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The Irrawaddy- January 29, 2013 Singapore’s economy grew only 1.2 percent during 2012, while the Burmese economy—after years of stagnation—is predicted to grow more than 6 percent in coming years, if rapid reforms continue. The dramatic change in their country’s economic fortunes has not gone unnoticed among the thousands... 

(AFP Photo) The government's recently revealed plan to increase the population of Singapore to 7 million is a shocking one. Most people I know are incredulous at the audacity of such an action and question not only the need but the governments authority to do such a thing. After G.E. 2011, when the PAP got only 60 per cent... 

For the last three years the Reform Party has been saying that the PAP has only one economic idea. That they have rigidly adhered to this idea for fifty years despite all the evidence that the idea itself is bankrupt. Far from producing an economic miracle the PAP government has no plan for making Singaporeans better off...