PAP government trying to shaft 10 million population down Sinkies' throats again

[LITTLEREDDOT]

The findings from the study will be used to support the push for a population of 10 million, with many working and living underground.

A*Star to study impact of urban environment on mental health over three years​

The study will examine factors such as urban design features, density and human behaviours. PHOTO: ST FILE

Ng Keng Gene
Correspondent

Jun 04, 2024

SINGAPORE – The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star) will study over three years the impact of the urban environment on mental health, said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat on June 3.
The study will examine factors such as urban design features, density and human behaviours, Mr Heng said at the opening plenary of the World Cities Summit 2024, held at Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Mr Heng, who is chairman of the National Research Foundation Board, said insights from the study will “serve to better inform the way we rejuvenate, reinvent and reimagine our city-state”.
The A*Star study, which costs $1 million and was commissioned by the Urban Redevelopment Authority and the Housing Board, will be funded by the Government’s $28 billion Research, Innovation and Enterprise 2025 plan.
The five-year plan was launched in December 2020 with an initial sum of $25 billion.
The mental health study was awarded to A*Star in May 2024, and will be carried out by the agency’s Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences.
The Ministry of National Development (MND) said the study will devise a data-driven method to assess how different aspects of the built environment affect the mental well-being of the general population.


Given Singapore’s highly built-up environment, said MND, the country “offers a unique opportunity to conduct mental health research”.
“Current research in our local context has primarily focused on the impact of our built environment on physical well-being, and the benefits of greenery on mental well-being,” MND added.
“This project aims to expand this knowledge by investigating other aspects of the built environment more holistically, and their impacts on mental well-being.”

As part of the study, a list of indicators that link the built environment to mental well-being will be developed.
MND said that these indicators could help urban planners understand how factors such as the provision of facilities, land use configuration, and the intensity of development on a piece of land may affect mental well-being.
Researchers plan to validate the study’s findings against four ongoing Singapore cohort studies: Growing Up In Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes, Singapore Preconception Study Of Long-Term Maternal And Child Outcomes, Singapore Longitudinal Early Developmental Study and Mapping Antenatal Maternal Stress.
MND said that the four studies have collected extensive data from study participants using validated questionnaires, including mental well-being indicators.
The ministry added that findings from the new study will inform how the authorities plan, design and prioritise built environment interventions to enable a healthier and more liveable environment.

The three-day World Cities Summit, held every two years in Singapore, ends on June 4.
It gathers city leaders, industry experts and others who work on urban environments, and the 2024 edition has delegates from more than 90 cities around the world.
Among its highlights was the Mayors Forum, chaired by National Development Minister Desmond Lee on June 2.
Speaking at the summit’s opening plenary on June 3, Mr Lee announced an updated Singapore Liveability Framework – a set of principles and systems that guide city planners and policymakers.
The upgraded framework is captured in a new e-publication, Building Liveable And Sustainable Cities: A Framework For The Future, which can be downloaded at go.gov.sg/clcbook-liveableframework2024. It has a new emphasis on “collaborative ecosystems”.
Such systems involve the public, the private sector and the Government, recognising that citizens have a part to play in policymaking, and in the governance of cities.
One prime example of such collaboration, said the publication, is the Forward Singapore exercise, a nationwide engagement with Singaporeans to refresh the country’s social compact and develop the national agenda for a new generation.
A series of memorandums of understanding (MOUs) will be signed during the summit.
The Singapore Land Authority (SLA) and the Singapore Management University (SMU) signed an MOU on June 3.
SLA said that its geospatial information – referring to data associated with a particular location such as aerial images and street maps – will be used in the Cooling Singapore 2.0 research project, which SMU co-leads.

