THE TEMASEK REVIEW

一些庞大的政府部门，今后可能需要超过一名全职部长来管理。 　　李显龙总理昨天在总统府会见媒体，谈论内阁最新一轮改组时表示，随着经济体变大，人口增加，国民要求提高，加上制度变得复杂，不管是国家发展部，国防部，教育部或贸工部，部长的职责都比过去繁重。 　　他可以确定的说，像贸工部，外交部，教育部和国防部，肯定需要多名政务部长或政务次长来协助部长的工作。“我得说当中几个较庞大的部门，其实需要超过一名全职部长。不过那是我们今后必须考虑的问题。” 　　总理也指出，尽管政府的工作比过去庞大和沉重，但政府部门照旧维持在15个，包括总理公署... 

EDITORS’ NOTE:  The writer is currently a General Practitioner in private practice. He wishes to remain anonymous. I refer to the report on 30 March 2009 – “1,000 foreign-trained docs still not enough” (read article here). Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan revealed that the public healthcare sector... 

Dear readers, It has come to our attention that a troll(s)  has been impersonating us with the monikers ‘wayangparty’, ‘wayangparty admin’, ‘wayangparty club’, ‘wayang club’ etc on posts in various internet forums and blogs They follow the same modus operandi: somebody will... 

Dear readers, It has come to our attention that an internet troll has been monitoring our site and spamming it with repeated comments every one minute: Troll In the span of 20 minutes, he or she posted 22 comments using different nicks from the same IP address. We welcome genuine criticisms from our readers, but we will... 

Why can’t every minister talk like Gen George Yeo – if they did, they wouldn’t cause us all pain all the time. please take a good 20 min to understand what I mean – Darkness 2009 The Great Repricing  Madam Pro-Vice Chancellor, Kate Pretty, my old tutor, Professor Navaratnam, dear friends,... 

As an outspoken human rights lawyer and ferocious opposition politician, Karpal Singh, 68, constantly courts danger, controversies and has been arrested frequently in a career spanning nearly four decades. His exploits have earned him the nickname “Lion of Jelutong”, after the northern constituency that first... 

By Eugene Yeo It is an occasion of double joy for SPH today. A new corporate logo was unveiled in conjunction with its 25th anniversary celebrations. I can’t help wondering how much the re-design of the same name cost the shareholders which brought up to mind the $400,000 of taxpayers’ monies spent by Mah Bow... 

Prologue: During his ministerial community visit to the Paya Lebar Division of the Aljunied GRC, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan revealed that MOH is further relaxing the use of Medisave, this time to allow Singaporeans to cover non-urgent hospitalisation in approved hospitals overseas. In a subsequent dialogue session with... 

By Dr James Gomez, Author, Self-Censorship: Singapore’s Shame EDITORS’ NOTE: (Self-Censorship: Singapore`s Shame written by Dr. James Gomez ten years ago  focuses on the political behavior of citizens and foreigners living and working in Singapore. He is currently revising his book to consider the impact... 

During the Parliamentary sittings on 9 and 10 February 2009, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan caused a storm when he allegedly said that Singaporeans should consider sending their elderly parents to retire in JB nursing homes if they cannot afford Singapore’s nursing homes. Following the negative response from the ground,...