PM Lee’s pay is more than 40 times Singapore’s GDP per person
ON MONDAY July 5th Raila Odinga, Kenya's prime minister, rejected the pay increase he was awarded by the country's parliament last week. MPs had granted Mr Odinga a rise to nearly $430,000 a year, while giving themselves a 25% increase to $161,000. This boost would place Mr Odinga among the highest-paid political leaders in...
The value of Ministers and the value of money
The high salaries of ministers has been a contentious issue ever since they were ramped up over the years. This discussion is not whether it is right to pay such high salaries, but whether this policy is indeed good for the ordinary citizens. It has been reported that the median salary of Singaporeans is $2400 per month. A minister...
SFD to submit report on Singapore’s electoral system to UN
22 June 2010 Bangkok Singaporeans for Democracy`s (SFD) will be submitting an independent report on Singapore's electoral system to the UN's Universal Periodic Review (UPR) process set up in 2006 to review member countries' human rights record. Dr. James Gomez informed human rights officer Ms Hannah Wu and several of her colleagues...
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