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Who elected these clowns?
Mar. 8 | Newsflash: Gopalan Nair, who yesterday claimed that he had received information that MM Lee Kuan Yew had suffered a heart attack, has now admitted on his blog that “the hoax was deliberately written by me” and “(i)n fact I don’t...
Budget debate statistics: Uniquely Singapore?
Mar. 7 | By Leong Sze Hian According to the article “Parliament: Transformation budget for future” published in My Paper on 5 March, the Finance Minister was quoted as having rebutted opposition MP Low Thia Khiang’s (Hougang) claim that the Government...
Lim Swee Say, the consummate joker
Mar. 6 | By the author of Singapore Recalcitrant Can you believe your ears when the honourable Mr. Lim Swee Say, minister and secretary-general of the NTUC, said that he was like the little frog in the unheard of fable “kingdom of frogs” that he was...
Sylvia Lim on GRCs
Mar. 6 | “Group Representation Constituencies can be chopped and changed; Member Constituencies can be created and dissolved with a stroke of a pen.” WP Chairman Sylvia Lim, in parliament
Malay homelessness – who was the quicker finger-pointer?
Mar. 6 | By Joshua Chiang Imran sold his flat for a profit. With the money, he rented a bungalow in Johor Bahru and even bought a car. Two years later, his money was spent, and he was back in Singapore, homeless. Imran could be what Senior Parliamentary Secretary...
Budget should be more inclusive, change workplace culture to boost productivity, NMP says
Mar. 5 | By Wong Chun Han Singapore’s Budget 2010 fails to address concerns of lower-income Singaporeans, while cultural and societal attitudes need to be adjusted for the productivity drive to work, Nominated Member of Parliament Viswa Sadasivan said Tuesday. “The...
Vivian Balakrishnan on protecting homeless children
Mar. 3 | “I have insisted that (to) anyone with children. The children must be put in a proper home; they must continue to go to school. They must continue to get access to good food, good hygiene. And if any family has difficulty providing these things...
Low Thia Khiang: Low productivity not workers’ fault
Mar. 3 | By Gerald Giam Workers’ Party chief Low Thia Khiang has slammed the PAP government for seemingly suggesting that Singaporean workers have only themselves to blame for their low incomes, because of their low productivity and skills. He said it was easy...
Low Thia Khiang on low wages
Mar. 3 | “How long more must our low-wage workers wait to enjoy a first-world pay? Must they wait until our productivity reach two to three per cent?” Mr Low Thia Khiang, in parliament
Copenhagen: failure or success
Jan. 11 | ECO Singapore Assoc Prof Pauline Tay-Straughan had the following questions brought up to the Minister of Environment and Water Resources Dr Yacoob Ibrahim and the Parliament over the weekend. Response is to be expected at the Parliament session on the...
Singapore’s security and evolving the political system
May. 28 | H1N1 Flu Update: Singapore confirms 3 more H1N1 flu cases. Not local transmissions. Confirmed cases returned from the U.S Worker’s Party NCMP Sylvia Lim addresses in a parliamentary speech the incoming electorial changes. At this late stage...
Don’t turn my country into an administrative state
May. 27 | Breaking News: Singapore confirms first case of H1N1, Influenza A. She is a 22-year old woman. She was in New York from May 14 to 24. She arrived in Singapore on 26 May and her GP sent her to the hospital on the same day. Gerald Giam / Senior Writer I...
President’s Address – Low Thia Khiang’s Parliamentary Speech
May. 26 | Part One (In Chinese): Part Two:
President’s Address: Regurgitating only the existing priorities
May. 19 | TOC Current Affairs Desk When the session of the 11th parliament was prorogued on 13 April 2009, at the end of the day’s sitting, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said that the government has regularly prorogued Parliament midway through the term. This...
Stand up and be counted
Apr. 18 | Evaluating two decades of the Nominated MP scheme The concept of nominated MPs (NMP), or non-elected MPs as it was known back then, was first proposed in 1989 by then Trade and Industry Minister Lee Hsien Loong to provide some sort of balance to the ruling...
HOTA – Four MPs abstained and one said no
Mar. 25 | When the final vote on the amendments to the Human Organ Transplant Act (Hota) was taken, four MPs abstained and one said ‘no’. The four were Madam Halimah Yacob (Jurong GRC), Ms Denise Phua (Jalan Besar GRC), opposition Hougang MP Low Thia...
Home Affairs Minister to table Public Order Bill in Parliament
Mar. 21 | When Parliament sits on Monday, Home Affairs Minister, Wong Kan Seng, will table the Public Order Bill. The law could give the police powers to prevent protesters from gathering at places like Parliament House and the Istana, and to compel them to ‘move...
