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OPT: Singapore is the most overpopulated country in the world

OPT: Singapore is the most overpopulated country in the world

An ‘optimum’ population', in dictionary terms, is the ‘best or most favourable’ population. But a dictionary cannot tell the whole story. Best for what purpose, and best according to which criteria? For OPT, a green think tank, an optimum population means, at its simplest, a population size which is environmentally sustainable... 

‘Guest Workers’ or Modern Slavery?

‘Guest Workers’ or Modern Slavery?

A pile of bags and clothing on an old shop front verandah on Cuff Road in Singapore's Little India is "home" to a group of about 50 migrant workers who have been spat out by an economy that relies heavily on so-called "guest workers." All are men from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, lured to Singapore by shady labor agents who... 

Singapore has overtaken Hong Kong on most expensive House-Price indicators

Singapore has overtaken Hong Kong on most expensive House-Price indicators

IN RECENT months several countries have experimented with measures to cool bubbly property markets. Yet since The Economist’s global round-up of housing markets was last published in April, house-price inflation has accelerated in some of the very countries where the authorities have intervened to slow its rise. Asia has been... 



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