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I refer to the article “Competition for Singapore as Japan legalises casinos” (Straits Times, Dec 17). It states that “After much political wrangling, the world’s third-largest economy passed a law in the wee hours of yesterday morning to allow casinos in the country, a move that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe hopes will... 

We often hear these days that the gig economy is growing. The same is true in Singapore. It is estimated that there are 200,000 self-employed and freelancers in Singapore. Some people may think that freelancers have it good. The impression is that freelancers have control of their time. They are their own bosses after all, right? But... 

Patrick Tay, one of the Labour MPs, wrote something in the NTUC blog about preparing for jobs of the future. Then StatesTimesReview (STR) suggested that the ideas in that article were plagiarised from Workers’ Party (WP). What happened? One of the ideas that Patrick wrote in that article was to provide “direct wage support...