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I will be blunt with my comments. Koh Poh Koon disclosed in Parliament that about 32,000 workers take home less than $1300 each month, a minimum wage (MW) sum lower than what was proposed by WP's Pritam Singh. So, what does that tell us? It told me a few things. One, setting our proposed MW at $1300 is too conservative. Singapore... 

Photo: theweek.in New Zealand’s Prime Minister, Ms. Jacinda Ardern has just won a landslide in New Zealand’s latest election. Ms. Ardern won some 49.1 percent of the votes cast and has 64 seats in the 120-seat parliament. It is, as the BBC reported, one of the rare occasions when a New Zealand Government has an outright... 

“150,000 Singaporeans from 1- and 2-room HDB flats to get grocery vouchers is not good news for neighborhood provision shops.” These lower income Singaporeans living in 1- and 2-room HDB flats are the natural customers of neighborhood provision shops due to proximity and convenience. The public media has announced that grocery...