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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles: 04/10/07
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles. Tuesday, April 10, 2007. New Paper: Govt Salary Debate. HOW THEY DID IT. MINISTERS' salaries are pegged to the 48 top earners in the private sector in six professions. These include lawyers, accountants, engineers and local manufacturers. The method is to rank these top earners according to their pay, take the median pay and take off one-third. This way, a minister's salary is kept competitive against the private sector. In the end, he argued, there must be a non-f...
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles: Channel NewsAsia: National education has failed to create public-spiritedness: Sylvia Lim
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles. Wednesday, April 11, 2007. Channel NewsAsia: National education has failed to create public-spiritedness: Sylvia Lim. By Hoe Yeen Nie. SINGAPORE : Non-Constituency MP Sylvia Lim questioned the view that Singapore's ministers would succeed in the private sector had they not opted for public service instead. Ms Lim made these points during the debate on the civil service and ministerial pay revisions in Parliament on Wednesday. WORKERS' PARTY SINGAPORE NEWS ARCHIVE.
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles: Straits Times: One year after the vote
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles. Saturday, May 05, 2007. Straits Times: One year after the vote. BY KEN KWEK and LI XUEYING. EXACTLY a year ago today, 1.15 million Singaporeans made their way to 422 polling stations island-wide and cast their ballots in the country's 10th General Election since independence. Singaporeans decided and the People's Action Party (PAP) was returned to power with a strong 66.6 per cent of the vote. The scheme, which rewards low-wage workers for staying employed, was a r...
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles: 04/12/07
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles. Thursday, April 12, 2007. TODAY: Recapture the ideals, vision of 1965, urge MPs. HE HAS spoken fiercely in favour of the market peg for civil service salaries. But when Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew was quoted and referred to by Members of Parliament yesterday, they invoked the ideals he stood for rather than his hard-headed pragmatic approach. Non-Constituency MP Sylvia Lim also quoted Mr Lee on how "political leadership should have passion, commitment and share th...
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles: 04/11/07
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles. Wednesday, April 11, 2007. Channel NewsAsia: National education has failed to create public-spiritedness: Sylvia Lim. By Hoe Yeen Nie. SINGAPORE : Non-Constituency MP Sylvia Lim questioned the view that Singapore's ministers would succeed in the private sector had they not opted for public service instead. Ms Lim made these points during the debate on the civil service and ministerial pay revisions in Parliament on Wednesday. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Singapore p...
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles: Straits Times: Sylvia Lim: Ministers will be out of touch with citizens
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles. Thursday, April 12, 2007. Straits Times: Sylvia Lim: Ministers will be out of touch with citizens. NON-CONSTITUENCY MP Sylvia Lim yesterday pointed out that ministers' pay was likely to rise further in future, a rise she felt would put them out of touch with average citizens. It would, she added, work against the national interest as leaders may face problems getting people to make sacrifices for the country. Does it have a threshold of unconscionability? Ms Lim, c...
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles: Straits Times: Political virgins no more
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles. Friday, May 18, 2007. Straits Times: Political virgins no more. BY LI XUEYING and KEITH LIN. One year ago, they were political novices facing their first General Election. It was all new, from drafting rally speeches, to winning the loyalty of grassroots leaders, to knocking on the doors of constituents. There were also policies such as the GST hike, the offset package, and the ministerial pay increase that they have had to help explain to residents on the ground.
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles: TODAY: Parliament
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles. Wednesday, April 11, 2007. WORKERS' PARTY SINGAPORE NEWS ARCHIVE. Workers' Party @ Parliament. A Singaporean (Perry Tong). A Singapore Odyssey (Melvin Tan). Singapore politics through the eyes of an ordinary heartlander (Bernard Chen). The Itch to Write (Lee Li Lian). Yaw Shin Leong @ WP. The Workers' Party of Singapore. The WP Youth Wing. Channel NewsAsia: National education has failed to.
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles: 06/11/07
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles. Monday, June 11, 2007. New Paper: Young S'poreans: We relate more to Chiam and Low. By Woon Wui Tek. DO younger voters see Mr JB Jeyaretnam as the Rip Van Winkle of politics - away for too long and too old for the job? In a random poll by The New Paper, seven out of every 10 young people surveyed said that age does not matter when judging the performance of opposition MPs. We spoke to 100 Singaporeans, aged between 18 and 30. Those on the "old list" included Mr Jey...
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles: New Paper: Young S'poreans: We relate more to Chiam and Low
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Workers' Party Singapore News Articles. Monday, June 11, 2007. New Paper: Young S'poreans: We relate more to Chiam and Low. By Woon Wui Tek. DO younger voters see Mr JB Jeyaretnam as the Rip Van Winkle of politics - away for too long and too old for the job? In a random poll by The New Paper, seven out of every 10 young people surveyed said that age does not matter when judging the performance of opposition MPs. We spoke to 100 Singaporeans, aged between 18 and 30. Those on the "old list" included Mr Jey...
