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Taxi booking - for customers
| This is the brochure for customers to book a taxi using the browser of a smart phone or an iPhone app. | Web Apps & Portals | 02 Feb 2012 | View |
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Taxi Booking (TABS 5) - Chinese
| This is the Chinese brochure of the Taxi Booking system - for taxi drivers. | Web Apps & Portals | 02 Feb 2012 | View |
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Taxi Booking (TABS 5)
| This brochure is for the latest version of Taxi Booking. It is for taxi drivers. | Web Apps & Portals | 02 Feb 2012 | View |
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National health insurance
| Should a country introduce a national health insurance system, and which model works best? | Articles | 01 Feb 2012 | View |
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Buying insurance online
| A project team in NUS Business School asked my views about the possibility of buying insurance online and the need for reinsurance. | Ask Mr. Tan | 01 Feb 2012 | View |
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Make a claim on your health insurance policy
| Here are some tips on how you to make a claim on your health insurance policy and avoid the nasty surprise to find that you cannot get reimbursed for a significant part of your hospital bill | Ask Mr. Tan | 31 Jan 2012 | Link |
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Staggering cost of health insurance
| Are you aware about the high cost of health insurance? The premium to cover age 1 to 75 years, including interest of 4% on the premium, can accumulate to $280,000. Do you expect your medical bill to cost more than this? Is it prudent to spend so much on your health insurance? | Ask Mr. Tan | 29 Jan 2012 | Link |
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How to deal with rising health care cost
| Many people have asked for my advice on how to get the appropriate health insurance to cover their medical expenses when the are old. Here is my advice. Be ready for some surprise! | Ask Mr. Tan | 29 Jan 2012 | Link |
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Asking for advice
| You have to present the full facts before you ask someone for advice or guidance. | Ask Mr. Tan | 26 Jan 2012 | View |
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Withdrawal of CPF savings
| Here are some suggestions to deal with the problem faced by many cash strapped people who need their CPF savings at 55, and do not like to see the money locked up in the CPF Minimum Sum Scheme. | Ask Mr. Tan | 26 Jan 2012 | View |
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CPF and better yield
| In 2004, Lee Hsien Loong, the then Finance Minister, promised a better yield for CPF members by introducing private pension schemes. This suggestion was covered in this report. | Ask Mr. Tan | 26 Jan 2012 | View |
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Topping up CPF account
| CPF took a full page advertisement to advice members to top-up their CPF account. I wish to share my experience. The online process does not work. I was also confused with the administration charge. | Articles | 26 Jan 2012 | View |
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Top 40 blue chips in Singapore
| This table shows the top 40 blue chips in Singapore. Of special interest are the drop in price from the recent high and the dividend yield. | Ask Mr. Tan | 26 Jan 2012 | Link |
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Investing in gold
| A beginner's guide to investing in gold. | Ask Mr. Tan | 26 Jan 2012 | View |
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Reduce the compliance cost of GST
| Singapore has become more costly than Hong Kong for many products that are manufactured in China and other countries. GST adds 7% to the cost of buying a product in Singapore (and Hong Kong has no GST) but imposes an additional cost due to compliance. Here is a way to reduce the compliance cost and make Singapore businesses more competitive. | Articles | 25 Jan 2012 | View |
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Financial Planning Tool
| You can use this financial planning tool to carry out a projection of your savings and investment yield, net of inflation. This tool helps you to make the right decision for your future. | Ask Mr. Tan | 25 Jan 2012 | View |
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Be an Entrepreneur
| Here is a way for someone to start a new business as an entrepreneur and achieve a greater chance of success and without the need for a large capital. You only need to have an idea, the passion and the willingness to slog it out. | Consultancy | 24 Jan 2012 | View |
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Salaries of ministers
| I find the basic salary for ministers to be acceptable, but a high rate of bonus based on performance is bad. "Pay for performance" has its negative impacts, especially in the public sector, and has developed a bad culture in Singapore. | Articles | 23 Jan 2012 | View |
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Invest in gold bar
| I share this story of how a retired school teacher was almost cheated of a large sum of money by investing in gold bars at an inflated price. This type of scam is being applied to other products, such as industrial oil. | Ask Mr. Tan | 23 Jan 2012 | Link |
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Invest in overseas properties
| What are the pitfalls to watch out when you invest in overseas properties? Is there a safe way to invest to benefit from the appreciation of properties, when the economy grows in these countries? | Ask Mr. Tan | 22 Jan 2012 | Link |
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The best way to invest your savings
| What is the best way to invest your savings during the uncertain global environment? Should you invest in gold? What are safe investments that can give a better yield than government bonds and bank deposits? Here are 12 important points for you to ponder. | Ask Mr. Tan | 15 Jan 2012 | Link |
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User Guide for Mailer
| Mailer allows an organization to create marketing letters, send them to a mailing list, track the replies from the recipients, send the letter again to those who did not reply and send a follow-up letter to those who replied "yes". | Web Apps & Portals | 13 Jan 2012 | View |
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User Guide for Alert Portal
| This user guides shows how the public can access the portal and how the service provider can provide alerts and update messages to the portal. | Web Apps & Portals | 13 Jan 2012 | View |
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Alert
| This app allows service providers to send alerts to their customers about breakdown in service. | Projects | 10 Jan 2012 | View |
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Mailer
| | Projects | 10 Jan 2012 | View |
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Survey - future elections in Singapore
| Here are what Singaporeans expect for the future elections in Singapore. | Survey | 08 Jan 2012 | View |
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Risk management and insurance
| Here are some tips on when to self-insure (i.e retain) and when to insure the risk. | Ask Mr. Tan | 30 Dec 2011 | View |
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e-Pay
| A portal for consumers to make payments to businesses | Projects | 28 Dec 2011 | Link |
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Basic taxi service
| Here are the views of 40 people concerning the quality of taxi service in Singapore and suggestions for changes to the system. | Survey | 28 Dec 2011 | View |
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Political Salaries
| Find out what the respondents felt should be the appropriate cut in the Prime Minister's salary and what they think will be recommended by Gerard Ee's committee. There is a big gap. | Survey | 28 Dec 2011 | View |