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SINGAPORE: A year-long public engagement exercise reviewing Singapore’s long-term land use needs and strategies was launched on Saturday (Jul 17) by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA).
The review of the country’s long-term land use plan, which guides development over the next 50 years and beyond, aims to “safeguard land for a quality living environment, based on evolving trends and changing demands”, said the URA.
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Such reviews take place every 10 years, with the last review held in 2011.
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SINGAPORE, July 12 At the Istana’s banquet hall three months ago, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, flanked by Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat and other fourth-generation People’s Action Party (PAP) leaders, delivered the bombshell news that Heng, 60, would step aside for a younger person to lead the 4G team.
The unprecedented situation on April 8 of the PM-designate unexpectedly bowing out of contention was a “setback” for the party’s succession plans, as the 4G PAP ministers collectively said in a statement then.
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Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh said yesterday that his Workers Party aims to remove the Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) one day, but not before Singapore reaches a state of being race-neutral, when such initiatives will no longer be needed.
He was speaking towards the end of a 30-minute debate with National Development Minister Desmond Lee on the policy, which sets quotas for flats owned by each racial group in a block or precinct.
Their exchange, which saw question time in Parliament extended by more than an hour, also drew comments from Leader of the House Indranee Rajah and later, Senior Minister Teo Chee Hean.
National Development Minister Desmond Lee explained and defended the Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) in housing in Parliament on July 5, citing it as one of Singapore s key policy to foster interaction between people of different ethnicities and promote racial harmony.
Answering questions on the EIP submitted by PAP Members of Parliament Chong Kee Hiong and Cheryl Chan, Lee started with a history lesson of how the EIP came to be.
The British segregated communities by race when they were in power.
Upon independence, the government did not want segregation, nor a melting-pot ideal where the different races were forced to blend or conform to a new culture.