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

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+ j" Q* n8 W" ?( i5.39.217.76Singapore'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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7 g. f. @& B5 E公仔箱論壇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.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 h/ y# o* E1 N' H, D. M+ l% }
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.
3 @! L% I! q* BTVBNOW 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。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).
: j. j% K  k2 Htvb now,tvbnow,bttvbLee has served as prime minister of the prosperous city-state since 2004.
$ j2 S  \8 [3 R4 ~3 A7 yThe 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.
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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.
; |9 x0 K( |# u% X. M3 ?2 TBy 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.
0 L) h( a/ M7 h  ~# Ntvb now,tvbnow,bttvbDavid Cameron makes do on £143,000; the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, collects £194,000; and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, earns £190,000.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb) U- u7 x: a3 k* p* z

* G# }; T; t7 z1 @0 _! D5.39.217.76The 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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( I5 t3 b# @" O  R. H* q公仔箱論壇World Leader's Wages
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0 ?( r3 ~/ v, d5.39.217.76LEE HSIEN LOONG (Singapore)! R$ H7 C& r1 X; \
$1.7m p/a (£1.089m)
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