TR EMERITUS

Coming right after the awful GDP figures for the second quarter (see Hey Lee Hsien Loong Dude, What’s the Plan?), the trade figures announced by Enterprise Singapore on 17 July were equally, if not more, shocking. Non-oil domestic exports (NODX) fell by 17.3% year-on-year in June, an acceleration from the 16.3% decline in... 

On the same day I read about Singapore’s declining birth rate The number of babies born here last year fell to an eight-year low, posing more demographic challenges for an ageing population. The Report on Registration of Births and Deaths 2018 said 39,039 births were registered last year, a 1.5 per cent drop from 2017. I read... 

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