SINGAPORE: Singapore is unveiled a budget yesterday that seeks to chart its post-pandemic future, focusing on rebuilding finances to face long-term challenges such as rising health-care costs as the local workforce ages.
In detailing spending priorities for the year starting April 1, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong announced early in his speech a S$500mil (US$372mil or RM1.6bil) package of jobs and business support to help sectors still struggling to recover, as well as an extension of some aid programmes.
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