
A simple matter of defence
Permanent residents to serve national service? The issue of women serving NS is gaining currency but has been put down by Eng Hen, quoting Finland and Switzerland as role models. They don’t conscript women, so we can safely say we don’t need it too. Logical reasoning. While women should not be called up as NSwomen, they...

Not another pledge to increase low-wage workers’ pay?
Oh no, not yet another pledge to increase low-wage workers’ pay? I refer to the article “pledge to boost pay of low-wage workers” (Straits Times, Oct 30). Income growth different from Dept. of Statistics? In the accompanying Jobs and income growth table, it shows that Singapore’s Cumulative growth, real median household...

Double confirm: FTs displace S’poreans
More foreigners (Credit: Demoncratic) Following this, more evidence that we were misled that FTs created good jobs for locals? In fact, they displace locals, it seems. Or, at the very least, as one Siow tua kee activist and commentator (and no usual- suspect ranter) put it on Facebook: “So… is this an implicit admission...
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