Many Singaporeans have never spoken to neighbours, poll finds

The poll was triggered by the discovery of the badly decomposed bodies of 82-year-old Wong Tong Seng and his daughter in their flat last week. Ngai Hong Chee, the 80-year-old wife, was in the flat as well and alive.
Neighbours had not seen the family for seven weeks. Police were finally called because of the smell from the flat.
Most of those queried feared being labeled a "busybody" if they "probed" into a neighbour's affairs, the poll was quoted by DPA as saying.
Residents of one and two-room flats said shady characters in their neighbourhoods had made them more wary.
Sociologists said Singapore is not the only country experiencing the trend of neighbours becoming increasingly isolated from one another.