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Subscribe now Already have a paid account? Sign inA growing number of young, single Singaporeans are moving out in search of freedom and independence. For many the benefits of renting outweigh that of home ownership, especially as property prices keep rising. What does this mean for the nation's approach to housing?
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Subscribe now Already have a paid account? Sign inThe pursuit of racial harmony, backed up by a corpus of laws and penalties, may come at the expense of genuine racial justice.
Over two years, Singapore has risen in position from 160 to 129, thanks in part to the media environment deteriorating in other countries, writes Jom's editor-in-chief, who's on the survey panel. He suggests how Singapore can further liberalise its media landscape.
In and around public housing estates, there is a trend where a greater mixing of ethnicities is accompanied by less socioeconomic mixing. By focusing on the former, Singapore may be paying insufficient attention to the latter.
Among other peculiarities, the public prosecutor chose to proceed on the lightest charge, on only one false statement, and using only two of the many bits of evidence. Its submission, said the judge, "read like a mitigation and were lifted wholesale and repeated for effect by the defence."
Even with secondary school streaming in Singapore set to be abolished by 2024, it'll take more than a policy change to uproot entrenched attitudes towards competitive learning and innate intelligence.
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