DPM Heng Swee Keat (centre) touring the booths at the World Cities Summit on June 3. He said the study will “serve to better inform the way we rejuvenate, reinvent and reimagine our city-state”. PHOTO: LIANHE ZAOBAO
Among the project’s products is a Digital Urban Climate Twin of Singapore that will explore the heat effects of buildings, transport and industry.
SLA said its data, and the digital twin, will aid policymakers in Singapore in assessing effective climate adaptation solutions that can enhance the city’s climate resilience.
During a panel discussion on leveraging geospatial data to improve citizens’ quality of life, Mr Vincent Karremans, vice-mayor of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, said such data has helped his city to prioritise investments in climate adaptation.
“Due to this geospatial technology, we know exactly which neighbourhoods, which streets – even portions of streets – are the most vulnerable to heatwaves or heavy rainfall because we can put that all into a model,” he said.
“It is an instrument to determine where to invest in a city, where to put more green infrastructure, and where to expand our sewer system.”

 

[k1976]

 

[k1976]

Nation

Motorists should expect heavier traffic at Johor-Singapore crossings from Friday​

By New Straits Times
August 26, 2024 @ 9:40pm

Malaysians and Singaporeans should anticipate heavy traffic and possibly long queues at Immigration counters at both Johor-Singapore crossings for the upcoming holidays. — NSTP/NUR AISYAH MAZALAN
KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysians and Singaporeans should anticipate heavy traffic and possibly long queues at Immigration counters at both Johor-Singapore crossings for the upcoming holidays.
Singapore's immigration authority said it anticipates a surge in the number of travellers entering Malaysia through the Johor-Singapore Causeway and the Tuas Second Link during the upcoming school holidays in the city-state.

It has warned of heavy traffic at both land crossings from Friday until Sept 8.
"The authority noted that during the recent Singapore National Day long weekend, from Aug 8 to 13, a record-breaking 540,000 travellers crossed through the Woodlands and Tuas checkpoints on Aug 8 alone.


"Travellers in cars faced delays of up to three hours at immigration due to traffic congestion from Malaysia.

"Travellers are advised to prepare for longer wait times at the checkpoints and consider using cross-border bus services as an alternative," FMT reported, quoting a statement from Singapore's Immigration Authority, today.
It also urged those travelling into the city state to plan their journeys accordingly to avoid delays during these peak periods.

 

[SHIB]

Nothing to complain about. The 61% have voted for it.

They love it, basically every day. . . One can easily be spotted loitering around SBF 24/7.

 

[True Believer]

A population of 6 million residents chasing far too few goods and services has resulted in SG being the most expensive city in the world for 9 out of the past 11 years. I cannot imagine the cost of living here when the population hits 10 million. The MIW are going for economic growth at all costs regardless of the welfare of the people.

 

[k1976]

Please sit tight

 

[LaoTze]

Stinkaporeans are worthy of the collective Darwin Award Prize for voting and voting for MIWs and cronies and crassloot leechers and CECA cockroaches to tiew and kann and fuck us all

 

[LITTLEREDDOT]

 

[myfoot123]

A population of 6 million residents chasing far too few goods and services has resulted in SG being the most expensive city in the world for 9 out of the past 11 years. I cannot imagine the cost of living here when the population hits 10 million. The MIW are going for economic growth at all costs regardless of the welfare of the people.

They kept ramping up HDB, but forgot about Hospital. The pandemic has never taught them the painful lesson of shortage of hospital beds.

 

[birdie69]

They kept ramping up HDB, but forgot about Hospital. The pandemic has never taught them the painful lesson of shortage of hospital beds.

Do we have enough water for such high density population?

 

[A Singaporean]

This is a lie. It is the coolie gene Sinkies in hdb voted for a 10 million population. So shut the fuck up. Majulah PAP.

 

[laksaboy]

And reminder that their angmoh PAP porlumpar, the Polack 'Critical Spectator', argued for 15 million, then almost around the same time, Ho Ching recommended 10 million. Now her suggestion magically seems more 'reasonable' or 'acceptable'.

Not too long ago, Liu Thai Ker barked the same tune.

