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My top wishes for 2025
The Straits Times
|December 27, 2024
Do more to tackle low birth rate, maintain regional ties and protect environment
I suggest that in 2025 we should devote more efforts to tackle three essential issues that are vital to our long-term survival and prosperity.
First, tackle the low birth rate: Singapore's total fertility rate has sunk below the population replacement rate, despite billions being spent to boost procreation.
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