Opinion

by Teo Soh Lung Two days ago, I had an interesting conversation with a taxi driver. I had asked that he take a route through Nicoll Highway. He told me that he wasn’t sure if the road was open because of the national day rehearsals. I was lucky and we drove through the highway. We then talked about celebrating the …

The importance of “engaging meaningfully” with and upholding social cohesion among members of a diverse Singapore society were the key messages conveyed by the President of Singapore Halimah Yacob throughout a three-day conference, which began on Wed (19 Jun). Speaking to reporters on the second day of the inaugural International Conference on Cohesive Societies yesterday (20 Jun), she said that …

by Brad Bowyer I feel all political systems are a balance between Socialist and Capitalist ideals on the one axis and Democratic and Autocratic management methods on the other. For example, Communism is an extreme autocratic socialist model and most Western systems sit somewhere on the democratic side of the graph swinging between more socialist or capitalist ideals depending variously …

Come 2020, the old Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system will be replaced with a new one that will charge motorists based on the distance they travel on congested road, instead of the flat-fee that they currently pay. This can be done as motorists will be charged using an advanced satellite system with this new ERP system. The Land Transport Authority …

The Government will soon be introducing a series of dialogues to help find solutions for young parents to strike a balance between work and life. This is additional to other measures introduced previously like paternity leave in 2013 which allowed fathers to spend more time with their kids, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat. DPM Heng made this announcement …

  In a video posted on Friday (15 Jun), Nas Daily commended Singapore for its lack of segregation by virtue of its HDB housing. In the video, Nas shared that he grew up not having a balanced view on diversity due to segregation in his country (Israel). He noted that segregation is a problem in every country. Case in point, looking at …

While speaking at the Building our Future of Singapore Together dialogue at the Singapore Management University School of Law on Saturday (15 June), Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat said that the Goods and Service Tax (GST) would have been increased to at least 15 per cent if it weren’t for Singapore’s healthy reserves built up over the years. Earlier …

by Simon Lim I express my opinions as a Singapore citizen. I have served my full-time National Service almost 40 years ago and yesterday when I chanced upon the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) pledge on-line again, it drawn on me a very different meaning and feeling, one that I have not given serious thought to over the decades. Let me …

Based on a labour market report released by the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Thursday (13 June), close to 70 per cent of residents who were retrenched in the first three month of the year came from the professionals, managers, executives and technicians (PMETs) group. If that is not bad enough, the situation is bound to worsen for them as …

by Khush Chopra “Society needs a moving escalator where everyone is moving up, and policymakers must bear this in mind in the basic design of economic and social policies, said Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam in London yesterday. Speaking at British think-tank Institute for Government’s 10th anniversary conference, he stressed the need to be concerned about inequality and social mobility, with …