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PM's one regret and greatest satisfaction in 10 years

Lee U-Wen
Published Fri, Jan 16, 2015 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

IF Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong could turn back the clock, he would have ramped up Singapore's infrastructure development by several notches to better cope with the demands of the rapid growth in the population.

"In retrospect, it is easy to say that we should have built up our infrastructure a lot faster, that we should have got more trains running, we should have built more HDB flats," he said when asked to name one regret during his 10 years at the helm.

He recalled how the government at that time was sure it was doing the right thing by pacing things out and building only when there was a nee…

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