City-state’s culture minister says grant given to pop icon ‘not anywhere as high as speculated’.
Singapore has downplayed the size of a grant it paid Taylor Swift after the city-state’s efforts to lure the pop icon led to complaints from regional neighbours.
Singapore’s Culture Minister Edwin Tong said on Monday that speculation about the size of the grant was “not accurate”.
“I can say that it is not accurate and not anywhere as high as speculated, but due to business confidentiality, we cannot reveal the specific size and conditions of the grant,” Tong told Parliament in response to questions from lawmakers.
Tong said the government was also confident that the economic benefits of Swift’s six concert dates in the city would be “significant and outweigh the size of the grant”.
Tong’s remarks come after Thailand’s Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin last month…
