TR EMERITUS

TODAY’s headline “Foreign worker curbs to reduce income disparity” is not only misleading, it severely under-estimates the intricacy and scope of widening income gap between the rich and poor in our society. While we applaud the tightening of foreign workers policies to reduce blue-collar labour competition, we are sceptical... 

Once upon a time, PAP leaders spoke of how ministers should be junzi, gentlemen. “Dr Chee has stood for elections thrice – and lost badly all three times, once receiving just 20 per cent of the vote,” the Minister of Social and Family Development (MSF), Chan Chun Sing, wrote in his letter to the Huffington Post on 15... 

Wide powers to collect MediShield Life premiums According to the Straits Times news report “Parliament: MediShield Life Scheme Bill gives wide-ranging powers to administrator (Jan 19) – “The Bill also gives the national insurance administrator the same powers as that of the Inland Revenue Authority of Singapore to recover...