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“150,000 Singaporeans from 1- and 2-room HDB flats to get grocery vouchers is not good news for neighborhood provision shops.” These lower income Singaporeans living in 1- and 2-room HDB flats are the natural customers of neighborhood provision shops due to proximity and convenience. The public media has announced that grocery... 

Singapore’s power structure is essentially an oligarchy or plutocracy of a very wealthy FamiLEE. It's a structural or systemic issue. A small group of people control and run Singapore. They have enough power to turn the country to benefit them and their cronies to the exclusion of others. They have become the only game in... 

I applaud Pritam Singh for pushing for minimum wage (MW) in Parliament for the weakest and most vulnerable low income Singaporean workers among us. To begin, Singapore is a very expensive place to live in and many of our very low income workers also have families to look after. I have never believed that today's very well-paid...