Terry Xu By: Kumaran Pillai, Terry Xu & Leo Khaw – Chen (not her real name) paid S$3600 of her savings to an agent in promise of more money, better life and to escape from the communist regime of China. But now, she has found herself only the short end of the stick. She works for a … Read more
Dr Yuen Chung Kwong Singapore Press Holdings and Mediacorp are the two major news organizations in Singapore. Mediacorp is a government owned corporation, while SPH is a listed company whose share holdings are widely distributed (a legal requirement forbidding any single shareholding being above a specified limit), but with a special provision for the government to appoint … Read more
By: Atticus The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) has denied any link between the politically charged academic publications of NUS Law Faculty’s Associate Professor Tey Tsun Hang and the prosecution against him for corruption for allegedly sleeping with law student Darinne Ko in return for improving her grades. In response to media queries, the AGC said in … Read more
Gordon Lee On 16 July, LTA announced a record $2 million fine for SMRT, or 1.4% of SMRT’s forecast profit.[1] These figures were splashed over the national newspapers, presumably intending to create a “shock and awe” effect, and to produce the impression that the LTA takes a tough stance on service disruptions. Is the … Read more
~ by Lewis Loh ~ After watching the news on TV about the NParks’s Brompton bicycles purchase, I had more serious questions about this particular company that won the tender as well as the tender itself. Disclaimer – I am not questioning the model selection as I know the quality of a Brompton bicycles. Besides the tender … Read more
By Choo Zheng Xi / Consultant Editor The Attorney-General’s Chambers (AGC) has issued a statement addressing some of the questions I raised in my earlier article this morning. I appreciate the fact the AGC response came on a Sunday morning and that time and effort was put into answering some of the concerns members … Read more
By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the Energy Market Authority’s (EMA) reply “Tariff changes mainly due to fuel price changes” (Today, May 17) to my letter “Tariff not falling in tandem with decrease in fuel price” (Today, May 17). It states that “when fuel prices increased by 8 per cent from January to July … Read more
~ By: Kumaran Pillai ~ Ireland’s former state telecom operator eircom applied for court protection to allow it to restructure its 3.75 billion euro (US$5 billion) debt mountain. A move eircoms officials said was “necessary and unavoidable” (here). The proposal allows the lenders to take control from the major shareholder Singapore Technologies Telemedia (STT), a … Read more
A reader sent us some information about the tuition fees of foreign students in the universities. Foreign students’ fees: TBC? When I opened the reader’s first document, I was struck by the increase in tuition fees for this year at a local university for Singaporean and permanent resident (PR) graduate students, that for foreign students … Read more
By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “Foreign scholars closely tracked” (ST, Feb 18). Sometimes, replies in Parliament may give you the edgy feeling that the statistics cited may not be telling you the whole story One such instance I think, was the recent reply on foreign scholars. “At least” means how many … Read more