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Didn't the Prime Ministar in his National Day Rally reminded you the Singapore in 1950s and 1960s? He failed to rally you or you've got amnesia iszit?

Reservist used to be 5 times after NS and all NSmen completed their NS reservist obligation before age 30. After one smart aleck BG Lee proposed to increase reservist training to 13 times and before age 40, everything changed. NSmen suffer job discrimination and marginalisation because of...

I have two former colleagues who went for the balloting for new flats and none were successful after a few tries. In the latest BTO exercise for Pongol Aug09, for every unit of 4-room flat there are 4 applicants and for every unit of 3-room flat there are 2.83 applicants. The demand for new...

Continue to work when they're sick will only facilitate the spread of H1N1 virus to your customers and to the wider community. Only short-sighted bosses like you will be happy to have sick employees back to work.

He has been sending out a few resumes and for a year, he only got 3 interviews. There are still some jobs around but companies are most probably hiring foreigners or PRs who do not need to serve NS. Pity this chap who is not choosy but could not get any job offers, got two young children to...

Does free market apply to NS conscription?

Asia will need to do more to boost domestic consumption as a driver for future growth to offset the fallen consumption levels in the West. With escalating housing cost, declining purchasing power and rising cost of living, where will the middle class find the extra cash to help boost S'pore economy?

According to your logic, removing the grant will help to cool down the HDB resale market? The current price escalation is due primarily to a housing shortage, cause by an underestimation of demand by HDB. Housing being a basic need, it is the govt's sole responsility to meet those needs.

Similar subsidies here mean you buy in year 2000 you enjoy $40k grant for a 4-room flat when the price was $200k. The same $40k grant will be given if you buy similar flat at $300k now. Shouldn't the grant be relative to the flat price? When the prices of new HDB flats escalated in tandem...

Singaporeans are starving, that's why they are not able to provide good service to customers.

Flat sizes have already come down over the years. Previously, a new four room flat had a size of 110 sq m in the 1990s; now, it is only 92 sq m. Interestingly, the average price back then was $100k; now it is $300k. Have our incomes grown so much?

In the aftermath of the asian financial crises, demand for flats slumped as many were laid off and back then, there wasn't a huge influx of PRs. The prices of HDB flats dipped due to an over supply. The current situation is an antithesis of what happened previously. HDB under supply and pent...

There are many s'poreans marrying foreigners. This can be seen from the statistics of children born with a foreign spouse. According to HDB rules, a s'pore citizen and a PR getting married can purchase a new flat. So if the HDB ramped up its building programme, this group, which is significant...

Up to a point, yes i agree with you that there will be new replacements. But escalating HDB prices will also be a huge burden to these new replacements as they need to take up huge bank loans. As india and china develop, in 15 years' time, the number is likely to dwindle. Singaporeans will be...

By increasing supply through building more new flats will take demand off the resale flats. This will help to cool down the resale market when many who need flats can move away from the resale market and buy direct from the HDB instead. With increasing demand, the best solution is to increase...

New indian-turned-citizens can always go back to their own motherland to retire as india allows its nationals who give up citizenships to live and own properties in india. When they make enough money here, they will most likely liquidate all their assets accumulated here to live comfortably...

My understanding is HDB builds 8,000 units yearly currently. This number needs to be reviewed as it is grossly inadequate to serve the average number of 40,000 babies born.

Unless supply of HDB flats is increased, whether PRs are allowed to buy direct from HDB will not solve the housing shortage. The solution is to increase the supply of HDB flats or dampen the demand significantly, otherwise the prices of HDB resale and new flats will keep on moving up.

So long one of the married couple is a singapore citizen, the other one can be PR.

Do they find s'pore a good enough place to die for? If they would recommend s'pore a place to die for then they serve NS and help to defend s'pore militarily.