Singapore set for extraordinary budget: newspaper

AFP

SINGAPORE (AFP) — Singapore was set Thursday to deliver an extraordinary budget to help it confront the city-state's worst-ever recession, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in published remarks.

It is "not going to be an ordinary budget -- because this is not an ordinary year -- either in the content of the budget or its overall fiscal stance," Lee was quoted as saying in The Business Times.

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