Public order and good governance are “key" lessons Singapore can learn from the protests in different parts of the world including in Hong Kong, Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam told lawmakers, state broadcaster, Channel News Asia reports. Speaking in Parliament on Monday during the committee of supply debate on Singapore's approach to public order, he said: “Some of them [protesters] have engaged in extremely violent, disruptive behavior, with the whole purpose of crippling the government. The first "key lesson" from this for Singapore is the approach to maintaining public order, Shanmugam said. The second lesson, Shanmugam said, is that public order is not only about law and order, but also good governance. "If you seek to deal with protests and your approach to protests is simply to have tough laws and enforce them, it's not going to work because underlying it is what's your social order?"

Source: The Standard March 03, 2020 08:48 UTC