I applaud President Halimah Yacob's call to retain women in the workforce, with a focus on flexible work practices and implementation of family care leave (
Minister for Manpower Tan See Leng assured Singaporeans that employers must practise fair consideration in their selection of candidates, and that the Ministry of Manpower will act against employers found to be discriminatory (
I am not fully convinced by Manpower Minister Tan See Leng's assurances that the new Overseas Networks and Expertise (One) Pass is good for Singaporeans (
I refer to Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong's speech mentioning American philanthropists Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller and Bill Gates, and saying that Singapore does not yet have that "same long and strong tradition of philanthropic giving" (
In the latest property cooling measures, private home owners will now have to wait 15 months after selling their homes before they are allowed to buy a resale flat, a temporary measure to moderate demand for resale flats (