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Future Singapore to be more than just about economics: Halimah
Published Thu, May 19, 2016 · 09:50 PM
Singapore
THE Singapore of the future, 50 years from now, will be defined much more in social terms than economic ones, said Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob on Thursday.
"Economic vibrancy is important, but life has to be more than economics, and countries have to be more than GDP (gross domestic product)," she told some 280 people at the opening of the inaugural Honour International Symposium.
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