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Day: April 21, 2011

Day: April 21, 2011

Don’t make alcohol so conveniently available

admin April 21, 2011 0 Comments
CAP views with concern the comments by the executive director, Ng Su Onn, that consumers wishing to buy liquor at 7-Eleven outlets may be required to show their identity cards. We do not expect any real enforcement of this ruling when none has been apparent before. The staff manning the counters at these convenience stores are themselves usually quite young and we do not see them implementing...
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housing-problems

A credible Housing Policy is long overdue

admin April 21, 2011 0 Comments
Having decent shelter, adequate food, good health care and education are basic human rights of our citizens. The government has a moral responsibility to ensure that majority of its citizens can either own their house or afford to rent public housing. Sadly for the citizens the government is not taking the problem seriously or is going about it the wrong way. For if it was genuine in making...
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Rethink on export-led growth paradigm

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The slowdown in the US economy has heightened the urgency for developing and emerging economies to change their growth strategies. By Kanaga Raja The developing and emerging-market economies that have focussed their current export-oriented strategies on the markets of the major developed economies for achieving growth and job creation should rethink their policies, the United Nations Conference...
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