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Yes. In fact, he is already collecting his pension at present, on top of his regular salary. You can find this if you google around the web, on the pension practices by the Singapore government for senior government leaders. I have seen the parliamentary clarifications before but cannot...

I used to have a North Indian FT scumleague who would even look down on his fellow FT from the same country. Those he looked down on were from the south, not unlike our Tamils. I used to give him numerous reamings over his poor quality work, laziness and a i-am-superior-human attitude. After two...

This shows that the PAP party discipline is still intact. Either through loyalty or being fully-paid for. It also shows that no one would want to openly sabo the old man's own candidate lest they have their heads cut off. People still fear lau lee (at least those within PAP) regardless of...

Someone needs to point out that during his term at GIC, his visionary leadership has resulted in sterling investments in companies such as Citigroup, UBS and a raft of US "AAA" mortgage securities issued by dubious SPVs. If the US government had allowed these companies to go bust back then the...

Dumb fuck driver. He probably thought that since the other car is Singaporean there is nothing to fear.

I don't think the paid online portion is so large a part of their revenue as to affect their overall earnings. The main reason is SPH management thinks that by restricting access online they can protect the circulation of the paper edition which is the source of their ad revenues, and this is...

I rather doubt there is anything very sinister. Its probably tied to the update of the electoral register they are doing now post GE-2011, which will be complete soon. In addition there are logistics issues to be sorted for an islandwide election. I expect the presidential election to be...

I went through the annual report on the SMRT and its listing of the operating agreements with LTA and found the following 1. Leasing rates are at 1% of passenger revenues for the older NSEW lines 2. Leasing rates are at 0.5% for the new soon-to-be-opened Circle Line (and this covers both...

Thanks for the clarification. I will check out SMRT's annual report. Given the perverse set of incentives it is no surprise then that SMRT has no incentive to improve any service quality. Even when they do not have to pay much for new capacity they probably will not want to operate more...

Well this might not be the best forum to ask this question - but does anyone know who is responsible for capacity investments into our transport network. I am not entirely clear on the responsibility of the privatised operators. For the MRT system, the capital to build and equip the system...

The truth is that our current police force is hopelessly inadequate when it comes to dealing with issues such as this. Poor staffing and leadership has taken its toll over the years. If you look at the quality of our policemen, especially those on the streets, you would be shaking heads at...

Re: Khaw: It will take until next election to undo supply-demand imbalance for HDB fl KBW is managing expectations. Politics 101. In any case the multi-headed monsters created by the PAP government asleep at the switch over the past 10 years will be a pretty intractable bunch. Look...

How about posting those articles here? TR is full of angry people and their articles reflect that. To change the system one needs a more sober look at things.

Mahathir would never have agreed because it was his favourite football to kick around (the other being the water issue). There is also considerable bad blood between him and LKY. During Mahathir's time as a premier there was a massive signboard installed over the entrance of the KTM station...

He is spending too much time rebutting things said online. You cannot win every argument. With his background where he used to be boss (even today in his ventures) it would be hard for him to swallow and agree to disagree. He forgot that he also has considerable goodwill from his work on...

I don't think Singapore got the perfect price for the lands. Neither would Malaysia consent to a deal where they were given little for something that is of great value to us. But at least they managed to meet somewhere in the middle and got this thing out of the way. Remember how LKY and GCT...

Hi scroobal Did you miss out completely on Tony Tan being a candidate? Having gone on about how a number of luminaries had been approched for the EP, has this surprised you? There is only one person in PAP who could have asked him to stand (or have the muscle to twist him arm hard enough)...

I wonder if GY had been "arm-twisted" into doing this by the PAP. Obviously, the PAP had no other candidate of value which could withstand TCB and his instant PAP-disgruntled grassroots machinery. Or Tan Kin Lian in terms of the goodwill he had picked up among Singaporeans, whatever the...

Testing for newbie

Lurker here... my own observation is that PAP has no candidate to offer. At least, none of the establishment types are willing to run, from what scroobal had already hinted. Given that their party's political capital has been totally wiped out, anyone they back must be able to stand on his own...