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Singapore used to be a clockwork country. Push a button, press a switch, turn on the tap, everything works. Singapore used to pride itself as a first world country, an oasis in the third world. It differentiated itself with world class quality and services, reliability and efficiency In just a few months, the public train... 

Prof Lim Chong Yah Two misconceptions of ER I Permit me to clear up two fallacies on Economic Restructuring I (ER I), now euphemistically termed Shock Therapy I (1979-81). One is that some learned and responsible opinion claimed that ER I was not successful. Official statistics show that Singapore had an average of 6.4-per-cent... 

Here are five reasons why the exploitation of low-wage migrant workers hurts Singaporeans’ interests. Wages are depressed When employers get away with paying extremely low wages, or worse, promising low wages, but in actual fact paying even less than that through all sorts of illegal deductions, there is a general lowering...