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Singapore doctors strongly oppose removal of referral fees because it affects...

Through three medical representation groups, Singapore doctors are up in arm opposing the Singapore Medical Council’s (SMC) recent decision to ban doctors from paying referral fees to a third party –...

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Minister Lawrence Wong cut BTO supply: Pricing is within reach for everyone

In his blog post yesterday (Dec 14), Minister for National Development Lawrence Wong announced that he will cut HDB BTO housing supply to 17,000 for next year (2017) and claimed that pricing is...

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Singapore’s worsening diplomatic ties underscore impact of Lee Kuan Yew’s death

Following the death of Singapore’s iconic former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew in March 2015, Singapore’s diplomatic relations with major trading partners have took a turn for the worse. Singapore’s top...

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Minister Tan Chuan Jin and Lawrence Wong kicked out of Prime Minister role

The recent ruling party PAP Central Executive Committee (CEC) selection handpicked by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong have displaced 2 out of 4 potential candidates for the next premiership role....

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HDB: Carpark charges for 22 popular heartland will be raised 40%, on top of...

According to the Housing Development Board (HDB), carpark charges for 22 popular heartland areas will be raised, in addition to the recent nation-wide raise that began on Dec 1. The 22 sites are...

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Minister Lawrence Wong to build more private condos, cut HDB supply

According to the Government Land Sales (GLS) programme for the first half of 2017, the Singapore government will reserve more land for the construction of private condominiums. In its media statement,...

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Elderly poor queue over 10 hours to get S$60 hong bao by local temple in...

Poverty in Singapore has hit a chronic level. Over 1,000 Singaporean elderly poor took a queue stretching 500m long to receive a S$60 hong bao from a local temple in Balestier Road on Tuesday (Dec...

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LTA U-turn on Minimum mileage and peak hour requirements

According to the announcement by the Land Transport Authority (LTA) yesterday (Dec 18), taxi drivers in Singapore will no longer need to follow the minimum mileage and peak hour requirements due to...

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Minister Heng Swee Keat woke up from coma: Where is work?

According to state media Straits Times interview with Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat who recently suffered a stroke, the first thing the PAP Minister asked when he woke up from his coma was to ask...

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Free funeral service for elderly poor increase in demand in Singapore

According to a coverage by TodayOnline, Singapore’s elderly poor are in such drastic poverty that more are demanding for free funeral service as they have no money. An average cost for a funeral is...

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Singaporean students taught “anti-foreigner” sentiments as root cause behind...

When approached by Singaporean students for their schoolwork over the plight of low income foreign workers, a volunteer worker said that she was surprised that the students labelled “anti-foreigner”...

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Ministry of Foreign Affairs: Internet to blame for terrorism

In the past 2 years, 70 foreigners in Singapore were investigated for radicalisation and being supporters of terrorist organisations like ISIS, according to a media statement by the Ministry of...

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Minister Heng Swee Keat: Just change your job if you are retrenched

In an interview with state media Straits Times, Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat told retrenched workers to change their job and claimed that the government will “support” them. “As Singapore...

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Lee Hsien Loong: If no Malay contest, the Presidential Election will be open...

In an interview with Malaysian media The Star, the Singapore Prime Minister revealed that if no Malay candidate step up to contest, the Presidential Election will be open to all. “We do not have...

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Singapore bond market seeks S$22 billion debt refinancing

According to a report by Reuters, the Singapore economy could be in danger of default if its bond market do not secure the S$22 billion refinancing by 2017. The government Housing Development Board...

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Singaporeans ranked 8th most ignorant among 40 countries

According to a survey by a UK-based research company Ipsos MORI, Singaporeans are ranked 8th in the world for being the most ignorant among 40 countries. 27,250 interviews over 40 countries were...

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LKYSPP polls itself and found Singapore “tops in infrastructure”

The Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy (LKYSPP) conducted an internal poll of 244 “student leaders” and found that Singapore “tops in infrastructure”. The ludicrous poll, called the “SG100 Compass...

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Elderly poor cleaner slipped and died during work

A 70-year-old Singaporean cleaner with several chronic ailments slipped from a ladder and died while he was cleaning glasses of ancestral tablets at a columbarium. The elderly poor, Lai Seow Wah, has...

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16 year old boy commit suicide on N Level result collection day

A 16-year-old boy jumped to his death from his HDB building home in Compassvale Crescent yesterday morning at 4.45am (Dec 19). Liu Wenjie was supposed to collect his N Level result from his school,...

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Singapore Court award S$57 compensation to Singaporean victim for vicious...

In yet another landmark case proving that foreigners and rich have their way in Singapore, the Singapore Court yesterday (Dec 20) awarded a S$57 compensation to a Singaporean teacher who was viciously...

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