https://www.scmp.com/rss/505778/feed Sudhir is the author of Floating on a Malayan Breeze: Travels in Malaysia and Singapore and co-author of Hard Choices: Challenging the Singapore Consensus. He is currently working on a book about China and India. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The novel coronavirus disease has shown an ability to repeatedly surprise experts around the world, rubbishing suggestions that any society is really in control of it. Nowhere is this clearer than in Singapore. In a matter of weeks, headlines have gone from “gold standard” to “independent Singapore’s biggest humanitarian crisis”. Some 200,000 migrant workers are confined to packed dormitories the BBC calls “breeding grounds for the virus”. The tiny city state now has more confirmed cases – over... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3082733/coronavirus-electioneering-blame-singapores-teetering-pandemic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/opinion/article/3082733/coronavirus-electioneering-blame-singapores-teetering-pandemic?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 05 May 2020 01:00:08 +0000