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Only 7.8% of students get subsidies? Further to my article “More subsidies for lower-income students?” (theonlinecitizen, Oct 23), I was puzzled by the additional statistics which the editors of theonlinecitizen had added to my article – that the percentage of students on subsidies was only about 7.8 per cent of the estimated... 

“Who will go after tampon throwers if we focus on the poor?” The government was today baffled by calls from social workers and experts to define an official poverty line, when the problem had been declared extinct a good twelve years ago. It was in 2001 when former diplomat Kishore Mahbubani proudly told the world: “There... 

This mass action is aimed at recruitment advertisements that discriminate against Singaporeans in favour of foreigners. Discriminatory job ads from La Fondue A new trend may be establishing itself in Singapore’s current affairs. Impatient citizens who feel the authorities are too slow or reluctant to act strongly against discriminating...