Singapore meritocracy has run its course
Former PM Mr Lee Kuan Yew said: "I do not accept that there are any disadvantages to meritocracy." - the South Asia Diaspora Convention, Resorts World Sentosa, Jul 22th 2011. Graph 1I will argue that meritocracy as envisaged by LKY has reached the limits of its efficacy. LKY had positioned meritocracy as the better ideology...
Are NSmen really daft?
Apparently many people in high places think so. In the news today some are talking about giving the NSmen a stake in country to fight and die for? Just wake up huh? When we first became an independent country, not yet a nation, the first and foremost thought in the minds of the founding leaders was to give the people a stake...
Oh no … not another labour dispute panel?
We refer to the article “More PMEs may get help in disputes with employers” (Straits Times, Apr 30). Recently … all of a sudden … so many new help schemes? It states that “More professionals who join unions may soon get help when they have problems with their employers, whether or not their companies are unionised...
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