TR EMERITUS

Kenneth Paul Tan wrote an article titled ‘How Singapore is fixing its meritocracy’ in the Today paper on 22 April. He described the history of how meritocracy first started in Singapore when education was the first leveler, where everyone of merit could get a scholarship and rose through the ranks and became a mandarin in... 

Does anyone bother to think how many Singaporeans out there that have enough training, education and experience to become the equivalent of Dr Winsemius to many third world developing countries? We have a very big pool of experts in many fields that would be most welcomed by developing countries to offer them advices in national... 

Dr Chee made a very alarming claim in his rally speech on Tuesday. He claimed: “In all of last year, the Government only created 100 jobs. Yes… you heard it right. 100 jobs for citizens and permanent residents that means one job per constituency.” Oh wow! Really that bad?! 100 new jobs in all of Singapore only last year?!...