New People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate, Chee Hong Tat, says it is “not a bad initiative” for “people who are more talented” or who have the interest, to “learn more about dialects”. Mr Chee, who was the Principal Private Secretary to the late and former Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew, was responding to criticisms from the public for a letter …

Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong confirmed on Friday that he will be standing in Marine Parade GRC for the upcoming election, to safeguard the constituency he has represented for nearly four decades against a team to be fielded by the Workers’ Party and to help with the leadership transition to what might be the PAP’s fourth generation team to govern …

Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean fired his party’s latest salvo at the opposition Workers’ Party, demanding that the party prove it is “at least able to run a town council” and taking issue with one of party chairman Sylvia Lim’s Instagram posts in a report by Channel NewsAsia. DPM Teo was referring to the ongoing Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council …

APP partners with Deltares to develop peatland best management practice model with Greenpeace monitoring its development.  In the largest exercise of its kind, a quarter of  Indonesian peat landscapes is mapped with LiDAR technology, building on its FCP commitment of a moratorium on all peatland development since 2013 . Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP)  announced it is committing to retire …

Getai performances will not be allowed before, during or after election rallies, said the police in a statement on Friday, emphasising that festivities for the Hungry Ghost Festival should be kept separate from politics. The police also added that event organisers during the Hungry Ghost Festival “should ensure that no speeches intended to canvass support for election candidates and/or political …

Members of Parliament (MPs) from Workers’ Party will not be attending the National Day Rally due to a clash in schedule with a grassroots event they have been planning since last year. This is said to be the first time that there will be no WP representatives attending the yearly event since the General Election in 2011. It is noted by the …