The law prevents dismissals on grounds of age any employee who is below 62. However, I get that the sense that many Singaporeans find that piece of law irrelevant to them. If they are in a job, they can be dismissed on a very...
The stress is imaginary, the worry is unnecessary and the criticism is directed at the wrong points. The social contract had done its work and I argue it continues to work. The citizen’s fear is that by the time 70 years has...
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...
It was reported today that Temasek’s total holdings today amount to some $308b. It is a healthy number. Well actually to an investor, any number that is bigger than the previous year is a healthy number. Rule number one:...
At first, I was all “wait and see”. Mahathir showed all the signs of a leader who could turn things around. I thought the axing of consumption tax was a good move. Show the electorate that you will fulfil promises but keep...
There’re about one million work-permit holders in Singapore and they are mostly construction workers and domestic helpers. They make-up one-fourth of our labour workforce. Construction workers can earn as little as $800 but...
Malaysia’s newly minted Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng was reported to have handed out some morale boosting talk to a group of Malaysian entrepreneurs, the quote of which made headlines in Singapore. “…why must we lose to...
“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...
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong (PM Lee) was recently interviewed by Christiane Amanpour for CNN on why the US is running an overall trade imbalance, and Singapore’s position when two trade giants have difficulties with each...
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...