by Nabilah Mohammad | Jul 25, 2017 | Commentary
By Nabilah Mohammad Poverty: is it really all about the money? After witnessing decades of spectacular economic growth in Singapore, poverty was thought to have disappeared by the 1990s. However, in the recent years, growing inequality and stagnation of wages of...
by Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim | Apr 26, 2017 | Commentary
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim The Budget 2017 statement delivered by Minister for Finance, Mr Heng Swee Keat, on 20 February 2017, came shortly after the Committee on the Future Economy (CFE) made its recommendations on the policies that the government could pursue to...
by Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim | Apr 26, 2017 | Commentary
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim In its report to the Prime Minister on 7 February 2017, the Committee on the Future Economy (CFE) noted that Singapore is making “good progress” by nurturing highly-skilled people and an innovative economy for a “distinctive global city”....
by rimaadmin | Apr 26, 2017 | Commentary
By Dr Nuraliah Norasid The early decades of the 21st century will be distinctly marked by inter- and intra-religious conflicts that almost invariably see at their centres Muslims and the Islamic faith they profess. The world is becoming increasingly diverse as the...
by Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim | Jan 22, 2017 | Commentary
By Abdul Shariff Aboo Kassim News of Mr Heng Swee Keat’s collapse during a cabinet meeting on May 12, 2016, was greeted with anxiety by Singaporeans. The reason for the heightened consternation lies in the fact that Mr Heng, who is currently Singapore’s finance...
by Dr Nuraliah Norasid | Jan 22, 2017 | Commentary
By Dr Nuraliah Norasid The edict set in the cement blocks of our consumer-oriented society is, “whither there be demand, thither shalt be supply” and when that demand is a grade on a sheet, actual learning is gradually overtaken by the odious ‘how-to’s of acing an...
