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Singapore

Singapore’s population hits record 6.11 million, boosted by foreign workers

Host Claressa Monteiro (left) in conversation with Minister Ong Ye Kung (right).
Podcasts

Singapore Is Ageing. Are We Ready? — Ong Ye Kung on Health, Purpose and the Road Ahead

Kwan Yi Rui (left), a third-year student from the NUS Faculty of Science, and Ng Zhi Ying (right), a third-year student from NUS Business School, recently completed a course where they befriended socially vulnerable seniors in the community.
Lifestyle
TAKING HEART

Mapletree donates S$3 million to NUS for service-learning courses to uplift 60,000 beneficiaries

Under Vers, owners of HDB flats aged 70 years and older will vote on whether the government should buy back their homes before their leases run out.
Opinion & Features
LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Vers: Consider the vulnerable elderly

This picture taken on May 5, 2025 shows Malaysia's former prime minister Mahathir Mohamad posing for a picture outside of his office in Putrajaya. Former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad is giving President Donald Trump three months before his fellow Americans force him to rethink his stringent global tariff strategy, accusing the US leader of "living in an old world". (Photo by Mohd RASFAN / AFP) / To go with 'MALAYSIA-US-POLITICS-MAHATHIR, INTERVIEW' by Isabelle LEONG and Jan HENNOP
Opinion & Features
Thinking Aloud

Living to 120 and beyond? 

The first Age Well Neighbourhoods will be in Toa Payoh and “one or two other areas with a high concentration of seniors”.
Singapore

National Day Rally: ‘Age Well Neighbourhoods’ can increase spaces, accessibility of services for seniors

By 2030, one in four residents in Singapore will be aged 65 or above, and our old-age support ratio is projected to fall to 2.7.
BT SG60Singapore

SG60: Why ageing needs a new narrative in Singapore

Elderly exercising at Toa Payoh, 4 February 2025. aging population, seniors, active ageing  
Opinion & Features
THE BROAD VIEW

How tech can close the care gap for an ageing nation with dignity

For the second half of 2025, UBS expects investors should continue to diversify even as tariff and macroeconomic risks moderate.
Companies & Markets

AI, power, and longevity to drive next decade of transformational innovation: UBS

Elderly residents having breakfast at the Perennial Alzheimer’s Care Village in Xi'an, China. The company hopes to apply the learnings to its upcoming assisted living project in Singapore
Opinion & Features
THINKING ALOUD

Assisted living in Singapore: Companies face steep costs, but innovation is still possible

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