Your HDB Ticking Time-bomb Lease – There is a Solution
HDB's CEO Dr Cheong Koon Hean said in a forum last week that buyers of resale flats should pay less for older flats because these flats have a lease of 99 years. This is bad news for Singaporeans who paid premium prices for the flats because we were promised that the value of our flats would appreciate over time. Moreover, many...
Altercation between Minister Shanmugam and Dr PJ Thum
The recent altercation between Shanmugam and PJ Thum roused much interest. Why was Shanmugam so inquisitorial and defensive of his party's political legacy, and why did PJ Thum accuse the PAP government of falsehood in perpetrating operation cold store in 1963 and operation spectrum in 1987? These questions are important for...
Who is the final arbiter of truth?
If you ask me about fake news, I think it is a scary thing. The only question here is, "Who is the final arbiter of truth?" Yesterday's grilling of Oxford's research fellow, Dr Thum Ping Tjin by our law minister Shanmugam for a rather relentless six hours hinted to this scary prospect. Both sides implicitly laid claim to being...
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