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‘U.S. defense contractor Northrop Grumman Corp. hopes to pitch its high-altitude military drones to Singapore to help the city-state better monitor air and sea traffic at the Strait of Malacca, one of the world’s busiest trade corridors…. “The need to be able to have very long-range intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance... 

Complaints about prices of goods and services in Singapore being higher than those in HK, Taiwan or South Korea are getting increasingly common. This news gives you a slight insight into the reasons why this is so: the PAP Government is the biggest and most avaricious rent-seeker in this country. In the latest six-monthly review,... 

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Singapore has to strike a balance between maintaining its competitiveness and caring about the less well-off as it strives to reduce the income gap. (CNA report a few weeks ago: More extracts at end of article.) And the Budget statement and the spin that the conastructive, nation-building...