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Archive for the ‘Current Affairs’ Category

Mediacorp caves in to public pressure; broadcasts Rio Olympics ‘live’

Mediacorp is no private company: it is funded by taxpayers and belongs to every Singaporean. Singaporeans were outraged when told by none other than MCCY Minister Fu there would be no ‘live’ broadcast of the Rio Olympics. But of special importance to Singaporeans are our fellow citizens participating in swimming, shooting,...

Our CPF system needs more than just superificial changes

The recent recommendation to our CPF savings at age 55 does not carry much benefit to the saver except that now he can choose to invest in a higher-risked investment scheme not unlike that of the current CPFIS one. The Retirement Account (RA) now carries a fixed 4% interest rate till age 65 when he can start to withdraw a monthly...

Is the ownself-check-ownself system failing us now and are Singaporeans paying the price?

Singaporeans by now are getting used to faulty train lines, weekly murders and crowded malls. Nothing can shock us anymore and we somehow recover very fast after each adverse incident. Maybe our adversity quotient is very high, trained by the establishment to trust the very ones that we have put our faith in. Things have deteriorated...

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