The name of the statutory act that provides for minimum retirement age should be changed. Today it is called the “Retirement and Re-Employment Act”. The wordings of the title and the content of the Act are problematic, no...
Author - Benjamin Chiang
Firstly, landed property is the only true freehold. No condo is truly freehold, no matter what it says on PropertyGuru. The confused debate between free vs leasehold is muddled further because the picture on everyone’s mind is...
“Nearly half of existing university degrees could be obsolete within a decade”,said one Australian headline. “Your college degree is worthless”,read an American study. Across the world, students are concerned about the...
The pictures are surreal. Kim, the highly secretive leader, known only in photographs and rude memes, goes on a tour of Singapore as if he was just an ordinary tourist. A casual selfie was snapped by our Ministers and in this...
The answer to whether or not the High Speed Rail brings value to Singapore and/or Malaysia is animated in this question: Do both countries want a closer relationship with each other? More unity and progress would do both nations...
If you think this picture of Kim and Xi is surreal, here’s why: a.) This is probably the first in a long time a North Korean boss has a picture taken with another world leader b.) Kim doesn’t often pose for photographs. If...
First some facts, to scare you into sticking to a healthy regime: One in two Singaporeans aged above 65 is at risk of having a severe disability. Disability was responsible for 54% of the total burden of disease and injury in...
In the early days when Singapore was under new PAP management, the leadership was very, very concerned with how the city looked like. It is for this reason that the roads towards Changi Airport are lined with flowers and palms...
Although the employment market is set to improve next year, the MAS advised Singaporeans to remain prudent. This is because wages are unlikely to increase rapidly as existing slack in the market will take time to be absorbed. The...