Sandego.net – Singapore is set to raise the annual compensation of Prime Minister Lawrence Wong by nearly 64%, increasing his pay package from S$2.2 million (US$1.7 million) to S$3.6 million (US$2.8 million). The adjustment gives Wong an additional S$1.4 million a year and reinforces Singapore’s position as the country with some of the highest-paid political leaders in the world.

Other ministers will receive pay increases of as much as 9%. It is the first broad rise in ministerial salaries in 15 years, reviving a politically sensitive debate over how a prosperous but tightly governed city-state should compensate its elected leadership.…