When Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced a new scheme to redevelop old Housing Board flats, a friend texted me this message: "A U-turn looking straight!?"
He had called it an about-turn because the Government had given the impression it would not extend the 99-year leases of HDB flats when they reach the end of their leases.
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