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Budget to help industries, create good jobs: Heng Swee Keat

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Published Wed, Feb 6, 2019 · 09:50 PM

    Singapore

    THE upcoming Budget will include a focus on keeping Singapore safe and secure and ensuring its industries can continue to transform and create good jobs for workers, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat said on Tuesday.

    This includes "enabling our workers to learn new skills to upgrade, in particular enabling our companies to build deep capabilities so that they can stand to be more competitive in the coming years", he said.

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