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Transport Ministry: S$344 million paid to renew Bukit Panjang LRT

The Land Transport Authority (LTA) today (Mar 7) announced a S$344 million contract has been awarded to Canada-based engineering company Bombardier for the renewal works at Bukit Panjang LRT. Starting...

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Minister Khaw Boon Wan: Train operating hours will shorten further

Complaining about the lack of time to do maintenance works, Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan today (Mar 7) announced that operating hours will shorten further in the year instead of the previously...

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Khaw Boon Wan: More breakdowns but Reliability increased

Openly lying in Parliament, Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan made an atrocious claim claiming that his statistics show that rail reliability has increased. “After a painful 2017, the new signalling...

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Gan Kim Yong: Singaporeans have “buffet syndrome”

Announcing yet another government-policy inflation yesterday (Mar 7), Health Minister Gan Kim Yong accused Singaporeans for spending too much on “unnecessary treatments” and having a “buffet...

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Minister Masagos Zulkifli: Lower water consumption but price must increase...

Minister for Environment and Water Masagos Zukifli told Parliament yesterday (Mar 7) that Singaporeans have over-achieved the 2020 target of 147 litres per capita water use, with only 143 litres usage...

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Sylvia Lim: I will not apologise for questioning the government

Workers’ Party MP Sylvia Lim refused to be bullied and declared that she is only doing her duty as a MP and she will not apologise to the ruling party PAP government: “As an opposition MP, it is my...

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Singapore government may be generating Fake News to ban independent news sites

Fake news have been a convenient excuse for censorship in Singapore. The Singapore government is currently drafting censorship laws to ban independent news media which they brush off as “fake news”....

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Outpouring support for WP MP Sylvia Lim’s win over 3 Ministers

Outstanding. Singaporeans are cheering Workers’ Party MP Sylvia Lim’s standing up to the bullying by three heavyweight Ministers. Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat, Law Minister K Shanmugam and Culture...

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Singaporeans who can’t afford SNCC doubled

In yet another sign of increasing poverty among Singaporeans, the number of households charged for not paying town council service and conservancy charges (SNCC) have more than doubled in 3 years,...

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Minister Indranee Rajah: Sylvia Lim is dishonourable

Unhappy with WP MP Sylvia Lim winning a debate against 3 Ministers, Minister of State Indranee Rajah joined the foray attacking the opposition MP of being dishonourable. In a lengthy Facebook post,...

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Minister Lim Swee Say: I can give leeway to some foreigners

Speaking at a business forum yesterday (Mar 9), Manpower Minister Lim Swee Say said that some foreigners on Employment Pass (EP) may not need to meet the minimum S$3,600 salary requirement: “There is...

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Sylvia Lim victimised as distraction from GST increase

The GST has been raised and it has caused severe resentment on the ground. However, there is barely any discussion on the impact of the GST and precious parliamentary hours were instead spent...

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Minister Chee Hong Tat just scored an own goal: PAP cannot be trusted

“The Government had secretly intended to raise GST immediately, but backed down because of public reaction; The WP made this charge in Parliament, and the Government did not rebut it, so it must be...

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Opinion: Sylvia Lim is a victim of bullying

I express my opinions as a Singapore citizen and I will be straight talking. I refer to the ultimatum issued by Grace Fu, leader of the House, to Sylvia Lim to apologise to the House for suggesting...

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Ho Ching’s mental health in questionable state

After 14 years as Temasek Holdings CEO, the wife of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is still going on strong with no successor in sight. The infallible woman who lost tens of billions of the country’s...

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Ministers caught lying: Here are the “test balloons”

Straits Times, DBS, TodayOnline and UOB. These are the government-owned companies behind the “test balloons” WP MP Sylvia Lim were talking about. A search on pre-Budget state media reports revealed...

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MP Sylvia Lim may face 2 years jail and S$50,000 fine for “dishonourable...

Earlier in the week, Culture Minister Grace Fu laid down her threat: Apologise by Thursday (Mar 8) or else… Or else what? A little known law created in the British colonial days of 1962 called...

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Minister Chan Chun Sing: PA does the work of PAP

When questioned if the S$1 billion tax-funded government agency People’s Association (PA) is politicised, Minister of State Chan Chun Sing unwittingly admitted that the PA does the political work of...

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Minister Khaw Boon Wan: We will use live humans for train testing

In an announcement on his Facebook page yesterday (Mar 11), Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said that he will use live passengers for train testing on the East-West Line. Commuters will still have to...

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Dr Tan Cheng Bock: K Shanmugam is ungracious and arrogant

Sharing a video of WP MP Sylvia Lim, former PAP leader Dr Tan Cheng Bock said that the opposition MP was simply echoing the principles of Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Quoting the former PM, Dr Tan...

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