By the way, in the Singapore national election in 2006, 300,000 older and lower income voters received about S$500 in their bank accounts just before the election, and they received the same amount again a year later in 2007. There is no outcry about vote-buying in Singapore. These grants advanced the prospects of the PAP and helped to ensure its permanency of rule, but no one calls these grants “vote-buying.” It seems vote buying happens only in Thailand.