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Lee Bee Wah We were told that paying our ministers top dollar was to compensate them for their sacrifice of foregoing big bucks in the private sector. So we thought that settled the issue. But when something like the Ridout controversy crops up, the rumblings we keep hearing are that ministers – already the world’s highest... 

One of the most prominent moments of the last week was getting in a screaming row over the phone with the godmother of a young man that we had just hired. She got the message that we were overworking him when she had told him to focus on his studies. The upshot of this argument was that we started behaving like divorced parents... 

Singapore businesses are too paranoid about security. They overdo their security protocols. They create unnecessary steps. They make life difficult for their customers and the public. The overloaded protocols also caused the platforms to behave erratically and to crash regularly. This has happened to our banks, commercial organizations...