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Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “BTO prices will not rise with resale market: Khaw” (Straits Times, Feb 1). BTO de-linked from resale prices? It states that “National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan today made clear that he has de-linked the prices of new flats sold by HDB from the resale flat market. He has done... 

Since the furore over the population white paper various official statements have been made to try to pacify the people. One such statement is that the scary figure of 6.9 million is not a target but simply the worst case scenario the planners can foresee and it is merely a planning assumption. On the basis of this assumption... 

Minister Iswaran: “6.9 million is there to give an upper end, an upper bound of the possible scenarios we can see looking ahead for 18 years. Why do we need to look at the upper bound? Because if you decide that is the upper bound, then we have to make decisions now about infrastructure, because if you want to build more MRT...