If Lee Kuan Yew were the Chief Executive (CE) can he unite Hong Kong?

I.e. do his socialist magic like he did in 1957 onwards to confiscate land from Farmers and rich land owners for a song to build HDB (also sold to citizens for a song) http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/history/eve...24e4cab8c6and give Hong Kongers hope by providing genuine social mobility, where every working adult can have access to affordable housing be it leasehold 99 years or just 1 year public rentals etc?

NCMP scheme a great replacement for flawed GRC system of elections.

NCMP scheme a great replacement for flawed GRC system of elections

The GRC system was created to promote PAP hegemony and despotism; if anybody still insists that GRC system can actually be justified by its original premise of actually "entrenches the presence of minority MPs in Parliament": then one is a fool since the following 2 examples prove this to be UNTRUE:

Firstly, the law (Parliamentary Elections Act (Ch218), S24(2A)) obviously neglects ANY interest minority existence the moment GRC election results are announced as the statute does states: "In respect of any group representation constituency, no writ shall be issued under subsection (1) for an election to fill any vacancy unless all the Members for that constituency have vacated their seats in Parliament.": there is no need to replace a seat vacated by a minority candidate for any reason: suffice to say that just one candidate who need not be a minority need remain. A bait and switch trick by the PAP?

Secondly, despite needlessly emphasizing minority race differences (through 16 GRCs occupying 76 seats in a 89 seat parliament (=85.4% of all seats post GE2015)), the 16 designated GRCs are only able to guarantee a meagre presence of 16/89= 18.0% minority representation in parliament: far less than the population census result (2014) showing 25.7% of the Singapore as belonging to minority ethnic group. The significant shortfall of 25.7%-18.0%= 7.7% (or equal to 7.7%*89=6.87=~ deficit of 7 minority MPs) remains glaring proof of how deficient/ inadequate the GRC system is at defending minority ethnic interest in parliament.

Current Foreign worker levy system- is it unnecessarily confusing, a waste of manpower and time?

The immediate problems with the current system ('Levies & quotas for hiring Foreign Workers') are multifold:
- Current problems with:

• Phantom Singaporean/ PR workers [tremeritus. e.g.],
• False declaration of qualifications,
• False declaration of salary band and corporate tax evasion through salary refund schemes (worker refunding employer agreed portion of salary),
• Misuse of one type of permit for other types of work: e.g. maids helping behind scenes with employer's hawker business.

Compensate victims losses in Ponzi scheme from winner's profit, so nobody gains.

lenscapes wrote:

Thread: The End of SunShine Empire
"Between August 2006 and November 2007, more than 2,000 packages were sold, bringing in about $180 million to Sunshine's coffers.
"In 2007, the Commercial Affairs Department moved in to investigate its dealings. Only $21 million was seized by the authorities.
Where are the rest??

Re: 'Tax en bloc speculators too'

Response to 'Tax en bloc speculators too'
For those who are not/ 1/2 in favor of an en-block (like e vicinity, want to return to new development), I've 2 suggestions:
1) Vote against it if U're not convinced.

Japan finds more to life than growth

Japan finds more to life than growth
05:55 AM Jan 11, 2011, by David Pilling
Is Japan the most successful society in the world? Even the question is likely (all right, designed) to provoke ridicule and have you spluttering over your breakfast.

Whom should we vote for come election to request "minimum wage"?

Whom should we vote for come elections to request "minimum wages"?

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Hong Kong agrees to minimum wage as billionaires' wealth soars 05:55 AM Jan 07, 2011 HONG KONG - Lawmakers in Hong Kong set the city's first statutory minimum wage at HK$28