Manpower Minister Josephine Teo suggests EP quota may be unwise — but netizens still disagree
Suggestions to limit the issuance of Employment Passes (EPs), while not a far-fetched one, may be unwise, said Manpower Minister ...
Day: 1 September 2020
Chan Chun Sing says S’pore emphasise quality than quantity in foreign work pass; Netizens mock CECA as a good representation of importing foreigners by quantity
With the announcement of increasing minimum salary threshold for Employment Passes (EPs) and S Passes, Singapore is “re-doubling up efforts” ...
SDP chief Chee Soon Juan urges Jurong-Clementi Town Council to build proper footpath for pedestrians near several housing blocks in Bukit Batok
Singapore Democratic Party chief Chee Soon Juan on Monday (31 August) urged the Jurong-Clementi Town Council to construct a pathway ...
What does the Elections Department have to say about complains of election rule violations?
During the first day of parliamentary debates on Monday (31 August), Workers’ Party (WP) MP of Hougang SMC Dennis Tan ...
Facebook threatens ban on Australians sharing news in battle over media law
Facebook threatened Tuesday to block users and media organisations in Australia from sharing news stories if a landmark government plan to ...
The fact that we are even talking about a Singaporean core shows that our leaders have failed Singaporeans
by Augustine Low Have you heard of the Malaysian core? What about the Indonesian core? Or the Vietnamese core? There ...
Malaysian: Why I quit Malaysia and feel at home in Singapore
Malaysian Marc Chua wrote on the online Malaysian news media, freemalaysiatoday.com, on Sunday, calling his fellow Malaysians to return back ...
No shadow Cabinet, but Opposition will focus on five key areas – Leader of Opposition WP’s Pritam Singh
In his first speech in Parliament as the official Leader of the Opposition (LO) on Monday (31 August), Workers’ Party ...
LTA: SimplyGo pilot programme to expand the use of adult EZ-Link cards
The Land Transport Authority (LTA) on Tuesday (1 Sep) launched a pilot to expand the use of SimplyGo to include ...
‘I am Taiwanese’: Czech speaker channels JFK in Taiwan speech
A senior Czech politician invoked a famous Cold War-era phrase by late US president John F Kennedy as he delivered ...