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DPM Teo advertises $1.80 chicken rice in his GRC

A reader sent the following screenshot of DPM Teo's Facebook post to TRE. DPM Teo was sharing a photo of chicken rice with netizens yesterday (29 Mar), with the following message: lunch only $1.80 at Pasir Ris Blk 446 The photo actually originated from Ng Cher Pheng (https://www.facebook.com/ng.cherpheng). He posted the photo...

Govt pushes for 14,000 uni places before GE

Education Minister Heng Swee Keat In a Facebook post [Link] yesterday (28 Mar), Education Minister Heng Swee Keat announced that Singapore's publicly-funded universities will reserve 14,000 places for Singaporeans in academic year 2014. This is 1,000 more than the 13,000 places in 2012. These additional places come from an overall...

Prof Koh: Important we feel this is our country

Dr Tommy Koh Professor Tommy Koh wrote an article which was published in the Straits Times today ('Is there an ideological cleavage in S’pore?', 29 Mar). Prof Koh said that for a long time, Singaporeans appear to share and believe in the following values and principles: Free trade and investment Market economy Globalisation Foreign...