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Re: Singapore - Economic Data & News 15 (Mar 17 - Dec 18)

PostPosted: Thu Dec 07, 2017 8:55 pm
by iam802
More tax increase coming

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Singapore’s Aging 'Time Bomb' Will Tick Louder in 2018

Next year marks an ominous turning point for Singapore’s graying population, according to research by Francis Tan, an economist at United Overseas Bank Ltd. in Singapore.

In 2018, the share of the population that’s 65 years and older will match those younger than 15 for the first time, Tan wrote in a report on Wednesday. As the elderly population starts to crowd out the youth, the “demographic time bomb” may mean changes to taxes, immigration rules, and social services, he said.

“Singapore is facing one of the toughest economic and social challenges since its independence in the form of a rapidly aging workforce and population,” Tan said.

At this rate, seniors in Singapore’s population will make up more than double the share of the youngest residents in 2030. Tan uses a compounded annual growth rate rather than adjusting for potential policy changes or alteration of trends such as fertility rates, meaning officials could still help redraw those lines, or at least make them appear less menacing, over the next decade.

With already the oldest population in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the Singapore of 2030 will probably look a lot like the demographics-embattled Japan of 2016, Tan’s figures show.

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Re: Singapore - Economic Data & News 15 (Mar 17 - Dec 18)

PostPosted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 7:42 pm
by behappyalways
Some of your rubbish is zipped away at 80km/h underground to collection points
https://mothership.sg/2017/12/hdb-high- ... -disposal/


Brothel near Swee Choon Tim Sum raided by police in full ski masks, battering rams
https://mothership.sg/2017/12/brothel-n ... id-police/


It makes sense for Singapore to raise the level of GST now
http://www.theedgemarkets.com/article/i ... el-gst-now

Re: Singapore - Economic Data & News 15 (Mar 17 - Dec 18)

PostPosted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 4:16 pm
by behappyalways
How a group of jaga kreta (car-watching) boys became the S’pore summon aunties of today
https://mothership.sg/2017/12/singapore ... aga-kreta/

Re: Singapore - Economic Data & News 15 (Mar 17 - Dec 18)

PostPosted: Wed Dec 13, 2017 10:06 am
by behappyalways
Rare photos show what early 1900s John Little department store looked like in S’pore
https://mothership.sg/2017/12/rare-phot ... hn-little/

Re: Singapore - Economic Data & News 15 (Mar 17 - Dec 18)

PostPosted: Wed Dec 20, 2017 9:48 pm
by behappyalways
89-year-old Seletar Airport built by samsui women & was the largest British air base in the Far East
https://mothership.sg/2017/12/seletar-airport-history/

Re: Singapore - Economic Data & News 15 (Mar 17 - Dec 18)

PostPosted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:30 pm
by behappyalways
Freed from S’pore prison after 9 years, local king of Ponzi scheme faces M’sia jail time
https://mothership.sg/2017/12/james-pha ... -malaysia/


World’s 1st suspended playground coming to City Square Mall with 3D net maze, slides between levels
https://mothership.sg/2017/12/suspended ... rrer-park/

Re: Singapore - Economic Data & News 15 (Mar 17 - Dec 18)

PostPosted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 9:28 pm
by behappyalways
Very last dragon kiln surviving in S’pore at Jalan Bahar near NTU gets lease extension
https://mothership.sg/2017/12/dragon-kiln-singapore/

Re: Singapore - Economic Data & News 15 (Mar 17 - Dec 18)

PostPosted: Sat Dec 30, 2017 7:48 pm
by behappyalways
S’porean walked 46km from Tuas to Pasir Ris in 14 hours for fun
https://mothership.sg/2017/12/walking-across-singapore/


About 20 original Sungei Road vendors selling their wares at Boon Lay Place until Dec. 31, 2017
https://mothership.sg/2017/12/about-20- ... c-31-2017/

Re: Singapore - Economic Data & News 15 (Mar 17 - Dec 18)

PostPosted: Wed Jan 03, 2018 8:35 pm
by behappyalways
S’pore’s indigenous people driven out of Pulau Seking in 1994. Island now a landfill.
https://mothership.sg/2018/01/spores-in ... -landfill/


Rich Chinese partied with prostitutes at this nondescript Yue Hwa Building in Chinatown
https://mothership.sg/2018/01/yue-hwa-building/

Re: Singapore - Economic Data & News 15 (Mar 17 - Dec 18)

PostPosted: Sat Jan 13, 2018 10:37 pm
by behappyalways
Najib claims that S’pore government debt higher than our GDP, but here’s why you shouldn’t panic
https://mothership.sg/2018/01/pm-najib- ... ont-panic/