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NEA: Hawkers’ plight no issue – fees up 2.5 times since DPC started?

NEA: Hawkers’ plight no issue – fees up 2.5 times since DPC started?

I refer to the article “NEA defends operators: None of them has raised rental or operating costs” (theonlinecitizen, Oct 14). It states that “Recently, food guru KF Seetoh from Makansutra published a series of blogs highlighting the dire situation those hawkers operating under the Social Enterprise Hawker Centre (SEHC)... 

Latest data: Worsening HDB ethnic quota & 99-year problem?

Latest data: Worsening HDB ethnic quota & 99-year problem?

After writing “HDB resale flats cheaper than BTO flats?” (Oct 6) – the person   (who prefers to remain anonymous) who alerted me to these interesting HDB data in the first place, has just sent me the ‘Private Treaty Sales’ listing for October of just one property portal. There are 12 HDB ‘Bank Sale’. As this... 

‘Human capital’ good, ‘Inequality’ bad: Apples to oranges?

‘Human capital’ good, ‘Inequality’ bad: Apples to oranges?

I refer to the article “Heng slams Oxfam report on inequality, saying outcomes matter” (Straits Times, Oct 13). It states that “Outcomes, not measures of input, are what matters, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said yesterday, in a sharp criticism of the way a report arrived at its conclusion that Singapore was among the... 



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