Speaker of Parliament Halimah Yacob has decided to run in this year’s presidential election (PE), according to a source close to the 62-year-old. Halimah, who is also a Member of Parliament for Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC, has communicated her decision to run in the…
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In 1961, Madam Zulaika Mohamad Osman agreed to marry a man she had never met. She was 21. He was double her age, at 41 – a widower with one daughter. The matchmaker was a Chinese neighbour of hers, who…
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I first got together with my Malay Muslim husband when I was 17 and I converted when I was 18. 2 weeks after I turned 21, we got married and have been happily married for the past 4 years. When…
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Early this morning a cartons of eggs, believed to have fallen out of a vehicle, blocked off at least one lane along Orchard Road. The spillage of broken eggs, on the second lane outside Mandarin Gallery, stretches for about the…
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MPs running town councils is a terrible idea that largely only serves to effectively stifle opposition politics in Singapore by raising near impossible barriers to entry. The skill set of a good town council manager is entirely different from that…
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