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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...

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At 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...

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Khaw 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...

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Pritam 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...

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PAP 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...

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PM 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...

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Minister 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...

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More 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,...

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Yaacob 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...

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Balakrishnan, 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...

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Vivian 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...

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SDP 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...

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Ravi 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...

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STATEMENT 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...

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SG 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...

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Pritam 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:...

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Workers 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...

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PMO: 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‘):...

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NSP'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...

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Record 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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