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NCMP Yee Jenn Jong: Keeping Healthcare Costs Manageable
Debate on MediShield Life Committee ReportBy Non-Constituency MP, Yee Jenn Jong [Delivered in Parliament on 8 Jul 2014]Mr Deputy Speaker, I welcome the move to improve protection against large hospital...
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MP Png Eng Huat: Out-of-Pocket Payments and Inclusion of Pensioners
By MP for Hougang SMC, Png Eng Huat [Delivered in Parliament on 9 Jul 2014]According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), the goal of universal health coverage is to ensure all people have access to...
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PAP MP Hri Kumar: A Reflection on why I organized the CPF Forum
A close friend of mine looked at the hullabaloo caused by my recent CPF Forum and asked why I bothered doing it. He had a point - it is easier to do nothing.So why?During the Second World War, General...
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Kenneth Jeyaretnam: Is the Government Going Bust?
I was quite shaken by my trip to Parliament yesterday to watch the CPF “debate” . There wasn’t really any debate at all. Our Finance Minister, Tharman made a speech that was full of irrelevancies...
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Lim Chin Siong vs Lee Kuan Yew: The True and Shocking History
Reposted from YourSDP.org IntroductionSchools teach our children that Lee Kuan Yew heroically delivered Singapore from the evil clutches of the communists and gave us what we have today.Whether such an...
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Yaacob Ibrahim: Community Norms is the reason why we remove the Award-Winning...
I refer to NLB’s statement, "NLB Takes a Cautious Approach in Selecting Books for Children".https://www.facebook.com/nlbsg/posts/10152225024695924The withdrawal of the three children’s titles from our...
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SDP Chong Wai Fung: Govt must stop profiting from healthcare
SDP Treasurer, Ms Chong Wai Fung, spoke at the Hong Lim Park Return Our CPF rally today. Ms Chong is a healthcare research analyst and holds two Masters degree, one in Clinical Epidemiology and another...
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Pritam Singh: How the minimum sum scheme was born
CPF Series - Article 3: Howe Now30 January 1994, The Straits TimesThis article traces how the CPF Minimum Sum scheme was born.The 1984 Howe Yoon Chong Report of the Committee of the Aged, often...
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Reform Party: We already warned the PAP about SG's slowing economy
Q2 GDP Slump: Reform Correctly Predicted This and Called for Stimulus Measures Ahead of TimeThe preliminary figures for Q2 2014 show the economy contracting at 0.8% on a quarterly annualized basis...
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Hri Kumar: I suggest that only Adults should be able to borrow the 'Gay'...
I disagree with NLB’s decision to pulp the three children’s books. Here is why. I do not agree with the argument that destroying books is akin to censorship, and that all censorship is bad. There...
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SDP: The cheque bounced
Singapore DemocratsIn 1960, Mr Lee Kuan Yew said: “I have not the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in [the people's] interests.” With that promise, the PAP wrote Singaporeans a...
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M'sia Minister: S'poreans will still come into M'sia for cheap food and products
GELANG PATAH: The proposed Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP) fee for all foreign vehicles entering Johor Baru will have minimal to no impact on Singaporeans entering the city via the Causeway and Second...
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NSP: Straits Times shared our confidential draft with others without our...
Was NSP’s Embargoed Policy Proposal Circulated to 3rd parties by ST?On Sat 28 June 2014, NSP invited The Straits Times (ST) to attend our Press Conference to be held at 7.45 pm, 2 July 2014 at which...
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Russia spotted editing Wikipedia page about downed Malaysia Airlines jet
A Twitter bot that keeps watch on Wikipedia pages edited by those inside the Russian government spotted major changes to an entry about yesterday's crash of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, which killed...
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Turkish Prime Minister: Israel is more barbaric than Hitler
ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Israel of "barbarism that surpasses Hitler" during its ground invasion of Gaza.Erdogan made the comment during a campaign...
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Gerald Giam: Questions on the new bus contracting model
Article first appeared on http://geraldgiam.sg/ (20 July 2014)By Gerald GiamI asked the Minister for Transport 3 parliamentary questions and another 4 supplementary questions regarding the new bus...
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Why do ambulances ask you whether you can pay $120 before bringing you to...
In response to a guy called Christopher Ng Wai Chung who accused me of "politicking" when I raise the issue of ambulance asking whether you can pay the fee of $120 before they offer their service to...
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Gomez: De-couple healthcare and housing costs from CPF
Singapore DemocratsAny reform of the CPF scheme needs to concurrently look at healthcare and public housing reform. SDP’s Dr. James Gomez made this key point during a video forum organised by The...
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Obama will sign order barring gay, transgender discrimination
President Obama has turned down a plea from religious groups that they be exempt from an executive order he plans to sign Monday prohibiting federal contractors from discriminating against gay or...
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SDP: Awakening among citizens brings hope
Singapore Democrats[Text of video in English]:Peace be unto you.How time flies. The world marches on towards becoming more sophisticated as ever. Consistent with this development we have also changed...
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