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The Workers’ Party has published its Population Policy Paper to “enable Singaporeans to better understand the rationale and computations behind WP’s proposals” in Parliament. The Party added it was important to encourage further debate on the population issue. The Workers’ Party press release is as follows: The... 

Thousands of Punjabi farmers have bought land in distant Georgia lured by cheap prices, angering some locals. Ramandeep Singh Palhan bought 30 hectares of Georgian farmland on the cheap. (21 Feb) - Larisa Maisuradze was astonished to see the sudden proliferation of foreigners driving farm machinery near her sleepy village,... 

(Bloomberg, 21 Feb) - Singapore will probably force companies to further reduce their reliance on foreign labor in the 2013 budget, after a public backlash against the influx of workers led to the biggest demonstration in more than a decade. Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam may cut the ratio of overseas workers companies...