It was reported that Singapore prime minister Lee Hsien Loong will donate his pay increment of S$600,000 a year for the next five years to charity after Singaporeans became outraged by the recent ministerial pay hike. So does that make Lee Hsien Loong a modern day Robin Hood? No. Unlike the real Robin Hood who… Read More: Modern day Robin Hood? »
1 Singaporean commits suicide everyday on average. 70% of those who commit suicide in Singapore are between 20 and 49 years of age. They kill themselves mainly because of “financial commitments, having stress at work, caring for the elderly and the children at home”. (AFP, 8 September 2003) 18 divorces take place on average in… Read More: Mindboggling statistics »
Once again, Lee Kuan Yew is trying to spread FUD when he said that it is “absurd” for Singaporeans to quarrel about ministerial pay and warned that Singapore would suffer if the government could not pay competitive salaries. “Your security will be at risk and our women will become maids in other people’s countries,” he… Read More: You $pin Me Round »
In fact, it may have quite the opposite effect, if you read into the findings of the Happy Planet Index. Compiled by an independent British “think and do” tank called nef (the new economics foundation), the index “addresses the relative success or failure of countries in supporting good life for their citizens, whilst respecting the… Read More: Economic prosperity can’t guarantee happiness »
The Japanese are not only capable of coming up with crazy inventions, they also have a weird taste for food. Just when you thought Nyotaimori (the Japanese art of eating dead, uncooked fish off of a naked woman’s body) is bad enough, along comes another way of eating that’s fraught with moral compunctions of cannibalism.… Read More: Hannibal the Cannibal would have been proud »
What can you legally do in France? a) adopt a pet as a childb) force your parents to attend schoolc) force your spouse to take vacation with youd) marry a dead person Related post:Where the streets have same name Technorati Tags: France interesting stuff legal