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PM Lee has said he expects the economy to grow by 3-5% this year but that will still only make the economy about 1% bigger than it was at the end of 2019. By way of contrast the US economy ended 2021 over 2% larger. Most of Singapore’s growth in both 2020 and 2021 came from manufacturing with all other sectors below the peak... 

Twenty-six years ago today, Lim Chin Siong died of a heart attack. He would have been 89 years old this year. Lim Chin Siong was the best-known trade unionist and people person in Singapore’s history. He was only 22 when elected as legislative assemblyman for Bukit Timah in 1955. Lee Kuan Yew too was elected in that election... 

What are the likely implications on the economy of more VDMs from 1 Feb, and the change in the definition of "fully vaccinated" from 14 Feb? More people and their families and friends, may not enter malls, dining places, hotels, etc? Perhaps, every day, there may be more people being reclassified as being unvaccinated, such...