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This is a two-part article by Leong Sze Hian and I where we analysed Budget 2014 and reveal that even in Budget 2014, the Singapore government is still not spending a single cent for Singaporeans, but not only that, are earning from us at the same time.  Budget 2014 was just recently announced last week. Is Budget 2014 truly... 

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...