Yahoo! News Singapore, 18 Jan 2012In a letter sent to the media on Thursday evening, Lee said that because all families want to ensure the best for their children and to allow them to go to good universities, he and his government had to be “pragmatic”, paying “competitive salaries in order to have a continuous stream of high calibre people to become MPs (members of parliament) and then ministers”.
Otherwise, Singapore would quickly transform from a little red dot to become a “little black spot”. Full story
