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Mah Bow Tan, former PAP Minister and President of the Football Association of Singapore, once set a target for the Singapore football team to reach the World Cup finals by 2010 just as how Goh Chok Tong targeted a Swiss standard of living for Singapore by 1999. But both were ill-fated and ill-conceived targets that never came... 

The plight of a visually impaired senior citizen denied government aid has put the spotlight on the work of social workers of late. While I don't doubt the good intentions of the social worker in question, I do wonder if an over reliance on frameworks and an overly fixed mindset has produced a rather unfair and inaccurate result. Based... 

The Press Secretary to the Minister for Social & Family Development Miss Karolyn Poon wrote a letter (‘System not perfect but has uplifted life of majority’) to the Straits Times’ Forum last week (4 Jul). The issue arose 2 weeks ago when social worker Sudha Nair argued that helping the poor also entails "questioning...