10m population not really a ridiculous number for S'pore to plan for: Liu Thai Ker​

JAN 11, 2022
https://www.straitstimes.com/singap...ous-number-for-spore-to-plan-for-liu-thai-ker

It's the oldest trick in the book. Allow me to introduce the Overton window to daft Sinkies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

The Overton window is an approach to identifying the ideas that define the spectrum of acceptability of governmental policies. It says politicians can act only within the acceptable range. Shifting the Overton window involves proponents of policies outside the window persuading the public to expand the window.

Those Davos globalists (and I suspect the likes of the Tavistock Institute), have certainly taught the PAP technocrats well. Can't fool me though.

 

[myfoot123]

Do we have enough water for such high density population?

They are building another seawater desalination plant in Jurong. It says a lot of their 7 million population planning.

 

[LITTLEREDDOT]

Singapore population crosses 6 million mark​

The increase was due mainly to the 5 per cent growth in the non-resident population. ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE

Shermaine Ang

Sep 25, 2024

SINGAPORE – Singapore’s total population stood at 6.04 million as at June 2024, a 2 per cent rise from June 2023, the Government’s latest Population in Brief report showed.
This is the first time the figure has crossed the six million mark.
The increase was due mainly to a 5 per cent increase in the non-resident population, which grew from 1.77 million in June 2023 to 1.86 million in June 2024, said the annual report released on Sept 24 by the National Population and Talent Division (NPTD).
The increase in non-resident workers, including work permit holders and migrant domestic workers, helped to provide much-needed services to meet Singaporeans’ social and economic needs, for instance by supporting caregiving needs, and by filling occupations that residents are typically not keen on, such as construction jobs, said the NPTD in a statement.
Residents continued to take higher-paying jobs, with employment growing in sectors such as financial and insurance services, information and communications, and professional services, it pointed out, where the high labour force participation rate remained robust and unemployment rates of residents and citizens remained very low.
Meanwhile, among citizens, there were fewer births and marriages in 2023, while the proportion of seniors continued to expand.
When it came to the non-resident population, work permit holders – semi-skilled non-professional, manager, executive and technician workers – contributed most to the increase, followed by migrant domestic workers.

The citizen population rose by 0.7 per cent from 3.61 million in June 2023 to 3.64 million in June 2024, while the permanent resident population grew by 1.2 per cent from 538,600 to 544,900 over the same period.

Mr Christopher Gee, deputy director and senior research fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), said having nearly one in three people being a non-resident was “not a shockingly high number” for most global cities, citing New York City as another example.
Today, the foreign workforce in Singapore accounts for about two-thirds of the non-resident population, while the remaining one-third comprises mainly migrant domestic workers, dependants and students, said the NPTD report.

Migrant domestic workers are excluded from the foreign workforce figures as they work in households, unlike foreign workers who contribute directly to industries such as construction, manufacturing and services.
The annualised population growth rate of 1.1 per cent over the past five years was slightly higher than the 0.8 per cent between 2014 and 2019.

This was mostly due to post-Covid-19 growth in the number of work permit holders in the construction, marine shipyard and process (CMP) sectors as companies caught up on projects that were delayed by the pandemic, said the report.
Growth was also high for foreign workers in non-CMP sectors such as retail, food and beverage, hospitality and healthcare, with an 8.8 per cent increase year on year, Mr Gee noted. “Gaps in the workforce have increasingly opened up, and there is demand for that kind of labour.”
IPS senior research fellow Gillian Koh said: “As Singaporeans, we are very aware that there is a large ramp-up in the building of homes and the MRT because we need and want these. We also know that there is also global demand for some key manufacturing and pharma activities, and we should never turn away business.”
She noted that from 2021, work permit holders and migrant domestic worker categories have made up more than half of the non-resident population, rising to 59 per cent in 2024. “These are not jobs that Singaporeans want or can fulfil in the numbers needed.”
Based on the current average growth rate, Mr Gee projected that Singapore will have a population of 6.37 million by June 2030.

