TR EMERITUS

A friend told me about an encounter with a cleaner at a hawker centre. He chatted up the cleaner, who was hunchbacked and labouring over his task. Revealing that he was 82 years old, the cleaner’s parting shot, in Hokkien, was: “The country is rich but the people are poor.” More prescient words have hardly been spoken. The... 

In an address to Parliament by Minister for Trade and Industry, Chan Chun Sing, he stated that "different groups of Singaporeans have different concerns". He went on to say that  “no single measure will express an individual’s ‘cost of living’ pressures fully, given the different needs and wants, the evolving aspirations... 

The recent water and electricity hikes don’t juz hurt the “little” people as alt media is shouting and the MSM is whispering, they also hurt the businesses that employ the “little” people. This means smaller or no pay rises, and even retrenchments in spite of a growing economy. I’m exaggerating? Juz read the constructive,...