
0.9% p.a. real wage growth in 10 years!
I refer to the article “When wages race ahead of productivity: Should we worry?” (Sunday Times, Apr 24). 0.9% p.a. real wage growth in a decade? The real average wage growth was only 0.9 per cent per annum from 2004 to 2014 (Source: Ministry of Trade and Industry Economic Survey of Singapore 2015). To put this in perspective...

The very thing LKY dreaded
Lee Kuan Yew once said in an interview: “It’s the friendships I made and the close family ties I nurtured that have provided me with that sense of satisfaction at a life well lived, and have made me what I am.” Clearly, family ties and relationships meant the world to LKY. In his own words, it gave him the sense of a life...

Political dud should stay out of SDP’s business
Lina Chiam Lina Chiam is not and will never be like her husband. Despite Potong Pasir being an opposition stronghold for years and years, the moment Chiam left for bigger GRC ambitions, it fell like a deck a cards. This shows that Lina cannot make it as a politician and should stop riding on the coat-tails of her husband for...
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