[亞洲] Singapore Lee Hsien Loong,to take 36% pay cut - but at $1.7million a year

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  s1 x7 F0 x0 F( tSingapore'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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% w; d) D' J% j1 L( O3 q' E5.39.217.76Amid 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.
7 a% \3 F3 c7 E  m8 v9 T5.39.217.76Lee'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.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。4 z, B! W; B( v* E# [0 o, q; t
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).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。7 k2 Z& ]2 u: m
Lee has served as prime minister of the prosperous city-state since 2004.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。8 |7 {( n& r6 u* x! |- ~7 Z
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.
* x8 d5 b+ ~" D( HSalaries for government ministers will be reduced by 37% to an annual 1.1m dollars.
: k* b9 z3 T) o* a: F, {% J3 h0 xTVBNOW 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。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.
- b  B1 h3 d7 d. W" YBy 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.
# j8 K- C" [% w" D0 s/ f) H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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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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LEE HSIEN LOONG (Singapore)公仔箱論壇+ F6 _$ d2 o' D: E0 o" K4 H# {/ q3 d
$1.7m p/a (£1.089m): E4 N" X  q% |- y/ r

/ S0 I0 q* J- q) iDONALD TSANG (Hong Kong)
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$513,000 (£329,000)
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BARACK OBAMA (USA)
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JULIA GILLARD (Australia)
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+ n; Q* _1 n( }6 u# E7 @! ^NICOLAS SARKOZY (France)
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ANGELA MERKEL (German)
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DAVID CAMERON (UK PM)
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