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Archive for the ‘I – P’ Category

TR columnist Ng Kok Lim rebuts LKY school of policy studies’ Dr Tan Khee Giap’s reply on UBS study

Background: Dr Tan Khee Giap and his team wrote an article, 'Figures, facts and fallacies' which was published on ST (3 May), refuting the figures and data on UBS Report. TRE columnist Ng Kok Lim refuted Dr Tan's article on TRE (25 May): https://www.tremeritus.net/2011/05/25/figures-facts-and-fallacies/ Dr Tan then replied...

More sacred cows to slaughter

Following on from the radical reshuffle that saw Messrs Lee Kuan Yew, Goh Chok Tong, Wong Kan Seng and Mah Bow Tan excluded from the new cabinet and the appointment of a committee to review ministerial salaries, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s efforts to transform the image of the PAP continued in earnest with his issuance...

If our economy ever falters, that is the end of Singapore

Dear readers, A colleague of mine showed me this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwGF8MV4nSo about parliamentary debates on ministerial salaries some years back. LKY's point then was that Singapore's trade is three and a half times its GDP, higher than that of Hong Kong's and much higher than those of Denmark's, Switzerland's...

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