Govt denies inflow of FT workers depressed local wages
Mrs Cindy Keng, Director of Corporate Communications Division, MTI and Ms Chong Wan Yieng, Director of Corporate Communications Department, MOM, wrote a joint letter to ST today (16 Aug), debunking an ST article from Dr Tan Kong Yam ("Growth in a decade of shocks", 12 Aug). The 2 spokeswomen said, "We have embarked on major...
Dr Ng: Majority of NS-liable PRs do serve NS
Minister Ng Eng Hen Last month, a MP asked Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen that among the 532,000 Singapore permanent residents (PRs) in 2013, how many served NS and how many decided not to. Dr Ng replied that the total number of PRs in Singapore in 2013 or in any years is not an appropriate population to base queries or answers...
Contrasting views of Xi & Lee on GDP growth
Last July, Forbes reported [Link] that China’s President Xi Jinping delivered a speech to his party leaders in which he stressed that “we should no longer evaluate the performance of leaders simply by GDP growth. Instead, we should look at welfare improvement, social development and environmental indicators to evaluate leaders”. Over...
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