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Employers Still Discriminating Against Older Workers
This article was first posted here on 30 Mar 2009. Written by Gilbert Goh Having met more than a dozen unemployed Singaporeans either through my unemployment support site transitioning.org or my own personal contacts, I observed [...]
Transparency Ranking Of Temasek Holdings and GIC (www.swfinstitute.org)
Linaburg-Maduell Transparency Index The Linaburg-Maduell Transparency Index was developed at the Sovereign Wealth Fund Institute by Carl Linaburg and Michael Maduell. The Linaburg-Maduell transparency index is a method of rating transparency in [...]
Uplifting the working poor (ST 16 Apr)
Helping low-wage workers help themselves through training are (from left) the WDA's Jennifer Tan, CPF Board's Maple Chang, and MOM's Jane Lim and Hoe Yeen Teck. -- ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE TWO years ago, an experiment to turn the despair of low-wage [...]
50 reasons why Singapore is the greatest city in the world Part 1 (cnngo.com)
Editor's Note: Catherine Ling, Michelle Bong, Alisa Chopard, Christa Yeo, Hatta Aziz, Yuen Yi Ying and Larry Loh, CNNGo Singapore City Editor all contributed to this report. 1. Singapore = Food. The city-state dominates the 'net with food [...]
DBS CEO, who joined in Nov, earned $3 mil in two months (Reuters)
SINGAPORE, April 10 (Reuters) - The new chief executive of Singapore's DBS (DBSM.SI), who joined in November last year, received S$4.2 million ($3.02 million) in his first two months in the job as his pay package was boosted by bonus [...]
Teen makes online bomb threat on school & police station (Sgforums 25 Mar)
A STOMPer was shocked when he came across a social-networking account of a Singaporean youth, who bragged about stealing and committing arson and even threatened to 'bomb' a secondary school and a police station. In a separate STOMP report, [...]
Singapore is the 2nd most crowded country in the world: Reuters
S'pore is the 2nd most crowded country in the world - Reuters Reuters Singapore has the world's second highest population density with 18,189 people per square mile. Link
Famous Quotes of MM Lee Kuan Yew (http://leewatch.info/quotes/)
On DEMOCRACY “But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed… [...]
Top 10 highest taxes in the world (moneycentral.msn.com 10 Mar)
http://articles.moneycentral.msn.com..._blg=1,1692807 By David Seaman, MainStreet The U.S. doesn’t have it so bad tax-wise compared to other nations, despite what Glenn Beck would have you believe. Here‘s a rundown of average income tax [...]
Singapore’s 40 Richest (Forbes)
Special Report Singapore's 40 Richest Suzanne Nam, 09 Sep 09, 11:00 PM ET Singapore is emerging from its deepest recession since the island became an independent nation in 1965. Though the economy may shrink up to 6% this year, [...]
Do You Earn More Than $52,350 – The Median Annual Income? (salary.sg)
Do You Earn More Than $52,350 The Median Annual Income? March 10th, 2010 $52,350 is the median income of all resident taxpayers for YA2008, which I calculated based on the numbers in IRAS annual reports. You can use this income comparison [...]
Jack Neo Will Tell All (Sg Truth)
Jack Neo will tell all DISGRACED filmmaker Jack Neo will tell all about his two-year affair with a freelance model after the dust has settled, said his manager Tang Wing Fai. Chinese daily Lianhe Zaobao on Monday reported that Tang had discussed [...]
200 Gangsters Assaulted 4 Plain Clothed Policemen at Geylang (Delphi Forum)
Our city is getting worse: 200 gangsters recently assaulted four plain cloth policemen at Geylang! 4名便衣警探深夜扫荡芽笼后巷赌档，竟被200名公众包围，还被丢掷玻璃瓶和石头，警探被逼举枪 [...]
Two Singaporean Men Committed Suicide on 3 March Due to Financial Distress (Temasek Review)
March 4, 2010 by admin Filed under Headlines Leave a comment Written by Our Correspondent According to Shin Min Daily yesterday, two Singapore men committed suicide on the same day by jumping off their flats. The first suicide [...]
Bankers blow billions faster than gamblers (smh.com.au 4 Mar)
Bankers blow billions faster than gamblers WILLIAM PESEK March 4, 2010 The big buzz in Singapore is about the casinos beginning to dot the city-state. Singapore prefers to call them "integrated resorts." Gambling is what it is, [...]
