PM, ministers to get pay rise of between 14% and 33%
(www.channelnewsasia.com) (Tuesday, 08 April 07)

I feel that the ministers shouldn’t get such a huge increase in pay rise. As Lee Kwan Yew quoted, saying would you (referring the citizens of Singapore) rather lose billions of dollars in funds and foreign reserves than to prevent an increment in pay rise for our ministers? Even the private sectors such as banks and lawyer firms, which have been doing very well in these 2 years, do not enjoy such increment benefits comparing to those working in the parliament. The revision on the pay increment for civil servants such as teachers was a right move. After all, we need to pay teachers well in order to attract better teachers in the future for our future generation.