SG govt made surplus of S$187B from 2005-2012?
According to the Singapore government’s latest budget statement ( LINK ), the government’s budget surplus was SGD 3.86 bn (SGD 3.61 bn before NIRC and top ups to endowment and trust funds) for 2012. However, according to the “Monthly Digest of Statistics Singapore” published by the Department of Statistics, the same...
NTUC – The snake that eats its own tail
NTUC. The snake that eats its own tail. The union employer that abuses its own staff. It is hard to imagine a more stunning demonstration of how un-fit for purpose Singapore’s “tripartite” labour model really is. In fact, if you made this up as a hypothetical example of what could go wrong with employer-employee-union...
PAP in 2016: Reduced Majority or Voted OUT?
None of us are paid a single cent for contributing our opinions to TR Emeritus (TRE). But every day you will read many many articles and opinions contributed by the so-called common people of Singapore. These people are compelled by their patriotism to voice out what they deemed as the incompetence of the PAP in governing Singapore...
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