Mr. Lim Swee Say, NTUC DeputySecretary-General, projected that the rate ofunemploymentwouldriseto 4 per cent before the end of the year, and reach 7 percent next year.
Yap Swee Seng, a representative with rights group Forum Asia, raised doubts the commission will be fully independent because it could be funded and controlled within the ASEAN Secretariat.
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In 1993, he claims, SIMEX president Ang Swee Tian introduced Philippe Bonnefoy of European Bank and Trust to him.