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After 53 years of nation building, it is bloody tragic if our leaders have to be paid well for them not to be corrupt

I have argued consistently that the leaders of a country should be well-paid and Singapore gets it right, albeit for different reasons that the Government gives. However, I think that the debate on Ministerial salaries will never end as long as outdated justifications keep getting trotted out. Firstly, paying high salaries to...

Disappointing that PM Lee has not used the NDR to clarify whether we are owners or merely tenants of HDB flats

I would like to comment on Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s National Day Rally. He had conveniently ignored and kept silent about the basic premise that HDB ‘owners’ are merely tenants and not owners. The NDR is a golden opportunity to set the record clear before a population where 85% are HDB dwellers but he instead shied...

MP who owns Bentley strongly believes in meritocracy and still upset being denied Math prize in P5

It was reported that the white Bentley parked at Orchid Country Club featured inside a recent viral video actually belongs to Bishan-Toa Payoh MP Chong Kee Hiong. He is currently also the President of Orchid Country Club. It's not known how much he paid for his Bentley of model "Continental GTC V8 4.0A (Convertible)" but...