Singapore may be the richest country in the world but the number of poor households living in the prosperous city-state has been rising in recent years. To highlight the extent of poverty in Singapore ...

Singapore, one of the richest countries in the world, has 20 billionaires and 188,000 millionaires. But curiously, the government doesn’t know the exact number of its poor households. Maybe Kishore ...

The world's wealthiest nations are moving away from a development model based on foreign aid, which is sometimes viewed by recipients as nothing more than colonialism with a humanitarian ...

It is not often that the leader of a small city-state — in this case, Singapore — gets an international reputation. But no one deserved it more than Lee Kuan Yew, the founder of Singapore as an ...

Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has said that fostering economic growth through open trade and investment is key to tackling poverty worldwide. At the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro, he also ...

As Singapore's decades-long rise in prosperity increasingly shows a widening wealth gap, this affluent city-state must do more to face up to the plight of its poor, a group of leading poverty ...

Responding to a question in a parliament session, Minister for Social and Family Development Chan Chun Sing explained why the government is not inclined to follow the lead of Hong Kong, which recently ...