by Vincent Low In the advance release of the Labour Market Report for 2017 by MOM yesterday (26 Jan), it shows that unemployment rates for 2017 has gone up compared to those in 2016. Followings are the key findings: Overall unemployment rate rose from 2.1% in 2016 to 2.2% in 2017 Resident (i.e, including PRs) unemployment rate rose from 3.0% …
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Understanding the budget
by Chris Kuan Not an Instagram influenza, am too old for it. Here is my bit to explain the various levels of the budget as requested by a number of you. The starting level is the total amount of revenues and the total amount of expenditures. The former are the taxes, charges and duties. The latter consist of the Operating …
Read More »Could Malaysians in Singapore hold the trump card to the Malaysian 14th GE
by Tan Wah Piow Could Malaysians in Singapore wield the crucial votes to bring about systemic change of Malaysia? This is a possibility if the analysis of one political scientist were correct. The Malaysian General Elections GE14 is due to be called anytime from now, but no later than 24th August. Goodies such as cooking oil with the ruling coalition …
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