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Last Friday, Taiwan's parliament voted to legalize same-sex marriage, a first for Asia. In doing so, it met the deadline imposed by the constitutional court, which struck down the Civil Code's definition of marriage as exclusively between a man and woman in 2017. Singapore Unbound salutes all the Taiwanese LGBTQ activists and... 

Why are so many people so very upset about the 99 years lease decay? To answer that question, we must be absolutely honest with ourselves. Singapore's land area is only about 722 square kilometres, or about 1/27th the size of Johor. In it, there are competing demands for housing, industrial developments, hospitals, schools,... 

Today’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) release of GDP for the first quarter 2019 actually shows an acceleration in annualized quarter-on-quarter growth to 3.8% despite the drop in year-on-year growth to 1.3%, below expectations of 1.5%. Manufacturing was the main culprit since it constitutes around 22% of GDP and fell...