"Singapore is a progressive country"<p>Perhaps financially but not for e.g. human rights - <a href="https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/singapore" rel="nofollow">https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2015/country-chapters/singa...</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Singapore" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_Singapore</a>