TR EMERITUS

Now that it is vote-harvesting season, the political gimmicks from the PAP’s bag of tricks are coming out thick and fast. The latest is Josephine Teo’s Statement that the Fair Consideration Framework (FCF) will be updated to prevent discriminatory hiring against Singaporeans. This is far too little too late. For years, Members... 

Singapore opened the floodgate for hundreds of thousands of Indian workers into the country when it inked the Comprehensive Economic Cooperative Agreement with India in 2005. With no parliamentary discussion, it's left to conjecture whether the means in pursuit of economic numbers were closet decisions by omniscient bureaucrats... 

But first a prosperous new year. Make money and stay healthy. Sorry back to “What’s so special about 2020?”. Every 60 years, a new decade according to the Western calendar* coincides with a year of the rat, the start of the 12-year cycle in the Chinese calendar. This last happened in 1960. 1990 was a relative quiet year....