Badly needed CPF Reforms
Recently the govt announced another increase of CPF minimum sum(MS) to $131,000 from $123,000. For many who are unfamiliar, this sum seems somewhat astonishing and arbitrary but the rules and rationale for the minimum sum was laid out during Goh Chok Tong's time as PM in 2003. The goal was to raise minimum sum to $120K of...
Economic growth and human rights: Mutually exclusive?
Dr Vincent Wijeysingha was to speak at the Liberal International's 57th Congress held in Manila, Philippines, last week. The theme of the Congress was Human Rights and Trade. He was scheduled to speak in a panel "Economic growth and human tights - mutually exclusive?" chaired by the Secretary-General of European Financial Stability...
Design, Build and Sell Scam
The howl that was heard across the island was not about the sighting of a red moon, but the $880,000 price sticker for a 5-room Design, Build and Sell Scheme (DBSS) flat in Tampines. National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan could have chosen his words better when he commented about the outrage committed on HDB premises, "If...
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