TR EMERITUS

While our ang moh tua kees are KPKBing about hanging drug mules, detention without trial , LGBT rights and other ang moh preoccupations, they are missing something that will soon come here. Beijing wants to give every citizen a credit rating for everything.  Citizens’ ratings are to be linked with their identity-card numbers.... 

I refer to “Mothers the ‘pillars’ of families: PM Lee in Mother’s Day post”. The PAP government knows that talk is cheap and has kept on talking and talking about ‘one of the toughest jobs’. Many elderly mothers were once full-time housewives who do not have any retirement savings. If the government was ever sincere... 

Oxford University student Lavinia Woodward. Photograph: Lavinia Woodward As an anglophile, I’m glad to see that elitism and meritocracy still go hand in hand in England, unlike in S’pore where there’s elitism but no meitocracy even if unlike in England there’s supposed to be only two classes, not many like in England An...