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MP Lee Bee Wah In a sign that private homes are increasingly out of reach to middle-income Singaporeans, Chairman of the Government Parliamentary Committee (GPC) for National Development, Lee Bee Wah, has called for the qualifying income ceiling to be raised to allow more people to buy HDB flats. Ms Lee acknowledged that more... 

Middle-income families in Singapore continued to feel the squeeze last year, according to the figures from Department of Statistics' (DOS) latest annual Key Household Income Trends survey. Wages for households in the middle 60 per cent of income earners here rose an average of less than 5 per cent last year from 2013, after... 

Yesterday (21 Feb), the PMO issued a statement stating that former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has been hospitalised for severe pneumonia ('Lee Kuan Yew on mechanical ventilation in ICU'). The statement also said that his condition has since stabilised. He was admitted to SGH on 5 Feb, some 2 weeks ago. PM Lee Hsien Loong...