Editing Matchmaking (section)

===In Asia===
In [[Singapore]], the [[Social Development Unit]] (SDU), run by the [[city-state]]'s [[government]], offers a combination of professional counsel and dating system technology, like many commercial dating services.  Thus the role of the matchmaker has become institutionalized, as a [[bureaucrat]], and every citizen in Singapore has access to some subset of the matchmaking services that were once reserved for [[royal family|royalty]] or [[upper class]]es.{{Citation needed|date=July 2016}}

As of July 2023, there were 50 Iranian dating agencies according to Ministry of Islamic Culture and Guidance.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.irna.ir/amp/85130591/ | title=معاون سازمان تبلیغات اسلامی: ۵۰ مجموعه همسان‌گزینی مجوز فعالیت گرفتند - ایرنا }}</ref>