Lingam endorses Tan Kin Lian (Tamil)

David Lim (Mt Everest climber) talks about Tan Kin Lian

David Lim led the first team from Singapore to climb Mount Everest. Later, he was disabled by a medical condition and was out of job for a few months. Here is his story.

Concerns of young people and parents

Young people and parents share the same concern for the young - getting a job and earning an adequate salary. However, parents are also worried about the difficulty faced by their children in finding a life partner and having children. The young people are not as worried over these matters as their parents - because they have other more urgent things to worry about. See this survey report.

Conclusion: If we are to encourage more young people to get married and have children, we need to look into the root causes of the problems.

Interview over Batam Radio

Message from a supporter

Hi Mr Tan,
It was a pleasure talking with you last night. You left the event right after, there were quite a few folks who were keen to speak to you. they really envy us having the golden opportunity. You may be pleased to know that you've a strong followers/believers.

My feedback for your messaging is that what do you want the voters to walk away and remember with all the time. For GE, one of the success factors for worker party is that they had a very strong slogan/message "towards the first class parliament". It not only shown the voters that they are professional but also prove to us that they have spent time planning for the GE. I did not see the same for other opposition parties including PAP. PAP used to use "upgrading" as the campaign draw but nothing this GE.

Also, "voice of people" is a good message. However, as we discussed last night, without realizing it, the portion of PR is overwhelming now, based on all the incidents and experience we had gone through, hence I'm not sure if we want to be more specific, for example "standup for the rights of citizens". Even when you talked about CPF, even through PR contributed to it but they can withdraw them whenever they leave the country yet we as Singaporean can't. 


There are just so many experience we have gone through that it is necessary for someone like you to consolidate the thoughts and float it up to the government. singaporean are in general passive, busy with all material needs, ambitious in their career goals that we never stop and think what is good for us and our children and the nation.

It was a real pleasure talking to you, you're a down to earth, sincere and action oriented person. this is what we need. change is good as the country evolves, we are not saying that we need to fix what is not broken but we need to identify problems has changed and previous process/system may need to be re-assess as the country transform.

Good luck again and continue to drive. it is not an easy journey and thanks for stepping up to the challenge.

J

Android app for TKL campaign

Supporters of Mr Tan's Presidential Campaign who use Android phones can now download an Android Application (free) to keep-up-to date with the latest developments on the campaign happenings!


Simply search "tankinlian" on Android Market.

This app performs best on Android phones with small to medium screens and is supported on phones running Android firmware version 1.5 and above.

20 year return on asset classes

This table shows the return on equities, bonds and treasury bills over the past 20 years in various countries - nominal return, inflation and real returns. Globally, equities earned a real return of 5.5% (after adjusting for inflation) compared to 1.6% for bonds. For the long term investor, it is better to invest in equities, as it provides a higher return than bonds or treasury bills. The risk of long term investments can be mitigated by the investment strategy explained in my book, Practical Guide on Financial Planning.