TR EMERITUS

Please wait for my cue, and echo back! It’s rather astonishing that our MP’s have to wait for PM Lee’s cue, to state that one of the challenges Singaporeans are facing is the widening income gap. Why do MP’s have to waiting for our Prime ministers cue, before echoing back Singaporeans concerns? I was under that impression... 

The 2008 global crisis and its aftermath have not adversely impacted Singapore’s medium term growth performance. After only 1.4 per cent growth in 2008, and negative 2.0 per cent growth in 2009, the economy rebounded strongly in 2010, with the most recent projected growth rate of 14.8 per cent. The cyclical upturn in the global... 

Singapore state controlled newspaper Straits Times online edition of Jan 03, 2010 has the story "Chief Justice urges criminal lawyers to be ethical". In it, the Chief Justice of Singapore Chan Sek Keong, a Lee Kuan Yew minion, says that criminal lawyers should no longer appeal criminal cases unless meritorious, because otherwise...