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2.8K1Insurance Industry Veteran Blasts “Messy” MediShield Scheme, Says Gan Not Fit to be Health Minister
Former NTUC Income CEO Tan Kin Lian has condemned the way the MediShield national health insurance is structured and says that changes...
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4.9K1MINDEF’s Sorting of NS Recruits Based on Educational Qualifications Widens the Social Divide
RONALD LEE: National Service fosters integration among all ethnic groups in our multiracial society. It is the one melting pot where boys...
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1.5KPower of the Internet Drives the Government to Withdraw MPs’ Parking Privileges and Review SEHCs
RONALD LEE: When Singaporeans band together in a common chorus of “nabeh lah” and other curses, we can effect change. Just look...
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2.7KTransgender Woman Who Served National Service Saved Lives but was “Mercilessly Abused”
This story was written by Pengpeng Zheng, a research Assistant at the University of Texas at Dallas, who served her National Service...
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3.2KMedian Income Up by 4.8 Percent, but Cost of Public Services Hiked by Up To 30 Percent?
ELSON: Is the government bent on making sure that taxes and the cost of public services keep up with or even outstrip...
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2.2K“Little Police Scholar”: Reform Party Chief Kenneth Jeyaretnam Shares His First Encounter with Heng Swee Keat
KENNETH JEYARETNAM: When I was studying economics at Cambridge in 1980 I remember one occasion when I invited a group of Singaporeans...
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4.2K1Signs Point to Chan Becoming Next Prime Minister with Shan and Heng Serving as Deputies
RONALD LEE: The PAP’s CEC election on Sunday has shed more light on Singapore’s next generation of leaders from the PAP. I’m...
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2.3KHas Lee Hsien Yang Been “Bullied” into Rebellion by Big Brother?
RONALD LEE: Lee Hsien Yang caused one hell of a stir when he went for teochew porridge with former PAP politician turned...
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2.7KSports Hub and SEHCs: The Shameful Flops of Vivian Balakrishnan’s Public-Private Partnership Forays
ELSON: So much time and money given, yet so little results to show for it – that’s the best I can say...
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1.8K1Bringing Back the Hawker Centre Culture: The Government Must Stop Prioritising Profit Over People
ELSON: “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Clearly the government didn’t get the hint when it came to hawker centres. Either...
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4.3KTray Return Initiative: Has the Public Been Played for Fools In the Name of Greed?
ELSON: It never sounded right, right from the start. I’m talking about the tray return initiative. First off, why would the government...
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5.9KThe Struggle of the Opposition: Fending Off AIM and the PA, to the HDB and EMSU
RONALD LEE: We’ve a long AHTC trial to go, where Mr Low, Pritam and co can explain their good faith defence in...
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3.0KNot So Benevolent: NTUC’s S$1.50 Meals Only for Exclusive Group of People
ELSON: NTUC has tried to frame its acquisition of Kopitiam as a benevolent move that will give the public affordable meals that...
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2.8KWhy has an Independent Probe Not Been Launched into Ang Mo Kio Town Council?
RONALD LEE: An independent probe was launched into AHPETC/AHTC over bad corporate governance, and today we have town councillors from the Workers’...