WOW! Look!! Another Good news

4getmenot SG

for the gahmen..

First a record employment rate in decades..

then now a third year running of "The most corruption-free nation in Asia"..

i guess the MIW deserves another raise or a fat bonus at the end of the year.. Rolling Eyes

http://news.asiaone.com/a1news/20061106_story3_1.html

Hogzilla SG

But the question is, how do we define “corruption”? Is Neoptism considered as corruption? Is a person not doing his job but yet overpaid, corrupted?

Devil1976 SG

I still REMEMBER some time back 'someone' said he's PROUD that there ain't BEGGARS on SINGAPORE'S STREETS...

I just WONDER how many of those 'important' people frequently PROWL the STREETS....?? Laughing

shinta SG

really no beggars..

cos if they beg the police will come n drag them away

charlize SG

No lah.

Now they sell tissue paper. Laughing

Xtrider SG

and lottery tickets...merely an ungraded version of beggars

<Precious> SG

Who sayz there r no beggars on the streets? Beggars oso have upgraded themselves.... nowadays beg in air-con places... more comfortable mah. There r still some who beg in the streets. Those who say there r no beggars must be blind! Evil or Very Mad

shinta SG

that means police haven haul them off the streets yet

de_middle SG

i see them in hawker centres eating leftovers & they walk up to you at the bustop asking for money.

I really wonder where they get those statistics from Confused

av98m SG

Just outside clementi mrt alone everyday can see at least 2. Confused

revotune SG

some times im so sick of anti gov talk,
pls vote for the opp in GE

action more substance
Rolling Eyes

Hogzilla SG

Wait for the next GE lor.

Originally posted by revotune:
action more substance
Rolling Eyes [/b]

The same applies for the opposition as well.

BillyBong SG

Why is the govt so quick to trump up accolytes claiming 'least-corrupt' or 'corruption free' in Asia?

If Singapore were placed in a ranking exercise with global nations, one wonders what our position would be?

What are our standards against the likes of Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, New Zealand and even tiny Luxembourg?

What's the use of repeatedly ranking us against the rest of Asia? It's like smelling of rotten eggs and comparing against 1000-year-old jackfruits.

Hogzilla SG

There is a saying in Chinese, "bi3 shang4 bu4 zu2, bi3 xia4 you3 yu2", meaning not good enough for the best, too good for the bad. I think that's the situation of our govt.

charlize SG

I just read Today online.

Says Singapore is ranked 2nd in terms of most exciting place for fun or something like that.

I'm like, ooooookay. Laughing

wisefool83 SG

Not so sure about the rest lar, but in terms of corruption, New Zealand has its problem here too. Recently there's a case here where the ruling party used about 400,000 of unauthorised money for election campaign and was found out by the Auditor General and the opposition. So the ruling party threaten to past a retrospective law to make it legal to use the money if the Auditor General doesn't back down. The major opposition party also takes huge sum of money from various religious groups. Also the same opposition party way exceeded his allocated funds for election campaign advertisment because the leader forgot to factor in GST.