Insight - The expat experience is turning ugly

Shatter zone: A workers doing maintenance at a Supertree structure at the Gardens by the Bay. The collapse in international travel has hit the city-state especially hard. — AFP

SOMETHING big is missing from Singapore’s picturesque and impeccably maintained highway linking downtown with Changi Airport: traffic.

The collapse in international travel has hit the city-state especially hard. Borders are shut to tourists and much of Singapore Airlines Ltd’s proud fleet is mothballed.