With 5.2 million people living on a 700 sq km island, Singaporeans are feeling the pressure.
AS the pressures of life in Singapore go up, people’s tempers seem to get shorter.
Law-and-order Singapore is experiencing a rise in social friction with more people involved in quarrels and fights on its overcrowded streets.
Society is by no means tearing at the seams, but the pressure-cooker life is beginning to leave a mark on people used to the good living and in a way the Government may not have foreseen.
Many citizens prefer the Old Singapore that the first-generation leaders had shaped during the first 30 years of independence although it was poorer and smaller. Full story
