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The Government has decided to introduce a licensing regime which will require employers to pay cleaners a starting salary of no less than $1,000. It has done the right thing. The PAP will not admit that this is akin to setting a minimum wage, which it has always resisted. Nevertheless it is a positive development for workers... 

At the recent healthcare forum organised by The Online Citizen, some participants expressed the view that the problems regarding healthcare in Singapore are very complex and do not seem to be able to be solved in our lifetime. I could also detect the same frustration, angst and hopelessness amongst the attendants at the forum. However,... 

With a New Year comes new hope, the hope that things will change for the better. But hope without effort cannot change anything. Yet, change is what Singapore desperately needs - change from the way the government responds to our aspirations. Unfortunately, it seems that the more we call for change the more intransigent those...