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What started out as a modest event to protest against the projections in the Population White Paper has now snowballed into a people's movement. Mr Gilbert Goh, President of Transitioning.org and organizer of the event, was initially expecting not more than 200 people to attend the protest rally - 'Say NO to 6.9 million population',... 

Thick smoke engulfs Newton MRT station. (Photo from commuter Victor Tan). A fire has broken out at Newton MRT station this morning. Several SCDF fire engines were seen at the scene. SMRT at about 10:16am, tweeted to say that northbound train service from Marina Bay to Toa Payoh will be stopped. Free bus services are available... 

As population density increases, fertility declines, according to the study. A study carried out by W. Lutz of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria, M. R. Testa of the Vienna Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Sciences and D. J. Penn of the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Ethology also...