Saturday, 28 March 2015

Lee Kuan Yew donated $10 milion towards a bilingual fund

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Do you know that Mr Lee Kuan Yew personally donated $10 million towards a bilingual fund called Lee Kuan Yew Fund for Bilingualism which h...
Saturday, 21 March 2015

Love does indeed spring eternal

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By Dr Lee Wei Ling   My friend Balaji Sadasivan passed away on Sept 27 last year. In the obituaries section of The Straits Times last Tues...

Funding Mosque Building in Singapore: A Legacy of Mr Lee Kuan Yew

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By Mohammad Alami Musa SYNOPSIS Mr Lee Kuan Yew’s simple but profound idea to set up a Mosque Building Fund not only enabled the Muslim co...
Friday, 30 January 2015

Singapore has accumulated large reserves but are we rich?

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The Singapore Government has accumulated vast reserves and Singaporeans think we are rich and some politicians have called for spending so...
Monday, 5 January 2015

NIMBY: a sign that we have become a selfish nation?

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The Nimby (not in my backyard) syndrome is used in a pejorative way to describe residents' opposition to proposals of developments close...
Sunday, 28 December 2014

Singapore's demographic challenge (with reference to Japan)

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As it is, Singapore's total fertility rate stands at 1.19. What's the big deal, you say. We are already so crowded! We don't n...
Saturday, 20 December 2014

Poverty cannot be legislated away with a minimum wage

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Some people have continued their call for a minimum wage. Minimum wage purports to lift people out of poverty. But does it?   If minimum ...