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With the exception of Tanjong Pagar GRC, all the seats will be contested in the coming general election as the opposition fields its strongest slate of candidates ever in the history of Singapore. 14 out of 15 GRCs and all 12 SMCs will be contested bringing the total number of contested seats to 82 out of 87 seats available... 

Embattled PAP Housing Minister Mah Bow Tan said he expects to lose votes in the coming general election over the housing issue which has become a hot potato for the PAP. Under Mr Mah’s watch, the prices of HDB flats have almost doubled in the last few years, pricing many ordinary Singaporeans out of the housing market. “This... 

In a sign that the PAP leaders are increasingly out of touch with the ground, PAP’s paramount leader Lee Kuan Yew now calls on Singaporeans to buy resale flats if they are unwilling to wait for the new flats to be built. The sky-rocketing prices of HDB flats is likely to be a major issue in the coming election. Despite... 

1．  成立一个独立专业的咨询团，参照世界各国政治职务薪金，结合新加坡的资源和人口，定立一个基本薪金。 政治职务的薪金只能和世界各国的政治职务薪金比照。不能偷换概念与那些唯利的企业总裁并论，同时政治职务不是企业总裁，可以环球打工。 2． ... 

Residential property buyers from mainland China are helping to push real estate values in Singapore to new market highs, according to the latest figures. Jones Lang LaSalle has reported significant increases in the price of mass market private apartments in the first quarter of the year, with the average cost of a home... 

Singapore Democratic Party’s Secretary-General Dr Chee Soon Juan has answered Dr Vivian Balakrishnan’s call for it to state its position on the issues of gay rights. Instead of engaging the SDP on policy matters, the PAP team in Holland-Bukit Timah has launched a smear campaign to demolish its opponents by capitalizing... 

The picture above was taken by a New Paper reporter and it shows Chee Soon Juan talking to Tan Jee Say. Tan Jee Say was Goh Chok Tong’s principal private secretary from 1995 to 2000.  Although Tan Jee Say has not decided whether he will be running in the coming elections, the picture of him sitting across a very... 

Bankrupted of ideas to bring Singapore forward and unable to account for its dismal performance in the last five years, PAP’s paramount leader Lee Kuan Yew now resorts to his usual ‘grandmother stories’ to plead with Singaporeans to continue to support his team. The Straits Times published a photo showing Lee and... 

The amount of excitement that has been aroused on the opposition parties is something even the normally arrogantly sanguine MM Lee Kuan Yew could not fail to miss. It must have frightened the wits out of him to see that the wind of change has finally come to sweep the PAP from its pedestal. Maybe the PAP may not be swept... 

新加坡政府是为谁服务? 是为当权者服务，是为资本家服务，或者，是为人民服务的政治立场才是决定政策方向的最重要因素。 本地媒体的一篇大选文章，提出了小国论来解释政策选择的局限性；指出反对党的政纲不能只是纸上谈兵、信口开河，质疑替代政策是否都经过深入的论证？以及强调体制内的人未必都是集体思维者的说法。 观点有多面性，因此，不妨从不同的角度来看看同一议题可以有些什么另类的说法。 首先，一个国家的大小对发展政策的考量确实是有其影响，然而，‘我国政治领导人相信，对新加坡这样一个蕞尔小国而言，不管是生存的选择还是政策的选择都是有限的’这一说法却是片面的，因为政治立场才是决定政策选择的根本思维。 环顾世界的小国群体，其中有各种不同的发展策略和不同的政体，西方世界里就有以服务业为主要经济体的两党制政府。这一种多元多样化现象和小国选择有限的观点是不符的。 有限是一个相对的概念，有限不表示没有选择的空间。显然的，新加坡的制造业经济和一党专政的模式，绝对不是一个小国的唯一选择。 新加坡是否要改变，以及如何改变制造业与服务业的经济比重，和新加坡的大小是没有太大的关系。看看香港在过去十数年的经济结构变化，答案就在其中。 新加坡政府是为谁服务?...