singapore afp - singapore plans to raise the mandatory retirement age from 60 to 67 to reduce its dependence on foreign workers , Deputy Premier Lee Hsien Loong said recently . "We are short of workers" and it is better for singaporeans to work longer than for us to rely on foreign workers, Lee told a conference of the national trades union congress (ntuc) the government's long term aim is to raise the retirement age to 67 he added. More than 300,000 foreign workers mostly from Southeast and South asia work in singapore which has only three million people.