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As mentioned, this case will be the acid test of the current administration. Those who really do something wrong, like using fake degrees, assaulting people psychically and verbally, sometimes even killing innocent people can be forgiven and slapped on the wrist, but for a young local boy or some other locals who dare to challenge the administration are led out in chains, painted like they are demons, it only shows how “small” the people on top are.

Election time coming again. this is the list of CHANGE that Singapore need. As a fellow Singaporean, do you agree?

Donald Low, the associate dean for research and executive education at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy wrote an article which was published on the Straits Times on Monday (‘Rethink house price policies’, 17 Nov). In the article, he criticised the government for its misguided home ownership policy of fusing the goal of home ownership with that of asset appreciation.

I retired last year at age 59 and, having turned 60 this year, decided to get back into the workforce. I tried applying for positions in various ministries and government agencies. There was usually no reply, except for a handful of rejections, even for positions such as administrative assistant. I have more than 30 years of experience working in a multinational company in the oil industry and have done some lecturing at a polytechnic recently.

I am a Singaporean Malay business owner and was looking through the Government website to find out more about grants that maybe can help my company. To my horrow, I see some grants which come under SPRING Singapore that maybe apply to my business that was explained in Chinese. I thought English is the business language in Singapore? Why are these grants being uploaded online in chinese? Is this even legal?

Groupthink occurs when groups are highly cohesive and when they are under considerable pressure to make a quality decision. Members are less motivated to realistically appraise the alternative courses of action available to them. These group pressures lead to carelessness and irrational thinking since groups experiencing groupthink fail to consider all alternatives and seek to maintain unanimity. Decisions shaped by groupthink have low probability of achieving successful outcomes. Thus, Singapore will sink further with the incumbent in power unless a radical change happens within PAP itself.

I am a member of the 2011 60.1% majority voting for our world class PAP government. Once in a while, I dropped by TRE to size up the other side. While I found TRE to be highly hilarious and entertaining in the past, recently, I found the voices to be troubling, protectionist and bordering on xenophobic.

Mrs Cindy Keng, Director of Corporate Communications Division, MTI and Ms Chong Wan Yieng, Director of Corporate Communications Department, MOM, wrote a joint letter to ST today (16 Aug), debunking an ST article from Dr Tan Kong Yam (“Growth in a decade of shocks”, 12 Aug). The 2 spokeswomen said, “We have embarked on major restructuring of our economy in recent years. This has included the tightening of foreign worker policies, promoting productivity and ensuring a sustainable social balance.” However, they denied that the inflow of foreign workers had suppressed local wages before 2008.

Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong on Saturday (Aug 16) raised concerns about the relationship between the people and the government. Speaking a day ahead of the Prime Minister's National Day Rally, Mr Goh stressed that good bonding between both sides is a critical factor for a country's success. But he is also worried this bond "is being loosened" in Singapore.

For male citizens above 16.5 years of age who have not enlisted for NS, their parents need to furnish a bond in the form of a banker’s guarantee of $75,000, or 50 per cent of the combined annual gross income of both parents for the preceding year, if their son remains overseas for a period. If that is the case, shouldn’t the Government impose similar measures for the parents of male PRs as well? As a matter of fairness and for our country’s security, the Government must review the existing policies to make the parents of male PRs liable if their sons do not fulfil their NS obligations.