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Hougang’s residents continue to resist PAP’s “carrots”

Despite the strong efforts put up by PAP's candidate Desmond Choo in "dishing out carrots" to Hougang's residents, he could only manage to obtain a vote swing of 2.7%. In GE last year, he obtained 35.2%. In today's (26 May) by-election result, he managed to improve by 2.7% to reach 37.9%. Since Mr Yaw Shin Leong was expelled...

Hougang by-election final result: WP 62.1%, PAP 37.9%

After a furious 9 days of campaigning by both Worker's Party's (WP) Png Eng Huat and People's Action Party's (PAP) Desmond Choo, the Hougang by-election result is finally known: WP won by 62.1%. Detail result is as follows: Votes Percentage WP 13,447 62.1% PAP 8,210 37.9% Total vote cast 21,657 100.0% Hougang...

PRC bus driver helps PRC passenger get supermarket trolley on board the bus

(Photo Stomp) A netizen reported on STOMP that a bus driver had allowed a passenger to bring a supermarket trolley onto a Comfort Delgro shuttle bus. The bus driver even went to help the passenger to get the trolley on board. This incident happened last Wed (16 May) at about 8pm. The netizen, by the name of Leticia, was annoyed,...