Poser over sudden hike


RARELY have so many powerful business organisations and high-powered business leaders united so quickly to protest against a new policy. This has happened against the new foreign workers’ levy that was surprisingly introduced on Monday.

This serious situation has raised these basic questions: “Why was this new levy introduced in a hurry? Why was the business community apparently caught unawares by this huge and untimely levy hike?”

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