TR EMERITUS

In a modern society like Singapore,  the focus on materialism, elitism, and financial rewards are  major factors that cause many families to break up. Financial issues remain the top cause of our sky high divorces here followed by communication and personality differences. Many of our  dual income families are  burdened... 

It seems an eternity for the hubristic MM Kee Kuan Yew to come out with a long-awaited and probably much-induced statement to say that "he stands corrected" vis-a-vis his disparaging remarks about the Malay-Muslims, but without an apology. It begs the question whether he is sincere in his pretentious utterance or that he is... 

In Parliament last week, PAP Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam claimed that there is still social mobility in Singapore, even if it may not be as fast as before. According to him, half of the pupils from families in the bottom third of the social-economic strata end up with PSLE scores that put them in the top two-thirds...