50,770 new citizens/PRs in 2015?
Involve new citizens in all aspects of local life I refer to the article “New citizens need to get involved in all aspects of local…
Procreation
No Brainer: 5% don’t put money in CDA?
New CDA First Step grant benefits lower income families most I refer to the article “New CDA First Step grant benefits lower income families the…
40k citizen births: 100 local jobs?
Singapore’s baby shortage I refer to the article “Tackling Singapore’s baby shortage” (Sunday Times, Feb 14). It states that “33,793 Singaporean babies were born during…
No. of new citizens ‘carefully calibrated’?
No. of new citizens ‘carefully calibrated’ I refer to the article “Number of new citizens in Singapore will be ‘carefully calibrated’: NPTD” (Channel NewsAsia, Jan…
Procreation tax benefits 166x more than childcare help?
169 childcare centres cut fees I refer to the article “169 childcare centres run by 23 partner operators to cut fees from 2016” (Straits Times,…
Hundreds of thousands of responses to REACH over the years, but still …?
“Retirement adequacy received the most feedback” We refer to the article “Retirement adequacy tops feedback received by REACH” (Channel NewsAsia, Nov 18). 39,000 responses in…
Population growth: 1 S’porean = 2 new citizens + 5 foreigners?
We refer to the article “Singapore population now at 5.47 million, slowest growth in 10 years” (Straits Times, Sep 25). Slowest growth in a decade?…
1 in 3 divorce?
I refer to the Department of Statistics’ Statistics on Marriages and Divorces 2013, released on 28 July. The total divorces for 2013 was 7,525. Since…
Alternative news in 1 day? (part 73) – New citizens grew 27%?
I refer to the Editorial “Ms Fu: 20K new citizens, 30K PRs added last year” (TR Emeritus, Mar 5). 20,000 new citizens, 30,000 new PRs…
New citizens granted increased 31%?
TR Emeritus September 27th, 2013 I refer to the articles “Population growth slowest in 9 years” and “Fast-ageing S’pore, fewer to support aged” (Straits Times,…