US$1.3b for voters: Is it boodle?
Depending of how one actually looks at it, Singapore authorities would have distributed some US1.3 billion to all its citizens by polling day next Saturday. The total sum was promised in a parliamentary debate this year to help offset the ‘pain’ caused by persistently, high cost of living. The amount of monies to be distributed...
Singapore’s rulers fighting like never before
It was something that one could hardly have imagined. For the first time, Singapore’s ruling Peoples’ Action Party (PAP) is seeing the fight of its life in the ongoing general election. At least that is what the general ground consensus appears to be or if the size of the people attending rallies held by political opposition...
Tan Jee Say: ‘Government has lost its way’
He counts Mr Lim Boon Heng as a "good friend" but that did not stop former Civil Service high-flier and new Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) candidate Tan Jee Say from expressing his disappointment with Mr Lim. The retired minister, among some in the Cabinet, had initially objected to casinos here but relented because of the...
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