Earthtimes.org, 19 Oct 2008, DPA
Singapore - Singapore's 2009 economic growth could be slower than the estimated 3 per cent originally expected this year, cautioned the city state's former Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong. Goh, now ranked senior minister in the government, was quick to assure that the government was looking at how to help Singaporeans overcome temporary economic hardship next year.
"The government is already thinking about what it can do to help businesses and ordinary Singaporeans - in particular lower income Singaporeans - next year," the Channel News Asia quoted Goh as saying on Saturday.
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