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For 16 years running, Singapore’s supreme power couple have been Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and wife Ho Ching. The year that PM Lee took the top job in 2004 was the year his wife became Temasek CEO. Singaporeans often wondered what the country would be like after Lee Kuan Yew. Since his passing in 2015, there has been... 

Mr Slyngstad In any country and business, a boss/owner will know — or has the unfettered right to know — the salaries of all his employees. The management who are appointed to manage state resources, invest tax monies, and citizens’ hard earned life savings are therefore, to all intents and purposes, the citizens’ employees. Like... 

The name Ho Ching represents clear, pure and lucid. But it is anything but pure and lucid judging from the voluminous amount of vitriolic critiques by Singaporeans on the esoteric concealment of her so-called obscenely astronomical salary Singaporeans and citizens of other democratic countries are simply mind-boggled how a democratic...