COMPETENT CONSTRUCTIVE COMPASSIONATE
News:
Surely you jest, Mr Prime Minister
09 August 2001
In his National Day Message, Mr Goh Chok Tong told
Singaporeans: "Your worries are mine, too." How does the Prime Minister
expect to be taken seriously when he draws an annual salary of $2
million while the average Singaporean is either jobless or faces
imminent retrenchment? While he increased his own salary in 2000
by 14 percent, he cut the CPF of workers in 1999 by 10 percent and now
decides that it cannot be fully restored until an unspecified time in
the future. In his address he failed to tell Singaporeans that the
current recession is a direct conseq
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Chee to launch new book
30 July 2001
YD Protests Internet Ban
27 July 2001
The Young Democrats deplores the latest move by the Government to impose new rules for campaigning on the Internet (Straits Times, July 26, 2001).
This new legislation is yet another sorry attempt by the PAP to prevent the Opposition from effectively reaching out to voters during elections. With the local media in the hands of the ruling party and the continued restrictions on the foreign media, the Internet is the only other avenue for the Opposition to conduct its campaign activities.
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Foreign Talent, Local Torment
10 July 2001
There are many questions left unanswered about the
PAP's foreign talent policy. One is: Does it benefit the people or just
the PAP? In a regional survey conducted by Mastercard, almost 20
percent of Singaporeans, mainly young professionals, indicated that they
would like to leave Singapore and live somewhere else. Of these, an
overwhelming majority of 85 percent cited the high cost of living in the
republic as the main reason for them wanting to emigrate, while almost
80 percent also said the stressful lifestyle here was a major factor.
Another survey revealed th
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