TR EMERITUS

During PM's speech last night, a topic of raising taxes was brought up. It was made to make you believe that we have no alternative but to raise taxes in the near future. But we don't have to take that route. All we need to do is to cut down the mad, mad, over expenditure on defence. As social spending rises, taxes will eventually... 

I refer to the article “MP Teo Ho Pin: Our net investment return of TC fund is 2.9%, better than inter-bank rate of 0.9%” (TR Emeritus Editorial, Aug 19). Investment loss $10.5 m? Investment and interest income loss in FY2008/2009 was $10.5 million. What was this due to? Need to increase S & CC now? On the town council’s... 

Over the years, the Singapore Government has enacted multiple policies to encourage child birth in the nation, and increase the fertility rate of Singaporeans. In this article, we will start off by introducing why the current approach is not working, and look at why we think Singapore’s leaders need to train their focus on...