Singapore Insights

I was in a discussion earlier on and an interesting topic came about on why the government is putting in to much money into job subsidies. If you’ve read my earlier posts on the Job Credit Scheme, as well as the one on subsidies to hire local graduates, you would know that the government is [...]

Everyone’s talking about it. Why wasn’t it announced when Mas Selamat was captured. Did the Singapore government know anything about it? When Datuk Seri Najip told PM Lee of the capture during an impromptu meeting, the latter mentioned that he already heard of the news from Wong Kan Seng, whom I assume got the information [...]

And so the Mas Selamat saga rattles on. We finally understand how he actually escaped from Singapore to our neighbouring country, what happened during the many months and how he got caught. For the benefit of the readers, here’s a summary of what’s been happening so far. After escaping from the detention centre, Mas Selamat [...]

An economical recession isn’t that bad after all. According to today’s papers airfares has dropped to the lowest in years. Travelling to some major cities are now cheaper by 50% compared to the same period of time last year. For example, an economy-class seat to Tokyo costs just $476 on Northwest Airlines. Last April, the [...]

I won’t go into details about Mas Selamat being caught. You can read all about it here. However, I think there are a lot of doubts over the entire Mas Selamat incident. Firstly, how did Mas Selamat escaped from prison. Its true that the news was out about him climbing out of the toilet window [...]

Once upon a time, superheroes like Spiderman and the Hulk only existed in cartoons and comic books. Over the last few years, we’ve seen many Marvel characters come to life in the movies. I for one was never a fan of the 1970s Batman TV series. I always thought there was no way to replace [...]

If you haven’t read, Singapore SMRT announced that they will lower the train frequency by 30% if the pandemic alert changes to red. Reason simply being that the SMRT service staff will be split into 2 teams and hence prevent the spreading of the virus Any person on the street will tell you it’s a [...]

Financial Planning or more traditionally known as insurance services is a thriving business in Singapore. According to reports today, this sector is doing especially well in the current economic crisis. Here’s why: Zero Overhead for Employers Financial Planners do not draw any salary from the company. Not even a basic salary nor monthly allowance. Whatever [...]