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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。4 ]. p3 _8 p2 I
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Singapore's Prime Minister forced to take 36% pay cut - but at $1.7million a year, he's still one of best paid leaders in world- Lee Hsien Loong earns four times the salary of Obama and eight times wage of Cameron
- Singapore leader taking pay cut following public anger over income inequality
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7 p8 U$ }% e8 R6 v% U7 |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 n# @1 Y. ?3 t) nTVBNOW 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。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.
# |8 y( c! [6 }( G$ FLee'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.7 ^1 {+ K! c+ u! c0 D
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).
9 T: Q3 n, S2 U2 A公仔箱論壇Lee has served as prime minister of the prosperous city-state since 2004.
! ]/ |+ [2 E- P: a* ^% n+ ]; itvb now,tvbnow,bttvbThe 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.
( Q2 f& Y" k- X1 F6 i7 CBy 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.
1 k4 V r- M* X F1 CDavid 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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World Leader's Wages
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LEE HSIEN LOONG (Singapore)# Z& ~8 l- s$ d' K( R* |0 t
$1.7m p/a (£1.089m)tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb! B8 }; [ x" q2 {$ E
$ ]0 K' E% ~7 m; s+ r% NDONALD TSANG (Hong Kong)3 ], o+ O) u3 L! G3 F, F
$543,500 (£348,000); z3 e4 I, {9 {" \8 J+ Z. a
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YOSHIHIKO NODA (Japan)
9 w! s3 A! k: \: l4 x n. S$ ?* M$513,000 (£329,000)tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb; F+ O N0 f$ s+ a$ ?/ R0 q
& c. R6 P* Z; `' d I7 c6 k' n5 ] LTVBNOW 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。BARACK OBAMA (USA)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。; C% {+ z5 r; u, c. ~
$400,000 (£256,000)
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JULIA GILLARD (Australia)
# ~: n* _% E5 Q% n公仔箱論壇$379,000 (£243,000)
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NICOLAS SARKOZY (France)
' ~+ i4 G) j- T: a) L9 G$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。; k/ O2 h4 a4 H) y
$296,000 (£189,000)
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DAVID CAMERON (UK PM)
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