100 days as Manpower Minister: Tan See Leng’s ‘steep learning curve’ on puzzling acronyms, issues such as migrant worker dorms

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SINGAPORE — When Manpower Minister Tan See Leng took up the post in May this year, he was met with a host of unfamiliar acronyms.

 

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Acronyms will be the MOM of all screw ups. No pun intended tho...

Steep becoz bureaucracy

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