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There is speculation that the General Election will be called in July. The country is just emerging from an unprecedented two-month lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The government is still trying to figure out how to handle this period. As Mr Chan Chun Sing has admitted, the Elections Department cannot even come up with... 

DPM Heng Swee Keat says that the sooner the General Election is held, the quicker Singapore can deal with the Covid-19 situation. It is unfortunate and even dangerous for the elections to be seen as an inconvenience to be gotten over with rather than a critical moment for the nation to come together to decide on its future... 

The spike of Covid 19 infections among our foreign workers living in cramped and poorly-ventilated dormitories has exposed not only the country’s addiction to and exploitation of low-wage workers. It has also put the spotlight on the inequitable social and political structure on which the Singapore economy is built. This has...