The SMRT Labour Dispute: Symptoms of a dirty business |
Corporate greed, old authoritarian hangovers, and demographic changes in the foreign labour industry |
Late last month 171 Chinese national bus drivers who were employed by the Singapore Government controlled bus and underground railway company SMRT took industrial action by staging a two day walkout. (...) |
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Who rules Singapore? |
The only true mercantile state in the world |
The story of Singapore is an intriguing one. It's about how an island at the bottom of the Malay Peninsula developed into a modern city state and into one of the most powerful economies in the Asian (...) |