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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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# x0 t/ b' v3 ~5 MSingapore's Prime Minister forced to take 36% pay cut - but at $1.7million a year, he's still one of best paid leaders in world
  • Lee Hsien Loong earns four times the salary of Obama and eight times wage of Cameron
  • Singapore leader taking pay cut following public anger over income inequality
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Amid growing public anger over housing costs and spiralling income inequality, Singapore's prime minster, Lee Hsien Loong, has agreed to take a 36% pay cut – but he  will remain the world's best-paid leader.5.39.217.76# i/ ]- Z" B' p6 J0 q
Lee's office said he would accept the recommendations of a government-appointed committee to reduce his salary, as well as those of his ministers and the city-state's president." x! @, s  j9 I8 B6 C0 {' i% D
Lee appointed the committee after a disastrous parliamentary election in which his party faced historic losses. The committee recommended that Lee's salary be cut by 36%, to 2.2m Singapore dollars (£1.1m).公仔箱論壇4 w  j- `4 [0 }: {
Lee has served as prime minister of the prosperous city-state since 2004.5.39.217.76: F1 ~5 w$ U8 [: S7 Q; S1 G( f  N
The 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.# X; T$ U$ N0 c* @, J" f
Salaries 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。- ?) z4 e) S9 x
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.
/ ~2 C, T8 E* ]/ \7 mTVBNOW 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。By 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.
, {+ D8 i, Y3 m" G3 p* FDavid 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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The salaries of Singapore's leaders soared in the 1990s, when they were benchmarked to an average of the highest private sector pay in Singapore.
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+ x( r" g% |$ f, p/ ^tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbWorld Leader's Wages
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  V# R3 V4 s) N+ otvb now,tvbnow,bttvbLEE HSIEN LOONG (Singapore)
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4 ?* o* l9 r5 F) ?+ n. o公仔箱論壇DONALD TSANG (Hong Kong)公仔箱論壇; |: ^" B5 c; T* u
$543,500 (£348,000)
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; L+ G8 W7 H5 T2 @tvb now,tvbnow,bttvbYOSHIHIKO NODA (Japan)5.39.217.76' R. k+ L7 I4 x2 _+ B
$513,000 (£329,000)7 {" \2 p( }* }0 a( u. O7 x0 K9 T
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$400,000 (£256,000)5.39.217.76; P; p- |; r$ u' z* S  c( [7 C
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JULIA GILLARD (Australia)
" T9 m' z% F3 k. X$379,000 (£243,000)
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NICOLAS SARKOZY (France)公仔箱論壇, _* \/ e) ?1 b" P$ X: y9 B' ]! d/ U- Z
$302,000 (£193,000)
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4 h' @7 f; e* PANGELA MERKEL (German)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。) J' Y& p% u2 A( t, ^
$296,000 (£189,000)
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( \4 H/ Y0 S8 w$ c" q  Stvb now,tvbnow,bttvbDAVID CAMERON (UK PM)/ a! Z: \& I" X6 F8 y
$222,000 (£142,000)
Well, from what I know about the politics is that the leaders or the politicians do not really care about the salary.  They want the the fame and the benefit brought to them.  Anyway, the leaders are mostly all rich and wealthy people, cut 36% means nothing to them at all !
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Let me put it this way, Politics, n Business is a love hate relationship. Always seen together in a partnership, but never has got along very well, down in history.TVBNOW 含有熱門話題,最新最快電視,軟體,遊戲,電影,動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。& B1 N7 l" I' p8 n
When Politics n Business merged, the stage is a limelight of glamor n power n high society.
, s2 j7 j- ^' p0 }# X7 C6 j0 O& OAll kinds of cards, n possibilities that run in the back stage, is a myth n a mystery n legend...
8 b- Z. W5 ~0 s' Q8 X5.39.217.76The truth and the truth, who can know except but the producer director n cast players.
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& c! w$ R5 K/ w, K5.39.217.76As long as the world is at peace, with a booming economy, n the flourishing trading business, who cares what they do not need to know.
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