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[亞洲] Singapore Lee Hsien Loong,to take 36% pay cut - but at $1.7million a year
本帖最後由 kimmi8k 於 2012-1-4 12:45 PM 編輯 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。6 v* Y3 Z- r) \! N% d
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4th January 2012
& b7 J, N( X. |+ nwww2.tvboxnow.comSingapore'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.
7 C# H) ]8 G# `8 \$ nLee'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.
4 }8 k* }, S i! e公仔箱論壇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).
* P0 L( ?- `3 C) G, N; ~# L+ Vwww2.tvboxnow.comLee has served as prime minister of the prosperous city-state since 2004.
6 A6 E- O! T( r; z7 u( qThe 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.
$ r7 }7 k+ U) l* Y( gSalaries for government ministers will be reduced by 37% to an annual 1.1m dollars.公仔箱論壇$ ~. Z I* @% @; X1 Y; @- e
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.
4 w! d- c8 t; w2 M' w1 `+ Ewww2.tvboxnow.comBy 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.www2.tvboxnow.com Y' ?; @$ i- a0 v/ [2 ~- ?1 k) o9 q
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.0 m. G# ~% H6 ^0 h4 m! ?$ o
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$1.7m p/a (£1.089m)
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YOSHIHIKO NODA (Japan)tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb" U1 X' m$ y; `
$513,000 (£329,000)www2.tvboxnow.com7 D0 O6 |7 m: M2 l0 z5 `
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BARACK OBAMA (USA)
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ANGELA MERKEL (German)
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DAVID CAMERON (UK PM)
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