Taufiq Zalizan

5 days ago | channelnewsasia.com | Taufiq Zalizan

The People’s Action Party (PAP) may have had an uninterrupted streak of governing post-independence Singapore for almost 60 years, but this record did not stop some party activists and members from going into the recent General Election with a good amount of pessimism. They chalked this up to the growing desire among voters for greater political contestation and diversity in parliament, based on online chatter and “coffee-shop talk” among friends.

1 week ago | channelnewsasia.com | Taufiq Zalizan

SINGAPORE: The People’s Action Party (PAP) has emerged as the winner in a four-way fight for Tampines Group Representation Constituency (GRC), getting 52.02 per cent of the vote in Singapore’s General Election on Saturday (May 3). A PAP team led by Social and Family Development Minister Masagos Zulkifli defeated teams from the Workers’ Party (WP), National Solidarity Party (NSP) and People’s Power Party (PPP).

1 week ago | channelnewsasia.com | Taufiq Zalizan

SINGAPORE: The People’s Action Party (PAP) on Saturday (May 3) won the newly formed West Coast-Jurong West Group Representation Constituency (GRC) with 60.01 per cent of the votes. The contest between the PAP’s five-person team helmed by National Development Minister Desmond Lee and the Progress Singapore Party (PSP) team led by chairman Tan Cheng Bock was closely watched.

1 week ago | channelnewsasia.com | Taufiq Zalizan

SINGAPORE: More than 1,600 Facebook accounts believed to be inauthentic have been detected posting 8,000 partisan and sometimes inflammatory comments in posts by news outlets over a two-day period, latest checks by CNA have found. From Apr 27 to 29, CNA looked at 37 Facebook posts about two People’s Action Party (PAP) candidates – 13 were posted by CNA, another 13 by the Straits Times (ST) and 11 by online media site Mothership.

2 weeks ago | channelnewsasia.com | Taufiq Zalizan

SINGAPORE: The People’s Action Party's (PAP) approach when it comes to policies has always been to bring Singaporeans together, even when it comes to difficult issues, said Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Wednesday (Apr 30). Citing the repeal of the 377A, wearing of tudung in healthcare settings, and the recent Israel-Hamas conflict, Mr Wong said that the PAP government seeks to build consensus on such contentious topics.