living in a flat directly...