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Vellama Marie Muthu and her lawyer M Ravi asked the court to declare if the Prime Minister has the option to decide on the by-election and when it is held. (Yahoo! photo/Andrew Loh) Does the Prime Minister have the option whether to call a by-election, and does he also have the discretion to decide when to call one? These two... 

Leong Sze Hian We often read that Singaporeans do not want to be cleaners (‘Where have the cleaners gone?’; Mon, 26 Mar, ST). If that is so, why is it that the unemployment rate for cleaners, labourers and related workers, at 5.1 per cent, was the second highest among all job categories, according to the Ministry of Manpower’s... 

Lee Kuan Yew: "Like it or not, unless we have more babies, we need to accept migrants" Part II of my write up on this series dealt with issues of escalating technology, cockroach capitalism, globalization change, resources constraints particularly “peak oil” which will prove severely detrimental to Singapore’s...