Singapore's annual inflation rate stayed at 7.5 per cent in May, boosted by rising food, transport and housing costs, the government said on Monday.
As if to pre-empt that, the National Development Minister said on Saturday that fuel subsidies were not the way to go, and that even "neighbouring countries" are rethinking their subsidies. And recommended that people take public transport instead to cut costs.
I'm not expecting any subsidies. Hand-outs simply do not happen in you're-on-your-own Singapore. But I'm expecting a little less lip service from our ministers. This only looks slightly worse than the minister who, some years ago, drove to officiate a No-Car Day event.
I still haven't seen any of our MPs on the bus. But at least MPs in a "neighbouring country" have taken to biking to Parliament House. I've seen AFP pix so they must be somewhere on the Net too.
On yer bike, Mr Mah!
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