Aren't you all curious why government workers are paid irregularly?

Happy Birdday too, Jiawei.

In this instance, it's important to note that these are state-owned and not commercial banks. So, the government will be involved too.

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Remember I've banned you all from asking questions in your writing? Dylan ah, please look at your first posting.

Humanitarian is used wrongly above.

Thanks for the good discussions above. You've achieved the aim to at least acknowledge that to simply attribute low corruption to high pay is simplistic. There is a host of other measures and policies -- legal or otherwise (e.g. culture as mentioned by Shi Min) -- that helps with keeping citizens, especially civil servants, clean.

With regard to #3 Christian, Amnesty International did NOT release Ms Suu Kyi -- it's the dictatorial junta that got her arrested and only released her recently.

Evaluation: a question, with reference with Ivan's response, to say that high pay is justified to maintain LHL's standard of living, is this really a good argument? Why?

Grammar: When you use comprise, there's NO NEED to have "of" after "comprise". So for Syeda's case, it's simply: comprising over 3.79 million ...

So, to close off, the point of this question is to make you all realise that BO probably shoulders much more responsibilities than LHL, even if it's just for the fact that USA is the only superpower in the world today which automatically holds USA responsible for most of the major happenings in this world.

This means that the large proportion of high pay for Singapore's ministers is mainly to prevent corruption. This is what makes it controversial. For one thing, is this the best way to prevent/control corruption, which is one of the questions that I posed to you all in the Worksheet.