Will the Taxpayer End Up Subsidizing Ho Ching’s Bonus?
In Budget 2015 the Finance Minister allocated $3 billion towards the construction of the new Terminal 5 at Changi Airport. He stated that he would be setting up a new […]
Weak Exports Confirm We Were Right to Call for A Stimulus Package Last Year
The latest figures for non-oil domestic exports were extremely weak and signal that GDP growth is likely to be weaker than the MAS’s projection for this year of 2-4%. They […]
Amendments to bill will allow HDB to enter flat by force and without a warrant.
I am seriously concerned by the new Housing and Development (Amendment) Bill, which was read in Parliament for the first time on 12 March 2015. As Parliament is dominated by […]
Reform Party’s Wishlist for Budget 2015
The Budget Statement is only a few hours away. The Government-controlled and-owned media is full of speculation about the “goodies” that Singaporeans can look forward to. The Straits Times estimates […]
The Problem with Husbands and Wives in the WP, in the Ruling Family, in Our Reserves
Over the last few days PAP Ministers and MPs have lined up in Parliament to attack the WP for its lack of transparency and accountability in running AHPETC. As I […]
On Roy, JBJ, Fines and Defamation
Why is the Central Provident Fund Minimum Sum being raised and why can’t we take out money out when we like after 55? Why GIC and Temasek make money (if that is what they are doing) from using our captive savings and paying us a non-market interest rate? Roy has done us all a favour. He got so close to showing us how to demand accountability and stand up for our rights.
The PAP Sausage Making Machine, Foreign Professors and Our Inferiority Complex
A warning I have been warning for the past five years about the effect of an open-door foreign worker policy in depressing the wages of native Singaporean workers and in […]
Ageing Populations, Japan’s Recession and Our CPF Savings.
Someone made a comment a couple of days ago on my public Facebook profile Kenneth Jeyaretnam TeamRP: Kenneth, just checking your opinion on this. Japan’s economy is doing badly, and […]
Ho Kwon Ping’s Self-Serving Proposals Have No Merit.
Yesterday I wrote about why the general Singaporean public paying for foreign workers’ medical care was a bad idea. If companies are allowed to get away without providing adequate medical coverage for their […]
The Ricebowl Singapore (TRS) 