Tag Archives: Parliament

In a post by the States Time Review, “More than 70 PAP MPs skip Parliament on Tuesday“, it is said that “According to a screenshot of a Parliament session on Tuesday (Jan 9), an estimated of more than 70 PAP MPs did not attend Parliament. Deputy Prime Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam was the only senior Minister present, and none of the three …

In NCMP Lina Chiam speech, which she delivered in Parliament last afternoon during the debate on the Community Disputes Resolution Bill, she called upon the Government to do more to strengthen the mediation process to retain the ‘kampong spirit’. She drew reference to the words of Law Minister K Shanmugam to illustrate how the introduction of this bill seems to …

With the new bill in Little India now being a reality, there is much talk about the potential risks of racial profiling and increased tensions in that area. There is a question as to whether the reformed bill will make the situation better or much worse. During the Parliamentary Reading on 18 February, there were some who felt it was …

By Leong Sze Hian I refer to the article “Plunge in number of households surrendering flats” (Straits Times, Nov 12). Flats surrendered dropped 7 times? It states that the number of households that surrendered their flats to the Housing Board (HDB) due to mortgage arrears fell sharply by about seven times from 2008 to last year. Bank loans’ forced sales dropped …

PAP MP Hri Kumar's suggestion is a dangerous one. Gerald Giam.

Workers' Party sec gen's speech in Chinese.

President's Address raises questions of why Parliament was prorogued in the first place.

Evaluating two decades of the Nominated MP scheme. TOC Editorial.