Spoons speak of political Islam
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The photo above is of a cutlery tray at an ordinary food court. Those of us
familiar with Singapore’s food courts will be able to read significance
into th...
Singlish, Once Again…
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Here’s a post which appeared as an opinion piece on the Catholic News. It
was, however, so full of bombast that I had to reply to what seemed an
article wh...
Minimum Wage: Another Perspective
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For several months now, there is a debate on the issue of minimum wage on
the local blogosphere. While many advanced economies has minimum wage as a
bedroc...
Migrants workers that come here are not getting the benefits. Local workers that are here are not getting the benefits. Somebody must be rite? If we have some labour contractors, a.k.a human traffickers, that is getting very rich doing something totally illegal and more importantly inhumane, why are the authorities not doing anything about it? I may be wrong but there is one possible explanation: the authorities are somehow also profiting from the misery of such human misery. Then I remembered that our politicians' page is tied to GDP.....hmm....
Migrants workers that come here are not getting the benefits. Local workers that are here are not getting the benefits. Somebody must be rite? If we have some labour contractors, a.k.a human traffickers, that is getting very rich doing something totally illegal and more importantly inhumane, why are the authorities not doing anything about it? I may be wrong but there is one possible explanation: the authorities are somehow also profiting from the misery of such human misery. Then I remembered that our politicians' page is tied to GDP.....hmm....