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Straits Times and Channel NewsAsia limits news circulation of Leong suing PM...

Following the news of veteran Singaporean blogger's Leong Sze Hian defence and countersuit against Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Singapore's most prominent mainstream news outlets appear to be...

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MINDEF promotes Army Chief BG Goh to rank of Major-General

MINDEF issued a statement yesterday (26 Dec) saying that its Chief of Army Brigadier-General (BG) Goh Si Hou will be promoted to the rank of Major-General as of 1 Jan next year. The smiling BG Goh...

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Dodgy construction causing flash floods in Singapore – is it worth it?

This year, 128 contractors have been prosecuted and fined by Public Ultilities Board (PUB) for 203 offences involving unauthorised alterations and interference to the public drainage system or flouting...

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Singapore’s sole turtle and tortoise museum is expected to move to Yishun in...

After 18 years at the Chinese Garden, the Live Turtle and Tortoise Museum has found a new home. In January 2019, the museum will be all set to move to a slightly bigger space in ORTO leisure park in...

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Bill on deliberate online falsehoods to be tabled possibly by the first half...

Senior Minister of State for Law Edwin Tong has hinted at the tabling of a Bill aimed at curbing the spread of deliberate online falsehoods in the coming months after numerous consultations and debates...

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ST accused of deliberate misreporting regarding purported settlement between...

The Straits Times was accused of deliberate misreporting regarding what it calls a "so-called settlement" between controversial state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) and Abu Dhabi's...

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Russian father asked to pay up to SGD300,000 to see his daughter after...

Not too long ago we talked about a petition that was started by an advocacy group called the Family Justice Reform Singapore for a change in Singapore’s family justice system. Part of the petition...

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Netizens question stricter punishment to be imposed on security guards from 1...

Starting from 1st January, private security officers who slack off, sleep on the job or sign in to work drunk can face harsher punishment as the police strengthen penalties for errant behaviours to...

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No official word from Malaysia regarding construction of third link between...

Singapore has yet to receive "any official proposal or communications from Malaysia" related to the construction of any new road link between Johor and the Republic, said the Ministry of Foreign...

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Tan Kin Lian shoots down rumour that Leong Sze Han is wealthy enough fund his...

In an attempt to discredit the financial consultant and vlogger, Leong Sze Hian who is countersuing the PM for the abuse of the process of the Court, someone called Jason Koh alleged that Leong Sze...

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ICA has a budget of over SGD1 billion in 2018, $200 million more than 2017....

The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA) is struggling with a shortage of manpower, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Thursday amidst growing complaints about the horrendous...

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Lee Hsien Yang is modest and more in touch with the ground: Former NTUC...

In his recent Facebook post on 27 Dec, the former Chief Executive Office of NTUC Income Tan Kin Lian said that he has “a positive impression of Lee Hsien Yang” and believes that “he has different...

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SPF officer found guilty of forging a victim’s statement implying that she...

A female police offer was found guilty of forging a statement of a woman who had reported a case of molestation. The forged statement gave the impression that the alleged victim didn’t mind being...

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Resigned SBS Transit CEO alleged caught having affairs with subordinates by...

It was reported in the Straits Times yesterday that SBS Transit CEO Gan Juay Kiat has tendered his resignation to take responsibility for a “personal indiscretion” ("SBS Transit CEO Gan Juay Kiat...

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Nobel Prize-winning economist cites Li Shengwu’s “Credible Mechanisms” as...

A paper co-authored by Harvard University's Economics associate professor Li Shengwu was picked by 2012 Nobel Prize winner in Economics Alvin Roth as being the most significant economics research paper...

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Minimum Legal Age for tobacco raised to 19 years old from 1 January 2019

The Minimum Legal Age (MLA) for the purchase, use, possession, sale and supply of tobacco products will be raised from 18 to 19 years old starting from 1 January 2019. The MLA will subsequently be...

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SBS Transit CEO who resigns over “personal indiscretion” earns $1.2 million...

It was reported that SBS Transit CEO Gan Juay Kiat who has tendered his resignation to take responsibility for a “personal indiscretion” was allegedly caught having affairs with subordinates and other...

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Is  it electoral integrity if the laws are being rushed through to ensure...

While nothing concrete has been said which means that this could be pure conjecture on my part, I cannot help but feel that in connecting the dots, one thing is clear. There are seemingly idiot proof...

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Summing up 2018: How one man’s comeback stole the thunder and what Mahathir...

It is said that Dr Mahathir Mohamad lives up to the idiom that a leopard never changes its spots but he’s in good company because the exact same thing can be said of the People’s Action Party so in the...

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It might be time for Singapore Post to reassess their delivery and manpower...

One Singaporean, Andy Lau, had a bit of an awkward encounter with his postman recently. While he was at home on 26 December, he heard a knock on his front door. By the time he answered the door, a few...

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