The vicious cycle of the unemployable, underemployed and unemployed
Singapore has had 50 years of good fortune, with good leaders in the past planting the right trees to provide shade and bearing fruits for today’s generation to benefit. The regional countries were not so fortunate and many of their people were unemployed or underemployed, ie unemployable for one reason or another. But they...
Tax and tax a S$134m addiction
CNA reports that S’poreans spend S$134m on “bottled water addiction” when our tap water is perfectly safe to drink. A 600ml bottle of drinking water usually retails for about S$0.50 to S$1. According to PUB, the same amount of tap water only costs 0.1 cent, making it 500 to 1,000 times cheaper than bottled water. This...
Waz wrong, waz right with East Asian education systems
According to the head of PISA The latest round of Pisa results, published this week, show that many of the most disadvantaged students in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam perform as well as the highest-achieving quarter of students around the world. In the western world, only Estonia and...
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