NS debate a spillover from unhappiness with FT influx
National Service Back in the days when I did my 2 years 4 months of National Service, it never crossed my mind whether the system was fair or unfair to us guys with regard to the opposite sex or to foreigners. That is not to say that I enjoyed NS. In fact, like many others, I think of it as the biggest waste of time in my life....
Understanding the US government shutdown
Dr Christopher Balding I have been getting questions from Chinese and Singaporean readers about the US government shutdown, so let me try and simplify and answer some of the questions I have been getting. Why did the US government shut down? The US government is marked by a strict separation of powers. The President heads the...
If tuition is unnecessary, why the supplementary and remedial classes?
It sounds so contradictory. The MOE as well as the PAP ministers all say the same thing. Tuition is not necessary. Ya, right. Then why are are there so many supplementary and/or remedial classes for students such that they have to be overworked? Ms Indranee Rajah, Senior Minister of State, Ministry of Education. She believes...
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