This is “comfortably” below the projection of 6.5 million to 6.9 million based on a government White Paper released in 2013, he said.
“The Government put out this White Paper to articulate that it was planning for a population size of 6.9 million people, to have enough homes, public transport, infrastructure, amenities, and other things that we consider to be necessary to have a good life in Singapore.
“If the planning has been okay, then we should have enough of these facilities to accommodate the population size that we will have.”
He said that as a “modern, diverse and open” economy, Singapore will need to continue to bring in the skilled workers to ensure the Republic’s businesses continue its ties with the rest of the world.

Mr Gee said that since Singapore’s lower-skilled workers are not allowed to bring dependants, the number of this group of non-residents here is also lower compared with the likes of London and New York City.
The average numbers for new citizenships and permanent residencies granted per year over the past five years (22,400 citizenships and 32,600 permanent residencies) were slightly higher than those for the preceding five years (21,600 citizenships and 31,100 permanent residencies).
IPS senior research fellow Tan Poh Lin said non-residents, who are growing at a much faster pace than residents, will “naturally” spark concern about the pressures on public infrastructure and resources.
But they also contribute to the tax base and make Singapore’s infrastructure more fiscally sustainable to maintain and expand, she added.
“I am more concerned about the intangible private infrastructure of care,” Dr Tan said, noting that families will have to shoulder a large part of caregiving responsibilities.
“To ensure that Singaporeans continue to be competitive in the labour market, we need to be more cognisant of the resident old-age support ratio and, in general, make sure that workplaces do not penalise caregivers.”
Dr Koh said social integration of foreigners will be crucial in both work and social settings.
“We must also ensure that there are fair and safe working conditions for all, including our non-resident, migrant workers. How we manage this will convey to the world what we are like, what our values are.”

Here are four other highlights from the report:

1. Ageing citizen population​

In June 2024, 19.9 per cent of the citizen population were aged 65 and above, compared with 12.4 per cent in June 2014. The proportion of the citizen population in this age group is rising, and at a faster pace compared with the last decade. The number of citizens aged 80 and above also rose by about 67 per cent from 85,000 in 2014 to 142,000 in 2024.

2. Citizen births down​

There were 28,877 citizen births in 2023, 5.1 per cent lower than the 30,429 citizen births in 2022. The average number of births per year in the last five years (31,100) was also lower than in the preceding five years (33,000). The resident total fertility rate reached a historic low of 0.97 in 2023.

3. Fewer citizen marriages​

In 2023, there were 24,355 citizen marriages, 1.7 per cent lower than the record high of 24,767 in 2022, but higher than the 22,165 in 2019. The average number of citizen marriages per year in the last five years (22,800) was lower than in the preceding five years (24,000).

4. More transnational marriages​

Transnational marriages – those between a citizen and a non-citizen – made up 36 per cent of citizen marriages in 2023, up from 33 per cent in 2022. Apart from a dip in 2020 and 2021 due to Covid-19-related travel restrictions, the proportion of transnational marriages in the past decade has consistently been more than one-third of citizen marriages each year.
Over the past decade, non-citizen brides have got older and more educated at the point of marriage. Of the 28,877 citizen births in 2023, more than one in four were born to couples that comprised a citizen and a non-citizen.

 

[joemartini]

this Liu Thai Ker owns a architecture or construction company.
handing over to his children, grandchildren.
(go google and check)
He is propagating all these 10mil population to ensure the continue survival of his business and legacy.
If the whole system gets over crowded and stops importing and increasing the population...where will his business and grandchildren end up??

 

[k1976]

Shaft it down Sinkies' throats, or ram it up Sinkies' arse.

