S'pore's defence spending will amount to US$11.4bn or 6% of GDP in 2009, one of the biggest defence budgets in recent history.

Students are well-educated, employable, with a sense of social responsibility, and their principals and teachers are proud of what they are doing. This system is helping to produce a competent, creative people, who are literate and well-socialised. It is also grooming leaders of tomorrow. Straits Times, on what PM Lee said about S’pore’s education system

Manpower stats on unemployed and jobs are unclear. Leong Sze Hian.

Letter to minister questions why, during this period of hardship for many S'poreans, the ministry is still allowing more foreign labour. De Souza Jose Socrates.

THE leadership of the Association of Women for Action and Research (Aware) has no plan to initiate legal or any other action to recover expenses incurred by the previous executive committee during its short term in office. Straits Times