We will use your email address only for sending you newsletters. Please see our Privacy Notice for details of your data protection rights. Rishi Sunak has warned that “hardship lies ahead”, but insisted that no-one will be left “without hope” as he announced an emergency package of measures to cope with the economic impact of […]
Downing Street has resisted calls for Boris Johnson to apologise for claiming some care workers “didn’t really follow the procedures” during the coronavirus outbreak. The comments were branded “a real slap in the face” and “clumsy and cowardly” by medics and campaigners – and the prime minister is facing calls to retract them. Number 10 […]
SINGAPORE – An “urban myth” that usually circulates during election season is that productivity in Singapore has stagnated, said Senior Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam in a live talk show yesterday (July 7). In fact, Singapore has achieved more than it expected, he said, as median incomes and productivity have both risen by one-third in the last […]
In 1984, just days before he was elected and began his political journey, which led to him becoming Singapore’s third Prime Minister, Mr Lee Hsien Loong stood on a stage at Fullerton Square with a message for young Singaporeans. “It’s great to be young, youths do not have to be sane, sober and subdued. You […]
SINGAPORE – All political parties were given sufficient notice for the constituency political broadcasts and no request was made to record the broadcast at a separate location, the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) said on Monday (July 6). The authority was responding to the Reform Party (RP), which said the five candidates from its Ang […]
Forty-seven people – including those suspected to have been involved in the deaths of a Saudi journalist and a Russian auditor – have been included on a new UK sanctions list. Under a new UK-only regime, those individuals are the first to have been designated for sanctions such as travel bans and asset freezes. They […]
SINGAPORE – Singapore is in a moment of danger and alarm but opposition parties are talking as though the Covid-19 pandemic does not exist and the country can keep to its old ways, said Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. The opposition, in fact, has shown no recognition that the country is facing the “crisis of […]
SINGAPORE – The PAP has called on the Workers’ Party to make its stand clear on Facebook posts by its candidate in Sengkang GRC, Ms Raeesah Khan. In a statement on Monday (July 6), the ruling party noted that Ms Raeesah had “admitted to making highly derogatory statements about Chinese and Christians”. “Why does the WP […]
Amid a wave of retrenchments due to the Covid-19 pandemic, political parties crossed swords on the Government’s foreign worker policy and free trade agreements such as the India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (Ceca). During a televised live debate on Wednesday, the Progress Singapore Party’s (PSP) Mr Francis Yuen, who is leading PSP’s four-person team in […]
As Singapore crossed the halfway mark of an acrimonious election campaign yesterday, party leaders on both sides of the political divide said it was time to shift the focus of the campaign to issues that were critical to the nation’s future. This meant dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic and its impact on workers and the […]