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Only in this country that people feel proud when labour chief speaks out on what is essentially his job. All the regulations and changes these years on MVP, AVP, NTUC, CPF, and all labour chief can say is to express disappointment, and we are supposed to be proud of him? And you Hunter are still...

DBS retrenchment shows our tripartitie system based on trust does not work. There is no use for MVP, AVP that are not enforceable. These are empty talks. Citibank Korea has a strong labour union, they cannot retrench them but, offer the staff voluntary early retirement. Upon being jobless, the...

The best opposition in spore are those you have not heard about.

While I do not wish to see anyone in jail, this Gopalan's strategy of returning to deliberately challenge Singapore's law as a US citizen looks like it might be working. What would have been the decision if he was a Singaporean instead? I am kind of disappointed with the leniency shown to a...

Are they supported by NTUC?

Only Dao Heng to my knowledge. The government always bemoaned how hard it was to attract talents.Actually there is an irony. Normally, the GLCs have retired army generals, politicians and scholars parachuting into leadership positions, as such at executive level, few foreigners like to stay on...

You are not wrong in general. Jackson, however, is a bit different from the usual scholars and generals parachuting in. He was a veteran Hong Kong banker and was brought in to help DBS established a foothold in the notoriously difficult Hong Kong market (which he did via the successful...

Starting a blog or a website is nothing like registering a political party yourself. Once you do that you will face a mammoth of challenges, finding jobs hard to come by, friends start to distance themselves etc. What you are doing is just a toy, be more respectful of other people.

So I see, just starting out... To think that you have the audacity to claim established opposition parties for being a wayang show when you are only starting to get involve. Perhaps someday when you do join in the fray and were at the receving ends of endless remarks would you come to...

After Ma Ying Jiu was elected, he has praised Singapore. Most foreigners like Ma, see the beauty of our country that Singaporeans took for granted. We also cannot keep blaming the government for lousy oppositions we have here.

Jackson Tai is the type of top-level foreign talents that Singapore needs and at the same time, always find it hard to attract and retain them.

Taxi drivers can only be Singaporeans. Like civil service, it is a job that is not opened to foreigners and PRs. Interestingly, you can also used our taxi services to benchmark the performance of Singapore without foreigners.

Each of the political party exist as a separate entity with their own agenda and vision, the word 'opposition' is simply a convenient label we used to differentiate those parties who do not form part of the government. There is nothing stopping WP and PAP to come together to form a joint...

Well, I think there is an unreal sense of expectation that our society has on what the 2 opposition MPs can or ought to be accountable for, or more to the point, what the rest of the country thought they were owed by them. There is also an unhealthy reliance on what they were (or were not...

Allowance and salary are apparently different in the spirit of things. Allowance like I mention is meant to be a compensation of expenses/time incurred in the course of duty. Also the local branch would normally take a cut, its not all going to him. Also I do not think MP is on pension scheme...

That 13k is allowance, not salary. It is to compensate their time/effort/expenses in parliamentary activities and constituency work, discourage corruption maybe, and the local party branch will normally take a cut of it to fund local branch activities, including PAP branches. Not everyone can...

The former MP for Jurong, Ho Kah Leong, has a Phd also though from a different place.

IT profession is just like any (Iam in one), you need alot of opportunities for exposure and experience. Indians dominanted IT because they like to hire their own. Indian managers, recruit agencies always hire their own from India. This practice started in US and now dominantes Spore also, which...

LTK never have a $300,000 salary, neither does he has a pension, not least a fat pension. "After all these years" the political knowledge of my countrymen is still amazing.

This report was done AFTER events of the credit crisis has unfolded. Naturally they are going to put US, UK and Iceland at the bottom. I am not impressed at all and instead am somewhat disgusted at such an unprofessional means of doing a study. Singapore is the first key Asian economies to go...