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Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam "New council to create jobs on unprecedented scale". The above paragraph is the headline news in today's Straits Times. As Singapore eases up on our Circuit Breaker, what will follow will be massive unemployment. We are looking at 100,000 job seekers. This is akin to the British withdrawal from Singapore... 

Tin's definition of "budgetary support" is the money the government is using to prop up the "economy" as a whole. In other words, it is "budgetary expenditure", which might not largely benefit the individual directly. A more useful comparison with other countries would be to look at how much tax and social security revenue... 

I was sent this picture showing a very crowded bus stop full of students, after classes ended yesterday. I gather the bus stop must be very near to the school or even just outside it. There is absolutely no social distancing exhibited by the students at the bus stop. Ong Ye Kung tells Singaporeans that social distancing measures...