{"id":474939,"date":"2026-02-12T11:11:06","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474939\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T11:11:06","slug":"highlights-singapore-budget-2026-announcements-by-prime-minister-lawrence-wong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/474939\/","title":{"rendered":"Highlights: Singapore Budget 2026 announcements by Prime Minister Lawrence Wong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SINGAPORE: Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong delivered Singapore&#8217;s 2026 Budget on Thursday (Feb 12).<\/p>\n<p>It was his second Budget as prime minister and the first for this new term of government.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from payouts, which, as always, were highly anticipated by many, Mr Wong also outlined Singapore&#8217;s updated strategy for tackling the double-edged sword of artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SINGAPORE: Prime Minister and Finance Minister Lawrence Wong delivered Singapore&#8217;s 2026 Budget on Thursday (Feb 12). It was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":474940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,114523,99,164,31994],"class_list":{"0":"post-474939","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-budget-2026","11":"tag-business","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-lawrence-wong"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=474939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/474939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=474939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=474939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=474939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}