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Deputy Speaker Charles Chong During the Parliament debate yesterday (7 Jul), NMP Euegne Tan who is also a constitutional and administrative law professor in SMU, noticed twice that there were not enough MPs present in the House to form a quorum needed to pass Bills. A quorum is the minimum number of members necessary to conduct... 

Minister of Manpower, Mr Tan Chuan-Jin Responding to the Committee of Inquiry's (COI) recently-released report on the Little India riot in Parliament today (7 Jul), Manpower Minister Tan Chuan Jin spoke about the need to manage the number of foreign workers in Singapore. He said that even the government undertakes to more effectively... 

CLOSED: Lei Garden's Orchard Road outlet, which opened in 1989, ceased operations on 1 Jul 2014, because it could not find enough workers to run it. (Photo: LIANHE ZAOBAO) SPH published an article last week ("Labour crunch takes a bite of Lei Garden", MyPaper, 2 Jul) highlighting that the current foreign labour restrictions...