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PN Balji
PN Balji
P N Balji is a veteran journalist in Singapore. He is also the author of the book, Reluctant Editor: The Singapore Media as Seen Through the Eyes of a Veteran Newspaper Journalist

Policymaking has become reactive amid efforts to enforce stay-at-home rules, as older Singaporeans especially go about their daily lives behaving as though the killer virus will not touch them.

Singapore’s clear-headed approach to Covid-19 has earned it praise, but it’s still heading towards a tipping point. The former leader may have acted differently.

Singapore and Hong Kong face a demographic nightmare so similar that it makes you wonder who has a better chance to dictate a destiny with fewer upheavals. The problem is a familiar one: citizens living longer and having fewer babies.

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