Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Rountable on social and political issues

I had a roundtable discussion with three young people about social and political issues in Singapore. We started with different perspectives and managed to find common ground on the following issues:

a) Educate people about the values of honesty, fairness and public service
b) Tell consumers about their rights under the Consumer Protection and Fair Trading Act and the Unfair Contracts Act
c) The slogan "cheaper, better and faster" is not good and not fair for workers
d) Media to reflect honest and diverse views
e) The standard of business ethics in Singapore is rather bad
f) Singaporeans need to improve our social behavior