American chief of SICC issues veiled threats in response to tightening of foreign labour
SICC Chief Phillip Overmyer The PAP Govt has been gradually introducing policies to tighten foreign labour in Singapore. These include raising foreign worker levies, introducing stricter criteria for S Passes and Employment Passes, lowering the dependency ratio ceilings to hire foreign workers and more recently, raising the...
S’pore Press Freedom Ranking gets worse in the last few years
Freedom House ranks each country with a scoring system based on a scale of 0 to 100, a combined score of 0-30=Free, 31-60=Partly Free, 61-100=Not Free. Their studies are premised on Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes...
Statement on IMF loan judgement and appeal for donations
Kenneth Jeyaretnam On 28 June 2012 I wrote to Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the IMF (http://sonofadud.com/2012/07/01/an-open-letter-to-christine-lagarde-managing-director-of-the-imf/). In the letter I warned her of the consequences for the future of democracy of trampling on the constitutional rights of Singaporeans...
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