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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
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5 c/ v& _% D/ c7 r5 Kwww2.tvboxnow.comSingapore's Prime Minister forced to take 36% pay cut - but at $1.7million a year, he's still one of best paid leaders in world- Lee Hsien Loong earns four times the salary of Obama and eight times wage of Cameron
- Singapore leader taking pay cut following public anger over income inequality
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Amid growing public anger over housing costs and spiralling income inequality, Singapore's prime minster, Lee Hsien Loong, has agreed to take a 36% pay cut – but he will remain the world's best-paid leader.
" V6 s- l2 o u! y. F4 B# {: SLee's office said he would accept the recommendations of a government-appointed committee to reduce his salary, as well as those of his ministers and the city-state's president.
' { v9 k# R4 h O+ O r% Gtvb now,tvbnow,bttvbLee appointed the committee after a disastrous parliamentary election in which his party faced historic losses. The committee recommended that Lee's salary be cut by 36%, to 2.2m Singapore dollars (£1.1m).tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb/ q/ Z( s" d$ e% t
Lee has served as prime minister of the prosperous city-state since 2004.
6 V3 x' \! _! a$ mThe 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.
& u: X0 V* I% z% K: y# N4 {/ |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.
) R3 f3 R& u6 N: n- @ mDavid 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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" X+ E+ I& B. S! z% {7 Y( ^2 s公仔箱論壇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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/ S6 o) f. [8 {' V0 G$1.7m p/a (£1.089m)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。* M# x" J) ?5 l# l
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$543,500 (£348,000)TVBNOW 含有熱門話題，最新最快電視，軟體，遊戲，電影，動漫及日常生活及興趣交流等資訊。, ]$ [! E- h) H" N6 N$ G
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/ M% h' ] l/ P5 {www2.tvboxnow.com$400,000 (£256,000)
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$379,000 (£243,000)
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$302,000 (£193,000)
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ANGELA 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。" i7 m' \& F5 F% F5 j; @: C) c
$296,000 (£189,000)
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E. L, s9 H+ ]/ t l6 `1 }DAVID CAMERON (UK PM)
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