Tax and tax a S$134m addiction
CNA reports that S’poreans spend S$134m on “bottled water addiction” when our tap water is perfectly safe to drink. A 600ml bottle of drinking water usually retails for about S$0.50 to S$1. According to PUB, the same amount of tap water only costs 0.1 cent, making it 500 to 1,000 times cheaper than bottled water. This...
Is it better to pay off debt or save money?
When Singaporeans are juggling debt, which is the smarter thing to do – pay off debts quickly, or save money for emergencies? If you have debt and no savings, you may be torn as which of the two to settle first. Without savings you can’t cope with emergencies, but the longer you retain debt the more interest you pay. Here...
Waz wrong, waz right with East Asian education systems
According to the head of PISA The latest round of Pisa results, published this week, show that many of the most disadvantaged students in China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Macau, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam perform as well as the highest-achieving quarter of students around the world. In the western world, only Estonia and...
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