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This week, news broke that a 42-year-old Myanmar man named Maung Maung Aung Saw Tu has sued Singapore’s Public Utilities Board (PUB). His lawsuit is premised on the allegation that PUB violated its duty of care by failing to ensure that safety drain grates on the roadway were safe. He is seeking at least $578,000 in damages in a negligence lawsuit against PUB for injuries sustained last January.
In the context of Singapore, the lawsuit is certainly an anomaly. Singaporeans may complain about the failure of their government and its institutions, but actually taking legal action against the government does not come to mind. It is no exaggeration to say that the extensive relationship between the average citizen and the authorities is that of a parent/child or teacher/student dynamic. Never imagined the possibility of suing, and indeed this was the prevailing view on the internet. is.
But why would it be “bold” to hold a government agency accountable in court when in fact it was negligent? After all, aren’t we the payers of such an agency? If they didn’t do their job properly, don’t they deserve to be held accountable? , suffered a fairly serious injury and is now limping with a cane.
I don’t have enough information to discuss the legal merits of this case, but the fact that Singaporeans seem to perceive it to be ‘daring’ to hold government agencies accountable in court is something that I It is certainly interesting given that we are the first case. – World democracy. Isn’t it normal for courts to hold government agencies (publicly funded bodies) accountable?
Does your submissive attitude toward people perceived to be in positions of authority prevent you from holding them accountable?
As the world mourns ‘old-timey’ icon Queen Elizabeth II, she reconciles the twin effects of the global coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing war in Ukraine as she leaves a world of soaring inflation. need to remember that In this volatile global economic outlook stands Singapore, a country whose economic prosperity is highly dependent on world events.
Economists have warned that Southeast Asian nations would be hit if the U.S. were to fall into recession, but countries such as Singapore that rely on trade and tourism are more vulnerable than others.
The first two quarters of this year have already seen negative growth in the United States, considered by some to be a “technical” recession.
And if the world’s largest economy were to go into a full-blown recession, CNBC reported on Sept. 4 that it could hit Singapore before other Southeast Asian nations.
How will the recession affect the general public in Singapore, where there is no minimum wage and the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is set to rise? defended sex. We have also urged the government not to raise the GST at this time.
In January of this year, he was a WP Member of Parliament (MP) for the Sengkang Group Representative Constituency (GRC). Jamus Lim suggested that rate hikes should be reconsidered given Singapore’s economic conditions.
“We also need to take very seriously the wisdom of the GST hike,” he wrote in a Facebook post on Wednesday (January 26). It could not only pour, but shock an economy that has just recovered.”
Fast forward to about nine months and the government is doing everything in its power to keep the GST going as planned. Will this put Singaporeans in even more trouble?
Like it or not, Singapore is a small country whose fate depends on world conditions. As an article in this publication points out, the Singaporeans triggered a series of events that ended the instability in Southeast Asia following the fall of Saigon in 1975, hence the last Soviet leader Mikhail.・We must be very grateful to Gorbachev.
With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991, Vietnam came to terms with the new post-Soviet world order. Despite defeating US-backed non-Communist powers in Southeast Asia, Hanoi chose to join ASEAN to pursue a different, more peaceful destiny, along with Phnom Penh and Vientiane. The immediate and practical reason for Vietnam’s turn was the collapse of the Soviet Union, the region’s leading military supporter, in 1991 following Gorbachev’s reformist policies and rapprochement with the West. .
Just like Queen Elizabeth II, Mr. Gorbachev leaves this world at a crossroads. The extent to which Singapore can navigate the future will depend on its ability to be agile and flexible as the world evolves. Can our government do this?
Seeing how the government is sticking to the (planned) GST hike before the pandemic rears its ugly head, before the war in Ukraine and before global inflation is not very confident .
Is Singapore fine-tuning its internal policies to global events?
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