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How Singapore's government-run dating service works

Singapore runs a government-backed dating service designed to encourage citizens to meet and form relationships, part of the state's broader efforts to address falling marriage and birth rates. An explainer on FirstDate sets out how the service operates, and readers are debating whether it is sensible social policy or an unusual degree of state involvement in private life.

Why now: People are discussing it because state-organised matchmaking is an unusual and debated response to declining birth rates.

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