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GE2025: Not easy to be young parents but govt is there to help, says PM Wong in first Sengkang visit since leadership handover

David Bale1 month ago03 mins

SINGAPORE: While young parents in Singapore face many cost challenges, the government is doing much more to help, said Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Sunday (Mar 16). This includes measures announced in the recent budget, like more Community Development Council (CDC) vouchers, SG60 vouchers and LifeSG credits, he said. “I know it’s not easy to…

GE2025: WP notes ‘significant’ changes to boundaries in areas it’s been working; PSP questions ‘drastic’ tweaks

David Bale2 months ago05 mins

SINGAPORE: The opposition Workers’ Party (WP) noted “significant” changes to areas where it has been “working consistently for the last few years”, in revisions to Singapore’s electoral boundaries released on Tuesday (Mar 11). Meanwhile, the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) questioned what it called “drastic” tweaks to the boundaries ahead of a coming General Election, which left just nine…

A decade after Singapore last held physical election rallies, nearly half of those sites are no longer around

David Bale3 months ago03 mins

Institute of Policy Studies research fellow Teo Kay Key also highlighted crowd size as a major consideration. “It would cause chaos for nearby residents if the party underestimates the crowd and there is no effective crowd control, and it would look like a waste of resources if the venue is too large for the crowd…