As Singapore society becomes more sensitive to equity concerns, people are keenly feeling the hard edges of a hyper-competitive free market system.
Nowhere is this clearer than in the sale of state land via competitive tenders for commercial and private residential use. Even religious groups constructing places of worship had to take part in competitive bidding for land.
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