Month: November 2008

166 posts

Letter to TOC: Keeping our rice bowl

Kent Tan illustrates how companies can help workers keep their jobs.

Minority PM: Time for the leadership to take the lead

“A Prime Minister must be assessed by his ability, regardless of his race,” says Mohd Haireez.

NS – a humbling experience

“I do not know whether I consider myself fortunate or unfortunate to have mixed with a bunch of people whom I have never known intimately before and never would have until NS brought us together. I came from a top Junior College and never had this opportunity to interact and talk to this group of people. I merely knew that they existed and I probably would not have cared much about their lives.” By Alison Liew.

TOC Weekend Reads

Some interesting stories for the weekend.

So, who’s gonna get retrenched – first?

If we just send away the foreign workers now, it will do…

PM Lee on minority-race PM and foreign workers and retrenchments

“If we just send away the foreign workers now, it will do us harm,” says PM Lee.

Billion dollar profits but still axing jobs

Should companies axe employees the moment dark clouds appear? By Gerald Giam.

Letter to TOC: Minibonds investors given runaround

They did not buy from banks but from brokerages.

Letter to TOC: I believe, yes, we can

Can what Obama did happen in S’pore? By Kyle Sim.

SM Goh urges Singaporeans to “keep the economy going”

“You should continue to spend on life’s little pleasures” if you can, says SM.