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I refer to the 25 Feb 2017 Channel News Asia report “Raise water prices by as much as 100% to reflect production cost: Economist”. Water price hasn’t increased for 19 years • Professor Ng said that water prices have not been raised since 2000 – nearly two decades ago. • But the price of raw water bought from Malaysia... 

During the post-budget REACH wayang, SMOS for Finance Indranee Rajah tried to defend PAP’s arbitrary 30% increase in the price of water. Although the increase will trickle down to all goods and services, Indranee pretended she didn’t know fundamental economic concepts and said: “The cost of such goods should not and ought... 

Credit: rsf.org I refer to the Prime Minister’s interview on the BBC Hardtalk programme. Media reports have reported the following: “If (Singapore) was such a miserable place, you wouldn’t be interviewing me. You would be going down the streets and getting ‘vox pops’… people would be saying terrible things about...