When the tight-fisted government gives away anything resembling free money, people here sit up.
In an effort to encourage 75,000 singles to wed, it is subsidising 90% of their dating costs worth some S$500 (RM1,166) each.
The state’s matchmakers, who began operation in 1984, are doing this for a crucial objective – to raise matrimonial rates.
At the same time, a government campaign will be launched to get singles between 20 and 35 years to actively expand their social circle to find life partners, even using a dating agency.
This follows revelation that a disturbingly high proportion of young men and women in Singapore are staying out of wedlock.
That's rather sad, don't you think. To have a government to spend such money for things to that should have handled by the individuals themselves.
