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How much has the population rise in the last 14 years? If the real income growth of earners only expand by 1.5% and population size grow by, let say, 50% in aggregate, it means the marginal increase in real income was feeding a LOT more mouths and paying for a LOT more hospital bills. Everyone is worst off economically speaking.... 

Outsourcing of services to cheaper 3rd world countries for less important services have been going on for several decades and the business of outsourcing is still doing well as the business competitiveness keeps going lower and lower down the value chain, from a cheap country to another cheaper country. To the business that... 

Wong Soon Fong, former elected PAP legislative assemblyman died on 1 December in Thailand. He was 81. Wong joined the PAP in 1956 and was elected as a City Councillor in the same year. He left the PAP to join the Barisan Sosialis in 1961. On 2 Feb 1963 when Operation Coldstore saw the arrest of more than 133 members of the...