The outcome is a warning to other governments which have faced questions over their handling of a pandemic that has crippled economies around the world.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s ruling party seeks to extend its 55-year rule with a fresh mandate to counter the city-state’s worst-ever recession amid the Covid crisis.
In 12 previous elections over more than five decades, the PAP — which has led Singapore since its independence in 1965 — has never won less than 93% of parliamentary seats.
Singapore, which was established by Lee Kuan Yew in 1965 after its divorce from Malaysia, must go through another wrenching reinvention to emerge from the pandemic era.
The country's ruling party is positioning for a post-Covid world with planned investment in health and biomedical sciences, climate change & artificial intelligence.
The new cases are a continuation of cryptic infections occurring within the community, Kenneth Mak, the health ministry’s director of medical services.
Singapore’s tourism sector faces a tough challenge as locals prefer to wait to travel to hotspots like Thailand and Malaysia rather than spend on a hotel down the street.
The fake news law has been invoked many times in the run-up to the country's election, set for 10 July, as the govt’s response to the virus became a central issue.
The polls will be a referendum on PM Lee Hsien Loong’s handling of the Covid crisis. A big spike in cases might require fresh restrictions that will hurt the economy.
Crowded cities are rich because there is greater division of labour. The extent of the division of labour depends on the size of the market, wrote Sauvik Chakraverti in 2002.
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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