TR EMERITUS

I am writing to counter Mr Tan Kin Lian’s suggestion in his opinion piece - “Buy or rent a house?” on TR Emeritus. We have to tackle the root cause of the problem and not simply tell Singaporeans to bite the bullet and go for an alternative. So instead of suggesting that Singaporeans should rent a place to live in, Mr... 

Is it better to buy or rent a house? Most people think that it is better to buy a house to stay in. They lock in their housing cost and also have an appreciating asset. This is no longer the case. House prices have gone up so high. It cannot continue to go up at a high rate. We have now reached a point where house prices have... 

My latest indulgence on Netflix is “Servant of the People,” a Ukrainian political satire about how a simple school teacher gets propelled into the presidency after one of his students films him ranting about the corruption in politics. The show stars Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who would interestingly enough, become President of...