{"id":231604,"date":"2026-06-09T05:54:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:54:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231604"},"modified":"2026-06-09T05:54:39","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T05:54:39","slug":"singapore-must-uphold-virtuous-cycle-of-good-policy-and-politics-amid-global-strain-sm-lee-singapore-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=231604","title":{"rendered":"Singapore must uphold &#8216;virtuous cycle&#8217; of good policy and politics amid global strain: SM Lee, Singapore News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good policies do not emerge on their own and require a strong public service working closely with political leaders, said Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Speaking at the Administrative Service Dinner 2026 on Tuesday (April 21) at Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre, SM Lee said a high-quality public service is needed to develop<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.asiaone.com\/singapore\/administrative-service-civil-servants-good-policy-politics-lee-hsien-loong\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good policies do not emerge on their own and require a strong public service working<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231604-singapore-must-uphold-virtuous-cycle-of-good-policy-and-politics-amid-global-strain-sm-lee6a27aab031715.jpg",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231604-singapore-must-uphold-virtuous-cycle-of-good-policy-and-politics-amid-global-strain-sm-lee6a27aab031715-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231604-singapore-must-uphold-virtuous-cycle-of-good-policy-and-politics-amid-global-strain-sm-lee6a27aab031715-300x158.jpg",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231604-singapore-must-uphold-virtuous-cycle-of-good-policy-and-politics-amid-global-strain-sm-lee6a27aab031715-768x403.jpg",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231604-singapore-must-uphold-virtuous-cycle-of-good-policy-and-politics-amid-global-strain-sm-lee6a27aab031715-1024x538.jpg",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231604-singapore-must-uphold-virtuous-cycle-of-good-policy-and-politics-amid-global-strain-sm-lee6a27aab031715.jpg",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231604-singapore-must-uphold-virtuous-cycle-of-good-policy-and-politics-amid-global-strain-sm-lee6a27aab031715.jpg",1200,630,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231604-singapore-must-uphold-virtuous-cycle-of-good-policy-and-politics-amid-global-strain-sm-lee6a27aab031715-1024x538.jpg",1024,538,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231604-singapore-must-uphold-virtuous-cycle-of-good-policy-and-politics-amid-global-strain-sm-lee6a27aab031715-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/231604-singapore-must-uphold-virtuous-cycle-of-good-policy-and-politics-amid-global-strain-sm-lee6a27aab031715-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=231604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/231605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=231604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=231604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=231604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}