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Heng Swee Keat’s explanation about manpower shortage in risk management and technology sectors does not fully explain the number of foreign PMETs being hired

Deputy Prime Minister and Member of Parliament for East Coast Group Representative…

Where are all the “better jobs for Singaporeans” that DPM Heng keeps talking about?

by Augustine Low Before GE2020, Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat promised…

No point for Transport Minister to simply praise bus drivers on social media without also taking action against employers for unfair pay and intimidation tactics

Newly minted Minister for Transport, Ong Ye Kung has taken to to…

Instead of reviewing policies periodically, has the use of foreigners become a short term and lazy way to plug the gaps? 

As the debate about the number of foreigners in Singapore continues to…

Is President Halimah Yacob only paying lip service to anti discrimination?

President Halimah Yacob has via a Facebook post said that discrimination against…

As we honour the passing of Ngiam Tong Dow, will the current crop of PAP leaders pay heed to his sage words of wisdom?

A civil servant who spent 40 years at the helm of Singapore’s…

Land of milk and honey for foreign talents, Third World backwater for migrant workers

COVID-19 has laid bare the country’s worst-kept secret – foreigners have taken…

Called racist and xenophobic for anti-foreign sentiments, branded disloyal for pro-foreign sentiments

Instead of addressing the issue at hand and the cause of the…

Before berating people for taking to social media to complain about societal ills, has Ho Ching thought about how difficult it might be for mere mortals to raise issues?

It is no secret that wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong,…

Do army generals who never had to compete with foreigners for a job know the worries and anxieties of Singaporean workers?

When pressed for clarity on employment statistics earlier this year by Workers’…