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Sylvia Lim Brilliant speech by Slyvia Lim of Worker's Party worth another re-print. Parliamentary Speech on Minister's Pay - 11 Apr 2007 By Sylvia Lim, NCMP (WP) In the last 2 days, MPs have covered many aspects of this contentious issue of benchmarking Ministerial pay to the private sector at 2/3M48. The Member for Hougang... 

National Service (NS), or army conscription in Singapore, was first introduced in 1967 due to pressing issues such as national security after Singapore's "forced" independence in 1965. In 1971, the British completely pulled out of Singapore. It has been 41 years since the introduction of NS. Since then the world and Asia has... 

I notice many Singaporeans totally confuse themselves with the functions of politicians and the policy makers in civil service. This then creates in them a larger than life image of PAP politicians. The repeated criticism that I notice amongst Singaporeans against the opposition is that they cannot devise better policies than...