TR EMERITUS

I refer to the article “More Malay students benefit from Tertiary Tuition Fee Subsidy after income criteria revised” (Channel NewsAsia, Feb 18). Students who qualified for subsidy doubled It states that “The number of Malay students who benefited from the Tertiary Tuition Fee Subsidy (TTFS) more than doubled in 2012, after... 

In my earlier blogpost on healthcare funding, I highlighted that our government spending on healthcare is the lowest among the advanced economies in East Asia and Scandinavia, including Hong Kong, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The chart below shows that Singapore government spending on healthcare... 

Straits Times, 9 July 1986Someone took the trouble to sieve through the old newspaper and came up with a copy of the ST dated 9 Jul 86 with Yeo Ning Hong announcing the opening of the MRT. He said: One thing is certain… Because the Government will be paying for the construction of the stations and lines, fares on our MRT will...