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Supporters hail Narendra Modi's emphatic victory in Indian elections
India's incoming prime minister Narendra Modi has been greeted by hundreds of jubilant supporters as he arrived in New Delhi from his home state of Gujarat.The day after leading the Bharatiya Janata...
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Singapore People's Party: How can we develop true empathy?
(SPP’s response to the President’s Address, 16 May 2014)Empathy in a competitive global environmentLast night, President Tony Tan delivered his address in opening the second session of the current...
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SDP: Scrap PSLE, delay streaming and foster creativity
Singapore DemocratsThe SDP launched our alternative education policy paper yesterday presenting the many issues and challenges that our present education system faced and spelling out alternative ideas...
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SPP response to President's Address in Parliament
How can we develop true empathy? (SPP's response to the President's Address, 16 May 2014) Empathy in a competitive global environmentLast night, President Tony Tan delivered his address in opening the...
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President Tony Tan is related to Supreme Leader Lee Kuan Yew
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Nicole Seah: Singapore National Myths
Singaporean national myths: We will never be good enough. if you compare us to the best of our neighbours. We have it too good. if you compare us to the worse of our neighbours. Politics is either...
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MP Zainudin: Loud and demanding netizens often just stoke hatred and distrust
MP for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC Zainudin Nordin, told parliament that the government needs to explain its policies better and mount "robust challenges" to the untruths spread online.He had explained that...
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PM Lee: We are opening up more "ladders of opportunity"
Talking in Parliament on Wednesday, PM Lee Hsien Loong said that the government is working to improve education at all levels to create "ladders of opportunity".He said that they want to make it...
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PAP MP Hri Kumar: A 'Mature Democracy' is a waste of money and time
Parliamentary Speech by PAP MP Hri KumarDelivered on 28 May 2014.I had prepared a speech on constructive politics, but so much has been said about it this week, that I have had to re-write most of it....
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LHL on teachers leaving profession: "We knew we had a problem"
Singapore Democrats | YourSDP.orgAt the recently held launch of our education policy paper, a teacher said that she had lost faith in our education system and that she was leaving the profession. She...
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NSP Statement on the new Bus Contracting Model Scheme
The National Solidarity Party (NSP) refers to the Transport Minister's announcement on 21 May 2014 captioned 'Transition to a Government Contracting Model for the Public Bus Industry'. This...
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PAP MP: We should send S’poreans to poor countries so they realise SG is rich
Ang Wei Neng, MP for Jurong GRC, suggested that the Ministry of Education should send Singaporeans on compulsory trips to poor communities in neighbouring countries in order to show them how lucky they...
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Dr Chee to be Visiting Fellow at Sydney University
Dr Chee Soon Juan has been invited to be a Visiting Fellow at the University of Sydney. The SDP secretary-general will be at the University for one month from end May to end June. He will be there to...
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Tan Chuan-Jin: We don't know how many ex-PRs withdrew their CPF and kept...
Speaking in Parliament on Thursday, Minister for Manpower Tan Chuan-Jin explained that the government doesn't know how many ex-PRs withdrew all their CPF money before leaving Singapore.He said that...
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Lim Biow Chuan: We should force schools to give students 2 homework-free days...
MP for Mountbatten SMC, Lim Biow Chuan suggested in Parliament that the government should force schools to give students 2 days a week when they receive no homework.He suggested that to achieve this,...
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Teacher: We are graded for our non-teaching work
Reposted from www.YourSDP.org Dear SDP,I refer to your article titled, LHL on teachers leaving profession: "We knew we had a problem"I find that everything mentioned in the article is well put, but I'd...
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NSP will continue their CPF forums despite venue cancelling on them
*Article first appeared on http://nsp.sg/2014/06/02/the-silence-of-fear/Three years after what was hailed as a “watershed” election in GE 2011, many Singaporeans are still wary of opposition...
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Singapore PM accepts Japan PM request to lift all the restrictions on imports...
<above pic: Singapore Prime Minister following the lead of Japanese PM Shinzo Abe at the Shangri-La Dialogue held in Singapore yesterday>The Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Hsien Loong stated he...
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MP Alex Yam: Women should be included in full time NS not just volunteer corps
Speaking in parliament last week during the debate on the president's address, MP For Chua Chu Kang GRC, Alex Yam, said that the new SAF Volunteer Corps is a good idea but he also said that it wasn't...
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TRIBUTE TO LIM CHIN SIONG
Above is the oration of Dr Lim Hock Siew at Mr Lim Chin Siong’s cremation on the morning of 9 February 1996 at Mt Vernon, Singapore. The funeral was attended by about two thousand relatives and...
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