Top Story - Sunday, February 7, 2010 20:28 - 39 Comments
Public housing flats – Singaporeans come first or foreigners?
Andrew Loh
If you have always thought the homeless are lazy people or are unemployed on purpose, perhaps you have bought into the stereotype of these people too conveniently. Yet it is not uncommon to find such views of the homeless among Singaporeans.
However, in our visits with the homeless at various places around S’pore it was quite clear to us that these people are no lazy-bones or “beach bums”, as they’re sometimes accused of being.
Indeed, what we saw were people who have, for various reasons, fallen on hard times. But more importantly they are trying to help themselves out of the depths into which they have sunk. Continue…
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Conflicting signals from Government over foreign manpower policy
By Ng E-Jay
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Nowhere else to turn
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Do upgrading skills and Workfare help low-wage workers?
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