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About six in every 10 Singaporeans and permanent residents think drug traffickers should be sentenced to death. A study commissioned by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and conducted by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) found that 61.5 per cent of respondents agreed the death penalty should be mandatory for anyone convicted of intentionally trafficking a substantial amount of...

On 19 Oct, MHA released the results of three studies that showed over 70% of Singaporeans support the death penalty for serious crimes.

More than seven in 10 people in S'pore support death penalty for crimes such as murder, use of firearms and drug trafficking. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Singapore News - About six in every 10 Singaporeans and permanent residents think drug traffickers should be sentenced to death. A study commissioned by the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and conducted by the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS) found that 61.5 per cent of respondents agreed... Read more at www.tnp.sg

(Archived document, may contain errors)   January 31,1992 HOW THE POOR REALLY LIVE LESSONS FOR WEL,FARE IUWORM INTRODUCTION Each yecli for the past ~rr?~~a the united states Census ~llieau has npar~d that at least 30 million Americans live in poverty. For odmy Americans, the word"p0ver ty" suggests destitutiun, and the idea ofwbspmd and unremitting poverty in aland ofprospuity is of course deeply dismssing.The visiun is one of over 10 percent ofthe entire populatian being hungry and malnourish ed, living in over-wwdcd, poorly heated, filthy apartments.