By Timothy Lai Keeping up with the trend of the past few days, the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) announced the candidature of Mr Sidek Mallek, a compliance auditor for a leading security company, and Mr John Tan, Lecturer of Psychology and Statistics at Murdoch University, Kaplan Singapore. The key themes of education and income inequality were prominent. Mr Tan holds …

By Biddy Low The Workers’ Party unveiled their latest group of potential candidates today at their party headquarters. Led by Sylvia Lim and Png Eng Huat, the four would-be politicians include Terence Tan Li Chern, 44, a lawyer with Peter Low LLC, Firuz Khan, 48, chocolate manufacturer, Cheryl Loh, 31, a sales consultant and ex-student of Sylvia Lim, and Luke …

By Jolovan Wham (HOME) Holding placards and kneeling in the middle of a road outside the Ministry of Manpower building, two migrant Chinese workers were reportedly arrested for protesting over a dispute involving their recruitment agency. In response to queries from the media, a Ministry of Manpower spokesperson said that the couple had approached them for help in obtaining a …

By Masked Crusader Some have dubbed this year’s national day rally speech by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong—made just two days before he “advised” the President to dissolve parliament and announce the General Elections—as a People’s Action Party election rally. Indeed his speech, in which he asked for the peoples’ support for him and his team in leading Singapore into …

By Reperio Simon Jobs. This will be a hotly debated topic for this General Election. It is the one singular topic with many real concerns, ranging from security to opportunity, and Singaporeans have a right to question the policy performance of the ruling People’s Action Party and any proposals made by the opposition. In terms of job security for Singaporeans, …

The Reform Party (RP) introduced its candidates for West Coast GRC and Radin Mas SMC this morning at the Telok Blangah Food Centre. Kumar Appavoo, who previously stood for election as part of the West Coast team, will be fielded in Radin Mas SMC. Secretary-General Kenneth Jeyaretnam, chairman Andy Zhu, property agent Darren Soh and customer service executive Noraini Yunus …

This week Sean and Ben from the Calling it Out Show provide an overview of the upcoming election – key players, important grounds of contest, political manoeuvres – all in sports commentator style. Said Sean, “We used terms like “major injury to his bank account” (when talking about Chee Soon Juan’s defamation case) and “classic coattail manoeuvre” (referencing how Koh …

Mr Koh Choong Yong, 42, was introduced on 26 August as a Workers’ Party (WP) candidate. Mr Koh had stood in Sengkang West SMC at the last elections in 2011 and had garnered a respectable 42 per cent of the vote against Dr Lam Pin Min of the People’s Action Party (PAP). A Senior Software Engineer by profession, Mr Koh …

Workers’ Party (WP) Secretary General, Low Thia Khiang, speaks about how voters have seen for themselves how the government is kept on its toes after voting in seven opposition members of parliament. He also added that it has been hard for opposition parties to thrive under the governing party. He hopes Singaporeans will give them their support.

Is Nicole Seah coming back to Singapore to volunteer with the Workers’ Party for the upcoming General Election? The former National Solidarity Party (NSP) candidate who rose to stardom in the General Election 2011, said on her Facebook fanpage that while she would not be contesting in the General Election as a candidate, she would be coming back to Singapore …