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DPM and Finance Minister Mr Tharman's comments that the $1.1B package is a subsidy for commuters instead of Private Transport Operators (PTOs) befuddles me. While I have no arguments about improving our public transport system, the injection of such a large sum of taxpayers' money into what is essentially a private enterprise... 

Dear Dr Balakrishnan and Mr Lui Tuck Yew, I seek you kind assistance to help resolve what seems to be a contradiction. Dr Balakrishnan, you said lowering rentals won't lead to lower hawker food prices because hawkers are people making a living who will charge what the market will bear [1]. Mr Lui, you said placing taxi COE under... 

Leong Sze Hian's letter to Business Times Published March 7, 2012 I REFER to the reply in parliament that the public hospitals were owed $48 million in arrears last year, accounting for 136,000 bills outstanding for two months or more. Despite writing off $90 million in FY 2008, FY 2009 and FY 2010, public hospitals’ patients...