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[亞洲] Singapore Lee Hsien Loong,to take 36% pay cut - but at $1.7million a year
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Singapore's Prime Minister forced to take 36% pay cut - but at $1.7million a year, he's still one of best paid leaders in world- Lee Hsien Loong earns four times the salary of Obama and eight times wage of Cameron
- Singapore leader taking pay cut following public anger over income inequality
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Amid growing public anger over housing costs and spiralling income inequality, Singapore's prime minster, Lee Hsien Loong, has agreed to take a 36% pay cut – but he will remain the world's best-paid leader.5.39.217.76$ i* x2 ~1 c- I
Lee's office said he would accept the recommendations of a government-appointed committee to reduce his salary, as well as those of his ministers and the city-state's president.
& T& E7 C. f a- n/ l3 i1 RLee appointed the committee after a disastrous parliamentary election in which his party faced historic losses. The committee recommended that Lee's salary be cut by 36%, to 2.2m Singapore dollars (£1.1m).
0 |: ^$ d: W" X1 p( h2 k, }5.39.217.76Lee has served as prime minister of the prosperous city-state since 2004.
1 r' \" m0 Z$ |0 J5.39.217.76The president, Tony Tan, faces a potential salary cut of 51%, though many observers may consider him well paid, at 1.5m dollars for a ceremonial post that requires him to perform only minor duties.
0 @7 ]( c% l' g! {9 ctvb now,tvbnow,bttvbSalaries for government ministers will be reduced by 37% to an annual 1.1m dollars.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。" G" M( |9 J6 t, ~4 ?, L
Despite the pay cut, Lee's salary will still be three times that of the Hong Kong chief executive, Donald Tsang, the world's next highest-paid political leader, who earns about £353,000 a year.
) Z$ }! b8 {! S' m+ Z- r! jBy comparison, Barack Obama, as president of a country of 312 million people that also has the world's most powerful military and the top economy, earns £256,000.
& f" ^, Q8 K& {2 P公仔箱論壇David Cameron makes do on £143,000; the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, collects £194,000; and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, earns £190,000.
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; j J/ M" k+ LThe salaries of Singapore's leaders soared in the 1990s, when they were benchmarked to an average of the highest private sector pay in Singapore.5.39.217.76% k) g3 M9 ?" z" Q' |- C$ R8 |
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LEE HSIEN LOONG (Singapore)
2 ^& L/ B. Q" \2 D4 j$1.7m p/a (£1.089m)
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+ }8 n8 z0 Q2 S9 ^5.39.217.76DONALD TSANG (Hong Kong)
1 F6 H- Y( s7 Z; ~+ } e5 S% z, j' vTVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。$543,500 (£348,000)5.39.217.76( |7 t4 D, k3 x& S" E9 `
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YOSHIHIKO NODA (Japan): N/ w1 H1 |$ ]) U9 M$ k" d0 I
$513,000 (£329,000)tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb' m% Y' F9 N# H# m
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$400,000 (£256,000)0 T* y* @* @, J8 m8 L3 N4 l) h4 y
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JULIA GILLARD (Australia)tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb# L% ?2 C0 W; ^
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NICOLAS SARKOZY (France)
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. ]* P V( ^7 O s' o9 p% `; y5.39.217.76ANGELA MERKEL (German)
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DAVID CAMERON (UK PM)4 H2 x0 q6 S% A
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