SINGAPORE: (Sep 10) Singapore’s former prime minister Lee Hsien Loong has urged citizens of the city-state to resist “external forces” and maintain a strong national identity, according to a media report on Wednesday.

During a forum on Tuesday, the senior minister said that Singapore is going to be pulled in very different directions by “powerful external forces”, The Straits Times newspaper quoted him as saying.

He was responding to a question about whether he viewed globalisation or domestic fault lines as the greater challenge to a sense of national identity.

Source: PTI News

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