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...

Cyber Bullies — Bits and Bytes Pack A Bite

A SECONDARY school girl was bullied on Twitter for being overweight and made fun of for quoting the Bible — called names and accused of “acting holy”. This harassment started...

Get To The Root Cause Of Income Inequality

THE SUCCESSFUL recent private fund-raising campaign by Workers’ Party leaders Low Thia Kiang, Pritam Singh and Sylvia Lim was a positive sign for opposition politics in Singapore. It only took them three...

Start-Up Fever

THE FUTURE is uncertain. But we still have to eat. Two companies related to the food and beverage business have taken on the incumbents to develop business models that they hope...
Resilience Budget,

What About The Hardworking Foreigners?

THE supplementary budget of $48 billion is indeed a very generous one compared to the main budget delivered on 18 February. In addition to the enhanced measures, a new measure in...

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...