Free trade minus freedom equals exploitation
Chee Soon Juan [Article first appeared on YourSDP.org]Dr Chee Soon Juan spoke at the 59th Congress of the Liberal International (LI) at Rotterdam, Netherlands on 25 April 2014. Below are excerpts of...
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Chee Soon Juan will be standing as a candidate for the SDP in the next GE. He has completely discharged his bankruptcy obligations after losing several libel suits against the PAP politicians. It has...
View ArticleDr Chee Soon Juan ready to contest at next GE
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View ArticlePress release: Labour day protest on May 1st at Hong Lim Park
Press release: Labour day protest on 1st May (Thurs) from 4 to 7pm Hong Lim Park - Protect The Singaporean Workers Dear friends from the press, Transitioning.org will be conducting our second labour...
View ArticleLee Hsien Loong: I will be promoting Tan Chuan Jin and Lawrence Wong to Full...
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View ArticleNew potential WP candidate spotted on the ground
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View ArticleActivists unable to register protests with NParks due to website "Maintenance"
Mr Tan Kin Lian said:"This is the third time that I tried to register to speak at Hong Lim Park at 4 pm on 3 May, and it failed again. After entering the full details, I get this page. When I called...
View ArticleStraits Times 1965: UMNO 'extremists' may detain Lee, alleged PAP
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View ArticleSDP May Day message: Fortunes of workers and SDP are inseparable
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View ArticleWP May Day 2014 Message: Value the contributions of mature workers
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View ArticleReform Party’s May Day Message 2014
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View ArticleSingapore People's Party – Labour Day Message 2014
Dear Workers of Singapore,Happy Labour Day!May Day is an auspicious day to celebrate and honour workers’ contributions to the nation. It is also a time to rally Singaporeans particularly the youths to...
View ArticleWhen immigration stops being the elephant in the room and becomes the great...
On April 23 the Straits Times (ST) hosted a roundtable to sit around and discuss a survey of people’s perceptions of key policies, three years after the 2011 General Election. The panelists were the...
View ArticleMND Singapore: A policy tweak to recognise the contributions of long-time...
Since October last year, HDB has stopped the practice of transferring tenancies among HDB commercial and industrial tenants.The past practice had the advantage of allowing the exit of tenants whose...
View ArticlePM Lee: Singapore at a turning point, but we are handling it well
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View ArticleGilbert Goh: Come Younger Singaporeans join us and push for a better Singapore
I always thought the first population white paper (PWP) protest held in February last year was the toughest event to organise but the recent 2nd labour day protest proved to be more difficult to...
View ArticleMy Dear Prime Minister, Singapore doesn’t belong to Foreigners!
I was first shocked to read what was reported from an INDIAN online news website that our dear Prime Minister has uttered the following words: "Singaporeans, new arrivals, people who are on permanent...
View ArticleGerald Giam's Interview with Straits Times on public transport woes
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View ArticleSDP: Why do we do this to our children?
Ten-year-old Lysher Loh climbed over the parapet on the fifth floor of her flat and jumped to her death. Two weeks before she committed suicide, she told her maid she did not want to be reincarnated as...
View ArticleGet it right for integration of Foreigners!
There was a question put up by a human rights social activist on what we are trying to achieve by raising the red flag and complain to the authorities about Filipino and Mexican shops putting up their...
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