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The Morning-After Pill The voters of Hougang have spoken, and they have spoken not only for themselves but for the whole of Singapore. However the PAP would like to position the by-election, they cannot escape the fact that a large percentage of Singaporeans shares in the joy of the Hougang electorate. The PAP is the ruling... 

Even long before the Hougang by-election was called, it was a foregone conclusion that the PAP would be defeated and could be by a bigger margin than in the General Election (GE) in May 2011. And so the PAP candidate Desmond Choo went into the fray as something of an underdog. He had some of the PAP big guns, prominent among... 

(Bloomberg, 27 May) - Singapore’s ruling party lost a by- election in the opposition-controlled northeastern Hougang district, failing to prove it can recoup support after winning last year’s national vote with the smallest ever margin. Png Eng Huat, a 50-year-old businessman from the Workers’ Party, yesterday defeated...