2020/08/18 |
Singaporeans Are Paid Much Lower Than You Think
Workers in Singapore are paid much lower than workers in other high GDP per capita countries like Switzerland and Norway.
2018/04/24 |
Cambridge Analytica – The Singapore Connections
SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, and other related companies and individuals have several connections with Singapore.
2022/09/07 |
Taiwan’s Economic Slowdown (Part 1): Taiwan’s Wages Are Growing Too Slowly to Allow Profits Grow
Taiwan’s issue isn’t that consumer prices are growing too quickly. It’s that wages are growing too slowly.
2017/08/23 |
Tsai’s Government Failing Taiwan’s Workers with Cruel Minimum Wage Increase
Taiwan has been sinking into a state of stagnation for more than a decade, the Tsai government continues to give businesses too much latitude.
2020/05/19 |
Covid-19 Exposed the Rot at the Core of Singapore’s Migrant Labor System
Singapore's migrant workers have borne the brunt of Covid-19. The real culprit is the government's single-minded focus on economic growth before people.
2020/04/24 |
Taiwan's Response to Covid-19 Is a Lesson in Managing Risk
The Risk Governance Framework is a useful tool for evaluating Taiwan's management of the Covid-19 pandemic.
2020/08/19 |
Taiwan's Minimum Wage Increase Doesn't Go Far Enough
Taiwan’s proposed minimum wage increase is still lower than the minimum wage in countries with comparable GDPs per capita, what a plurality of Taiwanese think, and what Taiwan’s own political leaders say it should be.
2018/02/05 |
The Bitter Truth: Why Asia's Tigers Suffer while the Nordics Thrive (Part 1)
In the first of a 5 part series, Justin Hugo looks at how statistics suggesting the Asian Tiger economies have caught up with their Scandinavian counterparts mask a more sobering wage-based reality.
2018/02/09 |
The Bitter Truth: Why Asia's Tigers Suffer while the Nordics Thrive (Part 5)
Taiwan has outgrown its current economic strategy and needs to move up the value chain to become more like the Nordic countries and the Netherlands.
2020/08/03 |
Salary Showdown: Singapore's Prime Minister Tosses Opposition Leader A Few Crumbs
Singapore’s Prime Minister remains an extravagantly paid outlier.
2020/07/13 |
What Does Data Tell Us About Singapore’s General Elections?
Singapore's ruling People's Action Party has received one its weakest mandates ever. What does this mean for the opposition?
2018/11/27 |
OPINION: How the DPP Failed Its Supporters by Becoming Another KMT
In 2016, the DPP swept into power promising social progressivism and economic rejuvenation. So why does it now look like the KMT's B team?
2018/06/29 |
OPINION: On the Distorted Logic of Ministerial Salaries in Singapore
Singapore's prime minister arguably has less to deal with than his fellow national and municipal leaders, so why is he paid such astounding sums?
2017/09/06 |
It's Time to Return Taiwanese Workers What They Rightfully Earn
Business groups simply do not want to show any respect when it comes to raising their workers’ wages, and it's time to start protecting workers in Taiwan.
2020/03/27 |
Taiwan's Digital Response to Covid-19: Impressive, But Is Privacy Respected?
Taiwan has made advances in tech and deployed big data in the fight against COVID-19. But can privacy be protected?
2017/08/21 |
Taiwan’s ‘Grim Truth’: Vicious Low Wage, Low Productivity Cycle Crippling Workers and Companies
As Taiwanese businesses are unwilling to increase wages for the want to hold onto their profits, they are also complicit in causing themselves to lose demand, and therefore their business sustainability. The government needs to act.
2018/07/06 |
OPINION: Saluting Singapore's Marvelous Work Ethic!
Welcome to the People's Action Party's government school of logical fallacies
2018/07/25 |
ANALYSIS: Why Temasek Holdings' Singapore Pensions Claim Is Tosh
The Singapore government's sovereign wealth fund can be shown to be consistently dishonest over whether it has access to national pension funds.