TR EMERITUS

ST Yesterday (9 Feb), Straits Times' Opinion Editor, Chua Mui Hoong, wrote a news article ('Let's get over that emotional hump') and asked Singaporeans to accept the Population White Paper "for what it's trying to do". She wrote, "Perhaps now right-minded Singaporeans might get over that emotional hump and the 6.9 million figure... 

PM Lee Last September, at a National Conversation event on TV organised by Channel NewsAsia, this was what PM Lee said about Singapore's population: It's very hard to give a concrete figure, because the situation is evolving. We're gradually increasing our land area, and if we rebuild our older towns, then we can accommodate... 

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has acknowledged that the government could have done better in presenting the Population White Paper to the public. The paper, together with the Land Use Plan, forms a roadmap to chart the country’s future policies to tackle the aging and shrinking population and was bulldozed through Parliament...