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Inadequate Stimulus in FY2020   In my last blog post, written just before the Budget presentation, I pointed out that the economy had suffered as a result of the Government’s failure to provide enough stimulus. Finance Minister Heng had claimed to have spent almost $100 billion on help to Singaporean households and companies.... 

Even wild animals would not treat their preys the way these three adults treat this young helpless domestic worker from Myanmar. The crimes committed against foreign domestic workers have worsened since the early 1980s when Filipinos came to work as domestic workers. The worst abuses I handled as a lawyer then was sexual abuse.... 

This is Piang Ngaih Don, the domestic worker from Myanmar who was tortured and murdered in Singapore by her employers. I say this again, and it bears repeating: What kind of "first-world" country are we when we think that a basic, human need to have time to oneself is somehow a privilege, or something which someone else (our...