10m population not really a ridiculous number for S'pore to plan for: Liu Thai Ker​

Singapore had increased its population by around 4 million in the past 55 years. ST PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI

Justin Ong
Political Correspondent

Jan 11, 2022

SINGAPORE - Former chief city planner Liu Thai Ker on Tuesday (Jan 11) maintained that a population size of 10 million is "not really a ridiculous number" for Singapore to make plans to accommodate.
This is particularly so, given the city-state's needto ramp up economic growth to keep pace with neighbouring countries that are progressing faster than before.
The former chief executive officer of the Housing Board was responding to a question on whether Singapore was becoming too overcrowded, during a panel discussion that kicked off a yearly conference organised by the Institute of Policy Studies think-tank.
This is not the first time Dr Liu, who is now chairman of Morrow Architects and Planners, has floated a population figure.
A contentious topic that has provoked public uproar over the years, the 10-million figure was used by an opposition party as recently as during last year's election to suggest - falsely - that the Government plans to increase Singapore's population by bringing in foreigners.
Dr Liu, who on Tuesday reiterated that he was no longer in the Government and was speaking in his personal capacity, has clarified that the 10 million number was always a planning parameter and not a target.


He had first written about it in 2014, as a population size to plan for so that Singapore remains sustainable in the long term - a timeline he envisioned as stretching as far ahead as 2200.

The Government has said that Singapore's population is likely to be significantly below 6.9 million by 2030 - another number that drew consternation when first published as a projection in the Population White Paper of 2013.
On Tuesday, Dr Liu pointed to Singapore being located between China, India and Indonesia - three of the largest countries in the world now making tremendous progress.
His concern was that Singapore was sinking into complacency when it in fact needs an even sharper and more distinct "crisis mentality" today than it had in its early years of independence, in order to stay on par with or ahead of its Asian neighbours.
"We must be prepared for possibly faster economic growth to stand tall among them," said Dr Liu. "And to do so, we must accept population growth. And partly because of that, a few years ago, I said, 'Let's plan for 10 million people'.
He pointed out that Singapore had increased its population by around 4 million in the past 55 years.
But panel moderator and Ambassador-at-Large Chan Heng Chee, who is also a professor at the Lee Kuan Yew Centre for Innovative Cities housed within the Singapore University of Technology and Design, noted that pandemic conditions had shrunk Singapore's population by some 200,000 to 5.45 million as at June last year.
Fellow panellist George Yeo said he had some sympathy for Dr Liu's view.
"If you plan for more and we don't reach that number, then Singapore will be very spacious," the former foreign minister added. "Whereas if you plan for fewer, and because of the nature of things - not everything is within our control - the population grows more than we anticipated, then it will be very crowded."

Non non non...last time is 6.8m , now is a upgrade....jitao 10m

 

[k1976]

A population of 6 million residents chasing far too few goods and services has resulted in SG being the most expensive city in the world for 9 out of the past 11 years. I cannot imagine the cost of living here when the population hits 10 million. The MIW are going for economic growth at all costs regardless of the welfare of the people.

World Llumber 1 living standard waiting .

Simple maths
6.04m => $6 fishball noodles +9% GST
10m => $10 fisball noodles +??% GST

 

[k1976]

6.04m = $8000k 3rm flat
10m = $????k 3rm flat

Many see already underwear wet wet...Heng Ong Huat is in the air

 

[k1976]

Do we have enough water for such high density population?

Maybe even toilet paper also no enough?

BBFA cannot pang sai w/o toilet paper de woh

 

[Boliao]

You guys better wake up your idea and get the fuck out while you can. 10million population was always on their agenda and plan. You think LHL cry cry only will reverse their plan? You think get WP into GRC for one term is going scare the PAP? You guys screwed the WP, good luck and see who else is going to come and fight for the average people now.

It's not rocket science, just take the number of population in 1991 (the day LHL took office) and count forward how many Singaporeans are left every year after that. Declining birth rate, aging population dying and yet Singaporeans and PR miraculously grew to $6m.