Singapore's Foreign Minister K. Shanmugam of the ruling People's Action Party speaks with residents during a visit to a hawker centre in Singapore September 3, 2015. REUTERS/Edgar Su
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - At breakfast time one day last week, Singapore government minister K. Shanmugam dropped in to a bustling food court to greet voters, listen to their grumbles and urge them to back the People's Action Party (PAP) in this Friday's general election.
There was a burst of applause from a table of tea-drinking men, old ladies looked up smilingly from bowls of noodle soup, and one of the sharpest complaints he heard was from a resident about pigeons roosting outside her house.
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