Here’s to an accessible govt with lots of heart

In the last of our five-part series featuring YouthInk’s best writers and their views on Singapore, Sanjiv Nanwani sizes up the Government.
THIS year was a commendable start for the ‘new’ Singapore Government.
Backed by a strong mandate, it delivered sterling results, perhaps most vividly indicated by a booming economy.
It all sounds well and good, and the [...]

Salary issue: Gender debate goes on

The gender gap in Singapore is closing, with women in their 20s earning 98 per cent of what their male counterparts do. From the youth perspective, though, is the concept of gender equality something they genuinely subscribe to? They speak up.
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Make it a fair race

ONE often hears the argument that a salary defines equality between [...]

Is there a need to increase public transport fares?

It was announced that MRT fares will be unchanged but bus fares will go up by one to two cents on Oct 1. Youth give their views.
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Nationalise public transport sector
THE current economic structure of our public transport industry results in private operators focusing on pursuing profit.
These operators should be commissioned as statutory boards.
As autonomous government [...]

Does a school environment nurture guile?

Can top students develop guile outside traditional hot-house schools? Mr Ngiam Tong Dow, a former civil servant and currently chairman of Surbana Corporation, suggested they might. YouthInk writers speak up.
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School of hard knocks
STREET smarts, a cunning mind and being business savvy are some habits that can be associated with the trait, guile. It is no [...]

How 9/11 has affected S’pore youths

On the eve of the sixth anniversary of the Sept 11 attacks on the World Trade Center, YouthInk writers consider the impact on their lives.
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Numbed by media attention
THE constant media onslaught in recent years covering terrorist events, from car bombs in Iraq to anthrax scares in the United States, has numbed us to the facts.
The [...]

Push for trilingual students: Language boon or barrier?

Incentives for students to pick up Malay were introduced at the National Day Rally. Will the move go down well?

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It simply makes economic sense
PRIME Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said that thus far, only one school has expressed interest in offering Bahasa Indonesia as a third language in its curriculum.
It’s a worrying uptake rate, considering [...]