Introduce new taxes for super-rich, MP suggests
There are 44 billionaires and more than 200,000 millionaires in Singapore as at 2018. As Singapore faces the serious problem of inequality, calls are being made for the ultra-rich to ...
Tan Cheng Bock – a conviction leader
On the last day of 2018, Dr Tan Cheng Bock made a momentous announcement on his Facebook page. After 50 years as a practising doctor, he was hanging up his ...
Music returns to Thaipusam
The Hindu community in Singapore, which number some 150,000, celebrated the festival of Thaipusam on 21 January this year. It was a much awaited time not only for its religious ...
Hwa Chong boy shows quitting IP is not the end of the road
On 30 December, as everyone got ready to bid the year goodbye and welcome a new one, the Straits Times published a story which got quite a bit of attention ...
Don’t let dispute affect S’pore-M’sia long-term ties
Just 10 days after the Malaysian opposition coalition, Pakatan Harapan, won the general elections in May, Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong paid a courtesy call to the coalition’s leader ...
Cruise to financial freedom with Mano Sabnani
“If wage earners don’t work on their retirement plans from a young age, they will end up as slaves to MNCs in a globalised world.” Those are ominous words from ...
Meaning in the mission
When your professional training meets the call of the spiritual, it can be a life-changing experience, especially if you have spent half your life answering that call. That inner desire ...
Indomitable, because of dyslexia
“I am where I am today because of dyslexia, and not in spite of it,” said 23-year old Edward Yee. The final year Business and Accountancy student ...
A box full of dreams
Born into a poor family in Zimbabwe, her fate was sealed – or so it seemed. As a girl, she was banned from going to school, although her brother was ...