MOM: Low Unemployment and More Job Vacancies this Year
The labour market remained tight in the first quarter of the year, with more job vacancies and fewer workers losing their jobs, according to figures released yesterday by the Manpower Ministry.There...
View ArticleAt least we have options of colours for our flats under Workers’ Party
[Looking at the new MDA licensing for internet, it means you have less options and perhaps only one option - the ‘right thing’ media. So, it is important to have strong oppositions in the Parliament to...
View ArticleKhaw Criticizes Young Singaporeans as being too 'Suspicious'
Minister for National Development, Khaw Boon Wan, criticized young Singaporeans at the World Cities Summit Mayors Forum in front of 250 representatives from 50 different cities yesterday. He spoke...
View ArticlePritam Singh: Just when i thought the haze was clearing up...
Just when I thought it was clearing up....it got worse with the PSI level close to unhealthy range.... While most of us will not be affected by the current PSI levels, friends with a history of...
View ArticlePAP MPs know of our struggles, they just cant do anything about them
I used to work in HDB Branch Office. For people who worked in HDB or in People's Association, most of us have to pretend to support PAP MPs and Grassroots Advisors even though we like it or not. Most...
View ArticlePM Lee: I am also affected by the haze
Sharing a photo of the haze taken from Istana. The city in the distance is barely visible.We are all affected by the haze. Farmers and plantation owners in Sumatra are burning crops to clear land in...
View ArticleMinister Shanmugam: Stop blaming the PAP for causing the Haze issue!
Many have commented about the haze situation, some have said - why keep talking. Why cant you do more ? Some like Mr William Sin uses expletives (against the PAP). I suppose for some people like Mr...
View ArticleMore can be done to fight the haze problem
The PSI has been at unbearably unhealthy levels again. One of the things that we can do is to support companies with proven good land clearing practices and boycott those found to be burning. However,...
View ArticleYaacob Ibrahim: Specific bloggers named so as to be fair to online community
In a Facebook post, Minister for Communications and Information, Yaacob Ibrahim has defended his parliamentary speech where he highlighted blogger Ravi Philemon and some other online websites for...
View ArticleBalakrishnan, building false arguments with the support of State Media
Vivian attempted to cloud the AHPTC saga by refusing to acknowledge that his argument was out of context. The first point he needed to address before he spews more irrelevant garbage is to bring...
View ArticleVivian attempted to cloud the AHPTC saga by refusing to acknowledge that his...
Vivian attempted to cloud the AHPTC saga by refusing to acknowledge that his argument was out of context. The first point he needed to address before he spews more irrelevant garbage is to bring...
View ArticleSDP website continues to be inaccessible
Dear friends,The SDP website continues to be inaccessible from Singapore and Malaysia due to a DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack on our web hosting provider uCoz.The present attack targets...
View ArticleRavi Philemon responds to Minister Yaacob who mentioned him in Parliament &...
I refer to Dr Yaacob Ibrahim’s speech in Parliament on 8 July 2013 in response to parliamentary questions on haze. As the Minister for Communications & Information mentioned me by name twice in his...
View ArticleSTATEMENT FROM THE PRIME MINISTER'S OFFICE ON ALJUNIED-HOUGANG-PUNGGOL EAST...
1. Mr Low Thia Khiang said that the grave charges made by Minister Vivian Balakrishnan in Parliament, that MPs Ms Sylvia Lim and Mr Pritam Singh were untruthful, were ‘personal attacks’. He also...
View ArticleSG spends only 3.5% GDP on Welfare and yet Shanmugam says it can't increase
**TRS EDITORIAL PIECE**At the NUS U@live Forum today, Shanmugam highlighted some of Singapore’s main challenges going into the future.He said that rising expenditure, coupled with a decline in the...
View ArticlePritam Singh: Prime Minister wrongly accused me of plagiarising blogger's...
[This is a response to the Prime Minister's statement over the Hawker centre cleaning issue here:...
View ArticleWorkers Party's Statement on Hawker Centre Cleaning: Our MPs’ consciences are...
We refer to the statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office on 12 July 2013.The various allegations against the integrity of Workers’ Party’s Members of Parliament contained in the statement have...
View ArticlePMO: Miss Sylvia Lim and Mr Pritam Singh made false and untruthful statements
Chang Li Lin, the Press Secretary to the Prime Minister has issued the following response to the media after queries regarding Mr Low’s statement (‘Low Thia Khiang: Our MPs’ consciences are clear‘):...
View ArticleNSP's Statement on Leadership - Get the Debate Back on Track
The National Solidarity Party (NSP) is troubled by what we see as the declining level of discourse in our politics recently. The last sitting of the House is a good case in point. There appears to be a...
View ArticleRecord suicide rate - what's ailing Singapore
Singapore recorded 467 suicides in 2012 – the highest number in 20 years. On average, more than one person took his/her own life everyday in Singapore last year. That's a 30 percent jump from 2011.The...
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