Lessons from Dubai
To further curb hiring of unskilled foreigners, the $650 levy for every worker beyond the approved number for a building project has been upped to $950. Has Armageddon been averted? Or are the pruning measures too late in the implementation? In "Dubai, The Story of the World's Fastest City" author Jim Krane writes that 95% of...
Budget means little to younger lower-income S’poreans
Leong Sze Hian My name is John (not my real name). I am a 33 year old Singaporean worker earning $750 a month. Disposable income drop? Before the budget announcement, my take-home pay, after my 16 per cent employee CPF contribution was $630. After the budget’s changes, with the eventual full restoration of my employee CPF...
Going Green (Paper) – Not Just a Matter of Colour
More than 2 weeks have passed after Parliament has passed a motion approving the Population White Paper on 8th Feb 2013. More than a week has passed since the landmark public protest at Hong Lim Park on 16th Feb 2013, attended by more than 5000 angry Singaporeans. And yet, there remains no clarity, to-date, as to how the “debate”...
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