#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: February 18, 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 ...
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Dr Lee Weiling says “Papa knew what he was signing” in response to allegations that late LKY was rushed to sign final will -
Two new cases of Covid-19 infection; Both cases linked to new cluster at Wizlearn Technologies Pte Ltd -
Hong Kong pets face coronavirus quarantine after dog tests positive -
New Zealand confirms first coronavirus case -
Belarus reports first coronavirus case -
Germany quarantines 1,000 as coronavirus cases push past 50 -
North Korean official allegedly executed for risking spread of coronavirus -
Singapore and Hong Kong Budgets 2020 -
Heng Swee Keat seeks for President’s approval to tap on S’pore reserves if Covid-19 situation worsen -
Concrete slab estimated to be 10kg collapses from a HDB flat ceiling in Toa Payoh; netizens shared their own concrete experiences -
Five bus drivers to file civil lawsuit against SBS Transit following unsuccessful mediation -
ComfortDelGro driver quits after 10 years over high fares and rental rates -
Professor Cherian George discusses the demerits of the POFMA act -
Peoples Voice leader Lim Tean slams Education Minister Ong Ye Kung for not closing schools amid Covid-19 outbreak -
Netizens point out that social class divide in the education system is real, contrary to what Dr Janil said
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Lee Weiling: "I continue to be ashamed at Hsien Loong’s disrespect for his father’s dying wish" -
Ex-RSAF Chief replaces ex-SAF Scholar Gan as new SBS Transit CEO after Gan resigns over marital affairs -
S Korean Govt urges citizens wear mask at all times while SG Govt afraid citizens would use it “like tissue paper” -
Lee Hsien Yang: "What in the world did I stand to gain out of my supposed elaborate deception?" -
Hong Kong netizens offended by Chan Chun Sing's “disgraceful” remarks, saying Singapore do not understand Hong Kong’s actual situation -
Shameful and unsympathetic for Minister Chan to mock Hong Kong's panicked behaviour, says political consultant -
Bus drivers fed up with NTWU; say it's not worth being a Union member -
Singlish is not the damning thing about Minister Chan's leaked dialogue, but the way how he speaks down on the people he serves -
Singapore man with coronavirus-like symptoms dies in Indonesia after testing negative for Covid-19 -
ESM Goh achieves "Swiss standard of living" enjoying nature and simple pleasures of life at 70s -
SCCCI President Ng who wants to investigate audio leak, linked to PA's grassroots -
Did Lee Suet Fern and Lee Hsien Yang actually have any motivation to alter LKY's final will? -
Thailand and Taiwan cut down exports of face masks to overseas; Singapore not issuing any ban on the exports of face masks yet -
Resigned SBS Transit CEO alleged caught having affairs with subordinates by private investigator company -
Equal division of founding PM Lee Kuan Yew's estate "not a new idea", argues lawyer Lee Suet Fern
