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Sengkang Sculpture Park in 2008. Sengkang GRC’s Ms He Ting Ru and her team worked with residents and young people to co-design improvements to the park, creating shared projects bringing diverse groups together.
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Nicholas Thomas and Justin Lee
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As Singapore’s 15th Parliament opens a “we first” society
In 1991, the Government’s White Paper on Shared Values affirmed that Singapore must place “nation before community, and society above self”.