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The Singapore Government, which was praised as the gold standard in managing the coronavirus has been struggling to show that it has grip on things. The dramatic spike in cases of coronavirus has come from the one area that was simply ignored – in the areas that were housing Singapore’s vast number of foreign workers. In... 

A sociologist, a political scientist, a media studies professor, and two economists meet in a webinar to talk about Singapore beyond the pandemic. The sociologist emphasizes the social inequities surfaced by the pandemic. The political scientist urges a mindset change from profit calculation to moral reasoning in the formulation... 

Singapore reported 788 new Covid19 cases at noon on Wednesday (May 6), taking the country’s total to 20,198. The vast majority of the new cases are work permit holders residing in foreign worker (FW) dormitories, said the Ministry of Health in its daily update of preliminary figures. Eleven cases are Singapore citizens or...