by Benjamin Chiang | Dec 6, 2018 | Observations
“I inherited a world that did not make me feel very safe, did not make me feel fully empowered as a female, did not make me feel that i have a voice,” said Debra Teng, actress and also the producer of “Under The Carpet: #metoo ”. We all understand that sexual...
by Tay Leong Tan | Oct 11, 2018 | Observations, Singapore Today
Not everything that has words such as “Ox” or “Bridge” or “Institute” or has statistics and printed in a book is correct, intelligent or even logical. The Oxfam report says we are not doing “enough” to fix inequality. By their standards, we ought to be doing two...
by Benjamin Chiang | Sep 24, 2018 | Observations
The name of the statutory act that provides for minimum retirement age should be changed. Today it is called the “Retirement and Re-Employment Act”. The wordings of the title and the content of the Act are problematic, no thanks to semantics. The word retirement, to a...
by Tay Leong Tan | Sep 11, 2018 | Observations
More restrictions, laws and enforcement will be enacted against mobility devices and shared bikes. Their usefulness has become so narrow. And do you know why this is so? Singaporeans are just too immature to handle them. We have been reckless with technology that...
by Tay Leong Tan | Aug 30, 2018 | Observations
The stress is imaginary, the worry is unnecessary and the criticism is directed at the wrong points. The social contract had done its work and I argue it continues to work. The citizen’s fear is that by the time 70 years has lapsed, the estate would be taken from them...
by Benjamin Chiang | Aug 23, 2018 | Observations
Firstly, landed property is the only true freehold. No condo is truly freehold, no matter what it says on PropertyGuru. The confused debate between free vs leasehold is muddled further because the picture on everyone’s mind is a multi-storey building. Condos and...
