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The NTUC Secretary General Lim Swee Say again rejected calls for a minimum wage system, claiming that the existing wage model is better. Question is "better for whom" ? Let's try to understand him. The worker's basic wage which is already depressed low by cheap foreign workers, gets supplemented by the Workfare Income Supplement... 

Leong Sze Hian According to an article in Zao Bao (Mar 11), 80 per cent of hospital patients in Class C and B2 pay less than $100 of out-of-pocket expenses for their hospitalisation. It has been said that in “Statistics”, whenever you are given statistics to show that most people don’t have problems, you should also try... 

More than 80% of those age 35 and above earn less than $5,000? That's the information provided by Khaw in response to questions that the new scheme to allow singles earning $5,000 and below to buy new 2-room flats in non-mature estates directly from HDB, benefitted only a small group. With property and car prices reaching stratospheric...