Excessive and Disguised Government Saving Has Harmed Singaporeans for Decades. It’s Long Past Time We Demanded and Got Transparency on the Reserves.
I have just seen an article by Manu Bhaskaran and Linda Lim (BL) from a couple of days ago. This article summarises many of the themes and ideas in my […]
In A Heartwarming Story Amid Covid-19 Low Income Singaporeans Donate Billions of $ To Allow an Elderly Woman To Pursue Her Social Media Hobby
Yesterday Temasek announced that its philanthropic arm, Temasek Foundation, would be providing “300,000 meals to around 2,750 people in need who have been affected by the Covid-19 pandemic.” Their statement […]
Don’t Allow Ho Ching’s and Josephine Teo’s Bleats of “Hindsight” Let PM Lee Off the Hook
As I have said frequently much of the credit for Singapore’s success story should not go to LKY and his son. Singapore was always one of the richest cities in […]
Heng Attempts To Have His Cake and Eat It Too
Today the Minister of Finance, Heng Swee Keat, rejected The Online Citizen (TOC)’s appeal against the Protection from Online Falsehood and Manipulation Act (POFMA) issued over its coverage of Taiwan […]
Singapore Fact Checking Website Refutes Ho Ching Salary Claim Without Giving Facts.
Some Singapore watchers might be forgiven for thinking that Heng Swee Keat is Ho Ching’s house elf. Somehow yesterday this civil servant got the Finance Minister and the Deputy Prime […]
Things That Make You Go “Err”: According to Taiwanese News Ho Ching Is Paying Herself a Cool US$100 Million a Year Out of Public Funds
Despite being an unelected public servant appointed as CEO of Temasek by her husband, with a track record that would have got her fired long ago at a private equity […]
Rather than Cyber Bully Ordinary Citizens, the Minister of Finance Needs To Be Transparent About Temasek, GIC, Our Reserves and the PM’s Wife’s Pay: An Open Letter to Heng Swee Keat
3 April 2020 Heng Swee KeatMinistry of Finance100 High Street#06-03 The TreasurySingapore 179434 Dear Swee Keat It has been many years since we were together studying Economics at Cambridge. I […]
What Foreign Pundits Really Mean When They Say Singapore Is “Small Government”
On Saturday Adrian Wooldridge, Political Editor of the Economist and author of the Bagehot column, made the following extraordinary comment about Singapore in a tweet: Singapore’s effectiveness in treating Covid-19, […]
UNfactually: How the Singapore Government Tries to Bully Citizens into Accepting Misleading Statistics and Fake News
With the election is supposedly just around the corner and the new Protection from Online Falsehood and Manipulation Act (POFMA) just having become law, the Prime Minister must have been […]
Ho Ching, please stop dissembling and tell us how much you earn as a Gov employee
Today Ho Ching posted a defence of her husband’s (PM Lee Hsien Loong) salary after an article appeared on a blog called Seedly (which appears to be selling loans, credit […]
When the Government and its Ministers and Wives Are in Business, Business Comes First Not Consumers
State-owned ( but actually Ho Ching-controlled) CNA reported yesterday on a new Bill (the Point-to-Point (P2P) Passenger Transport Industry Bill) tabled in Parliament to regulate the private car-hire industry. I […]
How Many More Years Will Go by Before We Learn How Much the Lees Have Paid Themselves While in Public Office?
I am pleased to see that Workers Party MP Png Eng Huat finally plucked up the courage and asked a question in Parliament about the remuneration of the top 3 […]
Should PM Lee Be Forced to Reimburse the Taxpayer for His Wife’s Earnings at Temasek?
The civil suit against the Workers Party MPs, Low Thia Kiang, Sylvia Lim and Pritam Singh and the shareholders of FMSS will wrap up in January and February next year […]
