establishing autonomous agencies (AAs) to build up autonomy and deftness in the administration of finance, other management resources and public service provision. Nowadays, most offices in the Singaporean public sector have become autonomous agencies, except the Ministry of Defense and the Internal Security Department, which are still in the public sector. Moreover, there was also privatization, with transfer of some tasks in the public sector to private agencies, elimination of unnecessary regulations, laws, steps or operational processes and application of different administrative techniques.