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Singapore Ministers Face Questions Over Rentals

No impropriety found, but public is angered

Our Correspondent
Jul 04, 2023
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Singapore’s austere, puritan government has run into a vexing political problem that has caught the public zeitgeist and won’t seem to die down. In May, it became known that Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam and Foreign Affairs Minister Vivian Balakrishnan are living in magnificent colonial-era bungalows on exclusive Ridout Road which are owned …

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