TR EMERITUS

Feedback: In engineering terms, it refers to data collected at all stages of a work process that is used to ensure that the process is running according to specifications so as to achieve a desired outcome. If any of the data collected should fall outside the specified parameters then corrective action to ensure the defective... 

Singapore has seen a massive influx of foreigners in recent years, mostly lured in by the promise of (by the standards of the countries they come from) high-paying jobs. The country’s population has now swelled to over five million, 36% of whom are foreigners. This has resulted in a host of social problems, ranging from... 

Government or government-linked organizations have been making the news very regularly over the last few years, very often for the wrong reasons. Unsurprisingly, these failings have caused a fair amount of disquiet among the general population and have seriously undermined public confidence in the Civil Service and government... 

Recently, two foreign professionals, Swiss national Oliver Fricker and Briton Lloyd Dane Alexander broke into SMRT Changi Depot and vandalized a train with graffiti. Fricker was arrested a few days after a video of the vandalized train appeared on Youtube, while Alexander has fled the country. The Singapore government has... 

By Tan Keng Leng It was reported in the Friday, 19/02/2010 edition of The New Paper that serial sex offender Khairulhizam Din Ahmad had been convicted of robbing a 15-year old girl, hence called “Mariam”, after tricking her into having sex with him. Khairulhizam, who had a string of previous convictions before this,... 

By Tan Keng Leng Faithful readers of the Temasek Review have got one common grouse: why does a tiny country like Singapore have the highest-paid ministers in one of the most bloated cabinets in the world? To be fair, most Singaporeans don’t mind paying their cabinet ministers really high pay, provided they can deliver... 

By Tan Keng Leng Recently, PM Lee declared that “Singaporeans will always come first” for his administration. Predictably, this announcement was met by a storm of protests both from the pro and anti-government factions of netizens. The anti-government factions denounced his declaration as just propaganda intended to... 

By Tan Keng Leng Mr. Prime Minister, We are a group of concerned Singaporean netizens, and we are writing in to you to express our unhappiness at the direction the country has been heading towards since the last General Election. As citizens, it is our birthright to decide the direction we want the country to take, to elect...