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Since the 1997 Asian financial crisis, large scale immigration became a big problem in Singapore. Some supporters of the ruling PAP (People’s Action Party) regime claimed immigration was needed to maintain NS (National Service) manpower requirements. They pointed out that since 1984, the PAP regime’s efforts to raise the... 

The mismatch of Demand and Supply in the New HDB flat market due to MBT’s “caught off guard” has been transferred to Resale Market via this increase in grants for “lower income” couples. One must not look at the difference in prices of the flats in both New and Resale flat markets as just that difference. For every... 

A few days before Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong spoke  at the fifth anniversary celebrations of the Community Care Endowment Fund (ComCare) on 2 Dec 09, Ireland has set out its four-year plan  to make 15 billion euros in savings by 2014 hoping to bring down its record deficit (Reuters Nov 24). Most of the savings will be...