Friday Focus: 2024 — The Search For Safe Ports Of Call
AFTER successive rocky years, 2023 is also going to limp out battered, bruised and further wartorn.
What’s 2024 got to offer?
Ships in a storm will strive to seek safe harbour...
Hot-potato Issues – HDB, CPF, Salaries
THREE issues have gained prominence in Singapore’s social media landscape in recent weeks, and the conversations about them don’t seem to be going away anytime soon.
These issues relate to...
Sharing In The Sharing Economy
THE CHANGES taking place in the automotive industry are manifold and impact different markets distinctly.
In most markets, taxation imposes a heavy burden on the sticker price of cars. While...
Battling It Out On Social Media
COMPLAINING — Singapore’s favourite pastime.
Train delay — complain to SMRT. Unhappy at work — complain about the boss. Lunch not up to scratch — complain to coffee shop uncle....
Are We Being Less Neighbourly?
MUCH FUSS has been made of a recent meeting between Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad and four Singapore activists, historian Dr Thum Ping Tjin, civil rights activist Jolovan...
Keep The Money Flowing
IT SEEMS that they are following the modern economic crisis playbook, where the focus is on ensuring that liquidity is maintained and money keeps flowing through the economy.
The measures...
What Do Millennial Employees Want?
ACCORDING to The Department of Statistics Singapore, the 700,000 or so working Millennials make up about 30% of Singapore’s resident workforce.
In keeping with the established practice of inter-generation bickering, the Millennials have been...
Think Before Tossing Your E-Waste
EVERY year, Singapore generates 60 million kilograms of e-waste. That's like every single person in Singapore throwing away eight MacBook Airs a year.As rapidly advancing technology increases the pace...
Doctors, Aren’t Patients Clients…2?
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About a month after my last visit, and the feedback I’d given the eye specialist, I went back for a follow up.
The appointment was for 9.15am; the second appointment...
Infrastructure Is Key In Going Electric
THE RECENTLY released Land Transport Master Plan 2040 gives a sense of government priorities and focus in terms of improving the land transport system in Singapore.
With zero car growth...