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Archive for the ‘Opinions’ Category

The Pandemic Exposes the Fallacious and Mendacious Reasoning Behind the PAP’s Foreign Worker Policy

In a statement on 16 March 2021 Ministry of Manpower (MOM) revealed that total employment dropped by 166,000 in 2020. However more than 100% of this was accounted for by the drop in non-resident employment (-181.50000) while resident employment actually rose by 14,900. MOM’s presentation of statistics is confusing to say...

Singapore’s investments in Myanmar

Vivian Balakrishnan In response to WP’s questions on Singapore’s investments in Myanmar, Foreign Minister, Vivian Balakrishnan, says that Singapore should separate politics from business. He further adds that investment decisions are the prerogatives of business owners, that they should do so with eyes wide open and that...

The Real Celebrities Are – Politicians

One of my oldest friends who studied popular culture at the University of Southern California, told me once that he noticed that in Singapore, the real celebrities were politicians. My friend, who had spent a year taking up acting roles on local TV pointed out that while our home-grown media stars were “well known” they...

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