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Posts tagged with "disabled"
Disabled or not, we are Singaporeans
Dec. 14 | Donaldson Tan About 30 Singaporeans gathered at Speaker’s Corner last saturday, urging the government and society at large to do more for disabled Singaporeans. This event is part of MARUAH’s campaign titled “Me and My Friend”,...
Transport subsidies for the disabled – passing the buck?
Dec. 9 | Exclusive coverage: Starting from today (9 Dec), The Online Citizen will have exclusive coverage the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) which is being held in Copenhagen, Denmark. The reports are by members of ECO Singapore, writing exclusively...
SDP member calls for a more equal and caring S’pore
Aug. 29 | Singapore Democratic Party member Wong U-Wen highlights the difficulties and discrimination faced by the disabled and deaf communities in Singapore. Read: 10 years and still no public transport subsidy for disabled. Read other reports here, here, here.
Why there is no subsidy for the poor….
May. 25 | The CEO of SMRT goes to work in a Mercedes. She deserves it because the profits of SMRT has doubled in the past few years. Even as the economic crisis put thousands of Singaporeans out of the job, the SMRT’s latest quarter results show another...
10 years – and still no public transport subsidy for disabled
May. 24 | Jonathan Koh Reena Rajasvari, 50, has been visually impaired for twenty-two years. Struck by glaucoma – a group of diseases that damaged her optic nerve – she gradually lost her vision in both eyes when she was 28. From afar, however,...
