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1 week ago | 
straitstimes.com | Zhaki Abdullah |Ng Keng Gene |Nadine Chua |Shaffiq Alkhatib
Follow our live coverage here. SINGAPORE – Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong led his PAP team to victory in the newly-formed Punggol GRC, beating a team of first-time candidates from the WP with 55.17 per cent of the vote. The WP clinched 44.83 per cent of the vote. Of the votes cast, 63,589 went to PAP, 51,663 went to the WP, and 822 were rejected.
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1 week ago | 
sg.news.yahoo.com | Zhaki Abdullah |Ng Keng Gene |Nadine Chua |Shaffiq Alkhatib
DPM Gan Kim Yong (second from right) speaking at Bedok Stadium early on May 4. With him are his fellow Punggol GRC candidates (from left) Sun Xueling, Janil Puthucheary and Yeo Wan Ling. SINGAPORE – Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong led his PAP team to victory in the newly formed Punggol GRC, beating a team of first-time candidates from the WP with 55.17 per cent of the vote. The WP claimed 44.83 per cent of the vote.
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2 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Ng Keng Gene |Zhaki Abdullah
SINGAPORE – Prime Minister Lawrence Wong has rebuked the WP’s ‘negative tone’ and ‘negative attacks’ in its criticism of Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong and his team, as well as his deployment in Punggol GRC. “We may have our differences, but there is no need to go into negative attacks on individuals, especially (towards) someone like Gan Kim Yong, who has done so much for Singapore and he continues to do so. I made him my number two and my deputy because I’ve seen him in action.
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3 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Ng Keng Gene |Clement Yong
Follow our live coverage here. SINGAPORE – The Singaporean religious teacher who said he spoke to WP candidates contesting the upcoming election had turned up at a meeting that the party had with Malay/Muslim religious leaders, said WP chief Pritam Singh.
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3 weeks ago | 
straitstimes.com | Ng Keng Gene |Joyce Lim
SINGAPORE – The PAP’s battle with WP for East Coast GRC will be Culture, Community and Youth Minister Edwin Tong’s toughest General Election to date, he said on April 23. At a press conference where he formally introduced PAP’s East Coast team, which he is leading, Mr Tong said that East Coast has always been a tough constituency to win.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Ng Keng Gene
SINGAPORE – Singaporeans are being encouraged to make a small monthly donation under a new national regular giving programme launched on Jan 18. Called SGSHARE, the programme was launched to commemorate SG60 – the 60th anniversary of Singapore’s of independence. The new initiative builds on the Community Chest’s SHARE programme, which was launched in 1984 and encourages individuals and employees to donate a small amount of their monthly pay to charity.
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Jan 17, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Ng Keng Gene
SINGAPORE – The cost of living is an issue many Singaporeans are anxious about, and the Government has taken steps to help people cope and ensure that no one is left behind, Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong said on Jan 18. He added that more assistance is on the way this year, with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong delivering the Budget statement in Parliament in February.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Ng Keng Gene
SINGAPORE – Beneath the intersection of Queensway and Portsdown Avenue is a mound of earth and some uninviting slopes, but the area underneath this busy viaduct will soon become a gathering space for the community. The space beneath the Queensway viaduct is one of the upcoming “community nodes” that are being developed along the Rail Corridor.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Ng Keng Gene
SINGAPORE – The occupancy caps of 91 private residential properties were breached during a period of about nine months in 2024, with two exceeding a limit that was eased temporarily to cool the home rental market. National Development Minister Desmond Lee told Parliament in a written reply on Jan 8 that from Jan 22, 2024 to Oct 31 that year, 415 complaints involving alleged breaches of the occupancy cap in private residential properties were investigated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
straitstimes.com | Ng Keng Gene
SINGAPORE – The owners of Golden Mile Tower in Beach Road have been offered bonus gross floor area by the authorities if the complex is redeveloped, provided that the commercial complex’s iconic cinema block is conserved. The offer from the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) comes amid an ongoing collective sale exercise for the strata-titled development, which comprises an 18-storey office tower on top of a six-storey retail and carpark podium which houses the cinema block.
