SINGAPORE: Former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has
expressed concerns over Singapore's low fertility
rate.
He was speaking in Mandarin and English at the
Tanjong Pagar-Tiong Bahru National Day celebration dinner on
Saturday.
Mr Lee said Singapore's birth rates have been
steadily declining.
He stressed that Singaporeans are not reproducing themselves.
"If we go on like that, this place will fold up, because
there'll be no original citizens left to form the majority, and we
cannot have new citizens, new PRs to settle our social ethos, our
social spirit, our social norms. So my message is a simple one. The
answer is very difficult but the problems, if we don't find the
answers, are enormous," said Mr Lee.
