TR EMERITUS

JEM - ceiling collapse I quote below statement from an editorial article posted in TRE. Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for National Development Lee Bee Wah said that sometimes developers and contractors compromise on the quality of construction materials in order to lower costs. The tightening of foreign... 

Whose fault is it? One of the sociopolitical issues which irk me the most is the fact that the HDB (resale) prices has almost doubled over the past 6 years. Let’s recall that the simple reason behind this is that the PAP let in too many foreigners to push up demand which led to housing-bubble levels of prices. In 2008, they... 

Mr Leong Sze Hian Embracing diversity, redefining meritocracy? I refer to the article "Public Service ‘embracing diversity, redefining meritocracy’" (Today, Sep 18). It states that "Reiterating that a decreasing proportion of PSC scholars hail from academic powerhouses Raffles Institution (RI) and Hwa Chong Institution (HCI),...