THE TEMASEK REVIEW

One of the most dreadful thing about  unemployment is the large span of free time we have on our hand. Many simply sleep away so that they do not have to think of ways to spend away those miserable empty hours.   I remembered sleeping till around 9 or even 10am initially when I was unemployed as I did not want to face... 

I have read widely that the economic crisis is  over and many have cheered such positive news. It is like dawn breaking out on a very prolonged period of darkness. We can finally see some light at the end of a very dark long tunnel. For many, they will want to erase such a depressing period from their memory if they could.  The... 

A time comes in your life when you finally get it…when, in the midst of all your fears and insanity, you stop dead in your tracks and somewhere the voice inside your head cries out – ENOUGH! Enough fighting and crying or struggling to hold on. And, like a child quieting down after a blind tantrum, your sobs... 

As I read through the recent Kallang and Selegie crimes that involved  foreigner workers, I wondered if Singapore is as safe as it was before. This also reiterated the common fear among many that merely mass importing foreign workers into our country for the sake of economics  will backfire in the long run. As I prepared... 

Introduction   There has been a recent report on the audit lapses of  four   of our state agencies (MDA, MOE, MTI and Mindef)  and I wondered if we are that squeaky clean after all.   The Public Accounts Committee,  which oversees the whole auditting processing,  is also suprisingly  convened by eight Members... 

  Introduction    According to the latest statistical report on  March  2010, our unemployment rate has fallen from the previous quarter of 3.3% to 3.2%.   Employment also rose from  2.990 million to 3.024 million-  an increase of 34, 000 jobs in the first quarter, the third quarterly increase after  two quarters... 

By Gilbert Goh A friend recently told me that he will be retrenched by the end of July as his company is suffering massive losses from the current recession. As the doom days get nearer, he became rather edgy.  This is his third time out of work after staying jobless for a few months last year. He only works in his current... 

The Straits Times Forum editor Yap Koon Hong has told opposition politician Chee Soon Juan that he would be denied space in the Forum pages until he withdrew his “serious and unfounded aspersions” on the integrity of the newspaper. He was responding to previous reports on the SDP website which implied that The Straits... 

By Gilbert Goh   Introduction Parliament has approved legislation to increase  the number of  Non-Constituency Members of Parliament (NCMP) from three to nine   during the next 2012 General Elections.  The current NCMP seat is occupied by Ms Sylvia Low, Chairman of the Worker’s Party. Her team had the best opposition... 

By Gilbert Goh Fearful fickle-minded voters According to the latest Registers of Electors in 31 March 2010, a total of 2.311 million Singaporeans are eligible for voting (elections.gov.sg). During the last elections in 2006, a total of 2.150 million Singaporeans were eligible to vote. There is thus only a mere increase...