Mortgage malaise
In a recent blog post, Minister Khaw Boon Wan urged HDB home owners to get…
The property reality
Property curbs increase prices of HDB flats. This the new property reality. By Leong Sze…
Trickle-down effect – Really?
Throwing money at the problem is not the solution. But somehow, when members of our…
Serious, this gap
The government has admitted a new divide in Singapore: the knowledge divide. It is the…
The art of listening
The conspiracy theorists are already having a field day. Goh Chok Tong's speech on Sunday…
Worrying, satisfying
Pieces of the puzzle are beginning to fall into place. Now we know that the…
The numbers and the realities
By The Independent Good news on GDP. But MTI confirms that importing more foreign workers…
The way we see it
The Independent's view of the news SAME SAME, AGAIN? This newspaper hopes that today's sitting…
The adopted son of Singapore
By Zafar Anjum Movement is life—that’s what I had learnt at an early age. Prophets,…
Confessions of an editor
By P N Balji Editor, The Independent Singapore A reluctant editor, I have been called…