
True-blue leaders hard to find
Paying high salaries to top professionals to entice them to serve as PAP leaders has long been a government strategy. In the past it worked but in today’s changed environment, less so. "Parachute leader", Major-General (NS) Chan Chun Sing - people who were taken from army barracks or an executive suite and turned...

Loving my children and my country
Not long ago when I attended my first women caucus of the Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats (CALD) in Batanes, Phlippines, I remember telling the participants that the SDP did not have a women's wing because of the small number of women in the party. (I said - to great laughter - that we were so few in number that the...

It hurts not those it’s supposed to help
I refer to the 13 Mar 2013 Straits Times letter “It hurts those it’s supposed to help” by Mr Patrick Liew Siow Gian [1]. Mr Liew feels that wages should be dictated by free market forces as it is the most productive, competitive and sustainable. Our experience has shown quite the reverse, that readily available cheap labour...
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