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30 August 2019
Singapore has retained its position as the world’s second safest city, after Tokyo,
World’s second safest city
Friday, 30 Aug 2019
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Smooth sailing: Water taxis sailing pass the ArtScience Museum (left) with the financial district at the right in Singapore. — AFP
SINGAPORE: Singapore has retained its position as the world’s second safest city, after Tokyo, in the latest edition of the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) Safe Cities Index (SCI).
The index, which ranks 60 countries across five continents, looks at more than 50 qualitative and quantitative indicators spread across four categories of security: digital, infrastructure, health and personal.
A total of 10 new indicators were added this year, including the existence and speed of emergency services, the existence of a disaster plan and the ability to defend infrastructure against cyberattacks.
The EIU said the ability of cities to bounce back from shocks or disasters defined their “resilience”, which is increasingly a key component of urban safety.
This is the third time in three editions of the SCI – the centrepiece of a research project sponsored by NEC Corporation – that Singapore has come in second overall. The last two reports were published in 2015 and 2017.
The republic did especially well in infrastructure and personal security, coming tops in both categories.
Singapore also ranked high in terms of digital security, finishing in second place.
In terms of health security, it moved up from 13th in 2017 to eighth this year.
Naka Kondo, senior editor of the EIU and editor of the SCI 2019 report, said: “The research highlights how different types of safety are thoroughly intertwined – that it is rare to find a city with very good results in one safety pillar and lagging in others.”
Six cities in the Asia-Pacific moved into the top 10 in the index this year. Besides Tokyo, Singapore, and Osaka (third), they were Sydney (fifth), Seoul (eighth) and Melbourne (10th). Rounding out the list were Amsterdam (fourth), Toronto (sixth), Washington DC (seventh) and Copenhagen (which tied with Seoul for eighth).
Hong Kong dropped out of the top 10 and was placed at No. 20, although this had nothing to do with the ongoing protests in the territory, as the data used for the SCI was collated before the protests began. Should the protests continue, they could impact the city’s ranking in future.
A spokesman for EIU said: “If there are sustained attacks on infrastructure, an ongoing increase in political instability, civil unrest or if relations between the police and the community cannot be repaired, then it is likely that Hong Kong’s score would fall.” — The Straits Times/ANN
Read more at https://www.thestar.com.my/news/regional/2019/08/30/worlds-second-safest-city#PdgChu6Xk616Es2C.99
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