Note:
(a) In the Web, there is only a one-sentence introduction to this report: "Karishma Vaswani tells of mounting anger in Asia's richest nation."
(b) The report says, "老公的祖父母，和我的祖父母一样，在1920年代从印度移民新加坡。"
Karishma Vaswani, Jakarta - Capital of Change in a Vibrant Democracy. BBC, June 10, 2011.
(c) The report indicates, "新加坡岛的面积刚刚超过700平方公里，相当于大伦敦的一半。"
(i) 700平方公里 = 270 square miles
(ii)
(A) Singapore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singapore
(There are ongoing land reclamation projects, which have increased Singapore's land area from 581.5 km2 (224.5 sq mi) in the 1960s to 704 km2 (272 sq mi) today; it may grow by another 100 km2 (40 sq mi) by 2030)
(B) CIA World Factbook (2013) for Singapore: population 5,353,494 (July 2012 est) ; Chinese 76.8%, Malay 13.9%, Indian 7.9%, other 1.4% (2000 census)
(iii)
(A) City of London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London
(Area 607 sq mi (1,570 km2))
(B) Grater London http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_London
(an administrative area, ceremonial county; created in 1965, comprising the City of London and 32 London boroughs)
I can not find in the Web whether the areas for City of London and Greater London include waters such as rivers or lakes.
(iv) City of Boston http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston
(in the table: Area 89.63 sq mi (232.14 km2), including Land 48.43 sq mi and Water 41.21 sq mi)
(v) New York City: 304.8 square miles
(A) Sam Roberts, It’s Still a Big City, Just Not Quite So Big. New York Times, May 22, 2008 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/22/nyregion/22shrink.html
("For two decades, the city’s official directory, the Green Book, has stated definitively that the five boroughs encompass nearly 322 square miles of land. [But] Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, whose yen to precisely measure everything from poverty to traffic congestion led the planning department to recalculate the city’s land mass")
(B) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
(Area 468.5 sq mi (1,213 km2), including Land 302.6 sq mi and Water 165.8 sq mi)