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Based on the statistics collated on BTO launches since 2011, the oversubscription rates in the popular housing estates, like Bidadari, Ang Mo Kio, Kallang/Whampoa, Bedok, Bishan, Toa Payoh and Clementi, were estimated at nearly six times and above, on average.

Professor Sing Tien Foo from NUS discusses the affordability of BTO flats in Singapore

Biden also noted that the intelligence community only held low to moderate confidence in their assessments on the origin of COVID-19, and the community disagreed on whether zoonotic spill-over was more likely.

Geopolitics could be the biggest driver behind calls for investigations into the origins of COVID-19, says foreign policy expert Christian Le Miere

Even if we did compare China’s poorest areas with the standards of a “lower-middle-income” country—like Vietnam or Cameroon—the poverty line should then be set at around US$3.20. This is still about 40 per cent higher than China’s current standard and at where about 40 million people would have been considered poor in 2018.

SMU's John Donaldson assesses how successful China has been in eradicating poverty

Now, as South Korea appears to be taking steps toward the end of the pandemic, mask etiquette is loosening on the trails before anywhere else. On hikes in recent weeks, I’ve come across groups of middle-aged people all with their masks pulled down over their chins or off entirely.

Writer Steven Borowiec explains why South Koreans are finally breathing a sigh of relief in their fight against the pandemic