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[GE 2025] PAP candidates who blatantly gong jiao wei edition

The PAP Wayang is on the road

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Singapore’s Billionaire Class Unsettled by Moves to Narrow Wealth Gap​

The city-state’s popularity as a base for the super rich leaves the ruling party with a delicate balancing act


Singapore’s Sentosa Island is a popular place for the wealthy to live.

Singapore’s Sentosa Island is a popular place for the wealthy to live.
Photographer: Catherine He/Getty Images
By Faris Mokhtar and Low De Wei
25 April 2025 at 7:00 AM SGT
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In September 2023, Singapore’s then prime minister-in-waiting, Lawrence Wong, told a meeting of investors that they shouldn’t engage in ostentatious displays of wealth if they want to set up in the city-state.

“If you would like to be here, please follow our norms, follow our rules,” Wong said at an event organized by former junk-bond king Michael Milken’s institute. “If you think they are not for you, that is okay. You can take your money elsewhere.”
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IMF cuts its Singapore 2025 growth forecast as Trump tariffs, US-China trade war bite​

Singapore economy now seen growing 2 per cent, down from previous forecast of 2.5 per cent.

The Singapore economy is now seen growing 2 per cent, down from a previous forecast of 2.5 per cent.PHOTO: ST FILE
Ovais Subhani

Ovais Subhani
UPDATED APR 25, 2025, 10:35 AM


SINGAPORE – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) slashed its 2025 growth forecast for Singapore, along with those of its Asean neighbours, saying the outlook has dimmed amid US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs and his escalating trade war with China.

The pace of Singapore’s economic growth will drop to 2 per cent in 2025, from 4.4 per cent achieved in 2024, said IMF in the latest update to its World Economic Outlook report on April 24.

IMF’s previous forecast made in October 2024 for Singapore’s growth this year was 2.5 per cent.

IMF cuts its Singapore 2025 growth forecast as Trump tariffs, US-China trade war bite​

Singapore economy now seen growing 2 per cent, down from previous forecast of 2.5 per cent.

The Singapore economy is now seen growing 2 per cent, down from a previous forecast of 2.5 per cent.PHOTO: ST FILE
Ovais Subhani

Ovais Subhani
UPDATED APR 25, 2025, 10:35 AM
SINGAPORE – The International Monetary Fund (IMF) slashed its 2025 growth forecast for Singapore, along with those of its Asean neighbours, saying the outlook has dimmed amid US President Donald Trump’s global tariffs and his escalating trade war with China.
The pace of Singapore’s economic growth will drop to 2 per cent in 2025, from 4.4 per cent achieved in 2024, said IMF in the latest update to its World Economic Outlook report on April 24.
IMF’s previous forecast made in October 2024 for Singapore’s growth this year was 2.5 per cent.
 
They talk shit because their target audience, their fans, enjoy that. It resonates with them. Which then translates to votes.

As a wise Tiong once said:

愚昧的百姓是极权腐败的土壤

Translated...

Foolish citizens are a fertile ground for tyranny and corruption.
 
They talk shit because their target audience, their fans, enjoy that. It resonates with them. Which then translates to votes.
PAP followers thank their leaders for providing them with wheelchairs,
but forget that it is these politicians who broke their legs to begin with.

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They talk shit because their target audience, their fans, enjoy that. It resonates with them. Which then translates to votes.

As a wise Tiong once said:

愚昧的百姓是极权腐败的土壤

Translated...

Foolish citizens are a fertile ground for tyranny and corruption.
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Saw Hei is always a Saw Hei….
 
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