#SGBudget2019: Reduced travellers’ import tax relief to offset GST increase, more returns for lower and middle income S’poreans
The increase in the Goods and Services Tax (GST) from 7% to 9% will be mitigated through the scaling down of ...
Day: 18 February 2019
International human rights lawyer, M Ravi launches website documenting 16 years of his work
International human rights lawyer, speaker and author M Ravi is launching a new website which he defines as “an extension ...
MINDEF: Benjamin Davis defaulted on NS obligations, committed offence under Enlistment Act
Local footballer Benjamin Davis who was earlier in the news over his bid to defer his National Service has been ...
Government earmarks S$5.1 billion for Long-Term Care Support Fund
Singapore is home to an ageing population and even now, 1 in 4 people are over 55 years old. As ...
Netizens divided over Minister K Shanmugam’s stand that using cannabis for medical purposes is like “dealing in destruction and death”
Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam told Channel NewsAsia that the trend towards accepting cannabis for medical use is ...
GCE A-Level examination results release and changes to Poly admission for A-Level graduates
The results of the 2018 Singapore-Cambridge General Certificate of Education Advanced Level (GCE A-Level) examination will be released on this ...
Over 7,770 people received the wrong CHAS subsidies due to a software error
About 7,700 individuals received inaccurate healthcare and intermediate- and long-term care subsidies due to a software error in the NCS ...
NCS recruits M’sian burglar suspect who later steals $62,000 worth of IT equipment from IMDA
It was reported that a Malaysian engineer Soh Jun Sheng, who is a Singapore Permanent R, was sentenced to two ...
Heng Swee Keat unveils details for Merdeka Generation Package
Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat revealed the long awaited details for the new Merdeka Generation Package (MGP) during the budget ...
Paranoia breeds secrets and secrets breed speculation in this country
Dr Tan Cheng Bock recently asked, “What’s happening to our reserves? Are our reserves all gone?” He will not get ...