Mar 02, 2013
CHATROOM: JEREMY LIM
Focus funds on preventive health, primary and extended care: Expert
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Car loan curbs: What were they meant to achieve?
Mar 02, 2013
Unclear if aim was about financial prudence or cooling COE prices
By Christopher Tan, Senior Correspondent
Sunday, March 3, 2013
That car could cost you $1.6m over the years
Mar 03, 2013
Experts urge buyers to add up the costs and think about what else to do with the money
Experts urge buyers to add up the costs and think about what else to do with the money
By Alvin Foo
Owning a car in Singapore for one's adult life could add up to a whopping $1.6 million, say financial experts. And that's just for a non-flashy 1.6-litre family sedan.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
Diners feeling the staff crunch
Feb 24, 2013
The dining experience has been marred by poorer service and higher food prices brought on by the manpower crunch in the food and beverage industry
By Rebecca Lynne Tan
Modern Singaporean restaurant Wok & Barrel will be shutting its doors for good next Sunday.
The main reason for its closure is one that ripples through the food and beverage industry: a shortage of manpower.
Staff would routinely not show up for work at Ms Shen Tan's 50-seat restaurant in Duxton Hill.
The manpower issue, coupled with other factors such as rising costs of labour and rental, has led her to call it quits.
Picking up the pieces after the protests
Feb 24, 2013
No running away from ageing society, and the need to take steps to deal with it
No running away from ageing society, and the need to take steps to deal with it
By Sunday With Warren Fernandez Editor
The large turnout at the protest rally two Saturdays ago against the Population White Paper culminated in calls from some participants for a referendum on the issue.
Judging by the anger that has raged against the paper's proposals, the outcome of such a poll seems a no-brainer. It is as clear as day that the White Paper has gone down badly.
Declining populations make peaceful neighbours
Mar 01, 2013
WHEN a nation's population is growing it is usually accompanied by a sense of optimism, which is then followed by a desire for expansion. This was the case in both Germany and Japan when World War II broke out.
In 1931 Japan's population was 64.5 million and occupied 145,882
square miles of land. (Its total fertility rate, or TFR, reached 4.1 by
the late 1930s.) Japan cast its eye on Manchuria, seeing it as a source of limitless natural resources and as a buffer between itself and Russia, and invaded in September 1931.
WHEN a nation's population is growing it is usually accompanied by a sense of optimism, which is then followed by a desire for expansion. This was the case in both Germany and Japan when World War II broke out.
In 1931 Japan's population was 64.5 million and occupied 145,882
square miles of land. (Its total fertility rate, or TFR, reached 4.1 by
the late 1930s.) Japan cast its eye on Manchuria, seeing it as a source of limitless natural resources and as a buffer between itself and Russia, and invaded in September 1931.
Friday, March 1, 2013
Why we invent in Britain, but build in S’pore
Today online
28 Feb 2013
For the past 15 years, Dyson’s highly-skilled engineers have been developing a tiny revolution in our laboratories. It is a new motor a third the size of a traditional one, but which can spin 100,000 times a minute — five times faster than a Formula One engine. Making 6,000 adjustments a second for optimal performance, the Dyson digital motor can supercharge prosaic machines. At Dyson we invest heavily in our ideas and develop all of our technology in Britain: All our research takes place in Malmesbury where we employ 850 world-class design engineers and scientists — about a third of them recent graduates.
28 Feb 2013
For the past 15 years, Dyson’s highly-skilled engineers have been developing a tiny revolution in our laboratories. It is a new motor a third the size of a traditional one, but which can spin 100,000 times a minute — five times faster than a Formula One engine. Making 6,000 adjustments a second for optimal performance, the Dyson digital motor can supercharge prosaic machines. At Dyson we invest heavily in our ideas and develop all of our technology in Britain: All our research takes place in Malmesbury where we employ 850 world-class design engineers and scientists — about a third of them recent graduates.
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