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, […]
Budget 2020: Despite Biggest Threat to the Singapore Economy Since 2008 It’s Deja Vu as Heng and His Master Play Their Old Tricks of Hiding The Money
Every year the Finance Minister produces the same fake Budget in a process that at various points over the years I have been writing my blog I have characterised as […]
Another Blow to PAP’s Attempts to Game the System as Trump Lets Loose a Broadside Against the WTO
Yesterday Trump tweeted: While the main aim of his broadside is China the list of other countries which are classified as developing includes Singapore, the United Arab Emirates and some […]
The Myth of the Lee Family’s Public Service
Last week I published a blog post, “How Many More Years Will Go by Before We Learn How Much the Lees Have Paid Themselves While in Public Office?”https://sonofadud.wordpress.com/2019/05/20/how-many-more-years-will-go-by-before-we-learn-how-much-the-lees-have-paid-themselves-while-in-public-office/. I said there […]
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 […]
While Norway insists on transparency, our Familee-managed SWFs prefer the fishing in muddy waters
Yesterday the Financial Times reported that Norway’s Finance Ministry had forbidden its sovereign wealth fund (SWF) from investing in private equity. In the article the Norwegian Finance Minister said that “Private […]
CCS only took an interest in the Uber-Grab merger after I said that it should be stopped
On March 28 Uber announced it had sold its operations in South-East Asia to rival Grab in return for a 27% stake in Grab. This has been followed by an […]
Dear White (Racist UK Leave) People. Everything you think you know about Singapore is wrong.
On Sunday morning in the UK on a weekly BBC TV show about politics a British Conservative politician came out with an astounding figure for Singapore’s trade. He was intending […]
BG Chan’s Words Not Only Insulted The Intelligence of Singaporeans But Were Deeply Worrying
Yesterday I wrote about how Chan Chun Sing had patronised Singaporeans by giving them the benefit of his Cambridge Economics education by explaining that if you spent a dollar from […]
The Ricebowl Singapore (TRS) 