We Need to Resolve the HDB 99-Year Lease Problem. Here’s How.
Singaporeans have been concerned about the recent announcement by Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong that the value of older HDB flats will decline and, eventually, be worth nothing at the end of their 99-year lease. HDB owners go into heavy debt and spend their retirement savings paying off this debt only to find...
Just Whom is the PAP’s Education Policy Serving?
When he was Minister of State for Education, Dr Ng Eng Hen said that “Our universities must become engines of growth for our economy.” In 2012, Minister for Trade and Industry Lim Hng Kiang reinforced this point saying that our education system is “to build industry-relevant manpower capabilities for the economy.” We...
Dr Chee: The politics of elitism behind the JC-merger
AN EDUCATION MINISTRY official pleaded that the decision to merge eight junior colleges (JCs), ostensibly because of low enrollment and a falling birthrate. was made in agony. Falling birthrate? The public was having none of it. If a reduced population is the reason, Singaporeans asked, then why was a new JC, Eunoia, set up...
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