Singapore – On Saturday night, when celebrating the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of Singapore, a huge fireworks will be published in the fantastic sky of the city.
Numerous skyscrapers and future buildings are a tribute to the remarkable development of the country after the separation of Malaysia on 65 in 65.
It is the highest rate of per capita wealth in the world with a small Southeast Asian state, with a population of only six million. Its advanced economy also attracts workers around the world.
The financial hub is notorious for its stability, high quality standard of living, forward-thinking approach and its centralized stewardship.
This weekend Singapore has achieved some success, once the flags down and the SG 60 goods were removed from the shelf, the island-country will return to work and start thinking about its future.
Plans are already underway in the planning of Singapore, the Marina Bay Sands-2029 is ready to hold a new fourth tower of hotel rooms, while a 15,000-seat house will also be created at that place.
This year, the fifth terminal will be available at the Chhang International Airport, which is the best place in the world this year.
The residents of the “Singh City” are clearly a lot of curiosity, but there may be some pits in the next road.
Al Jazira is taking a look at some of the challenges that Singapore face in the next year and how they can be handled.
Climate change
As a solid island, sitting in the north of the equator, Singapore is especially insecure to the threat of changing climate. Former Prime Minister of the country Lee Hersian Lung described the subject of “life and death”.
Increasing sea and increased rainfall can cause floods, the most common events occur due to the extreme climate.
The city-state has so far interrupted the weather in the Weather weather, but the government is preparing for the worst.
The horrific estimates that the water around Singapore can grow up to 2100 meters (2.5 feet) can increase the level of rising levels of the sea.
To resist the threat, plans to construct three artificial islands on the east coast of the country. The recovered land will be connected to this area by recruiting gates and will serve as a barrier to sitting more than the main land.
Benjamin Horton, a former director of the Prithvi Observatory of Singapore, said the country could stop if the catastrophic rainfall combined with high tide.
Horton said, “If there is a flood of many infrastructure in Singapore, closing the MRTS (collective rapid transition), closing the emergency route, flooded the power station and the electricity went down -” Horton said.
Already, the Sweetling Southeast Asian financial hub will face a very hot situation.
At the end of the century, the daily average temperature in the end of the century can increase to degrees degrees Celsius (degrees degree).
Horton, a dean of the School of Energy and Environment at Hong Kong’s City University, said that this could affect the country’s economic productivity.
He said, “Singapore is always developing and depends on the migrant workers who work out of the day. The result of climate change will be significant,” he said.
Nevertheless, Singapore, Horon said, “How do you adapt to climate change and have the ability to take the lead in protecting coastal protection.
Demographic time bomb
Singapore’s population is increasing at a rapid rate.
By 2030, it is estimated that almost one of the four citizens will be 65 and older.
Born today, the life expectancy of Singapore is less than 84 years, residents benefit from high quality life and world -class health care system.
But this demographic shift will challenge the city-state in the next six decades.
If the population of old age is essentially more investment in the medical field, the workers of the country face the shortage of young workers.
“The resulting stress will not only test the flexibility of healthcare institutions but also will significantly emotional, physical and financial pressure on family cars,” said Fellow Chuan de Fu of Singapore’s National University (NUS).
Officials are planning to expand and strengthen healthcare facilities, but they are urging citizens to choose a better lifestyle to stay healthy for longer. New marketing campaigns regularly encourage health check -up, allow early intervention, while new technology is also being used.
“AI-trained tools are being developed to support mental welfare, to find out early signs of clinical breakdown and help with diagnosis and disease management,” Fu told Al Jazira.
Low baby
In addition to living for a long time, Like many advanced Asian economies – there are fewer babies in the country’s population crisis.
The breeding rate, which a woman has calculated the average number of children in her life, for the first time in 2023, has shown down to 1.0 and showed low growth sign.
That figure is much lower than Japan’s 1.15 breeding rate. This week, Japan recorded the 16th year of the population with almost a million deaths in 2024.
Kalpana Vignehasa, a senior research colleague in the policy studies of the NUS, said that the Singapore government is trying to revert to the incident of birth.
“It is time for parents to take extensive actions to take extensive actions to perform less expensive, less stressful and most importantly, very valuable and community supported activities,” Vignehasa said.
An unstable world
The Singapore Foreign Policy is famous for its neutral approach, balanced with strong relations between China and the United States.
But with the increasing number of stresses in the world’s two largest cosmos, Lion City’s neutrality can be challenged.
The possibility of any major in the direction of Washington or Beijing will be subtle, ”said Lan Lan Chong, senior colleague of S Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
He said that the situation arose during the disease of the Covid partner when the Washington Asian economy was not coming.
Chong said, “Almost all the southeastern Asia, including Singapore, leaned for financial support without declaring Beijing,” Chong said.
US President Donald Trump’s punitive rate policy has also created garbage in the Southeast Asian Business Hub, which is more dependent on global trade.
Despite the danger of Washington’s rising protective policies, Chonga believes that the Singapore storm is ready to climate after signing a trade agreement in 2020.
Regional consensus financial partnerships were mainly agreed between the Southeast Asian countries, as well as China, Japan and South Korea.
Chong said, “This is a big insurance against any comprehensive global trade shutdown.
Stability at home
While the international view is even more annoying, the domestic political appearance of Singapore has been set for more stability in the coming years.
The ruling People’s Authority (PAP) is in power because the country was created and no signs of losing control.
In the May elections, the PAP, led by the new Prime Minister Lawrence Wong, got ten seats in Parliament.
In the near future, the country’s leaders are likely to remain the same, while the policy studies of the Social Lab Institute of Policy Studies Social Lab, TO K Ki, said that Singapore residents will soon want a different style of politics, which is more open and more involved.
She said, “They are favorable to the exchange of discussions and votes,” she said.
She added, “There is also a growing trend where free discussions with democratic exchange of more democratic ideas are a priority.”
