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According to a Parliamentary reply given by Minister for Education Ong Ke Yung to Worker’s Party NCMP Leon Perera on Monday (8 Jul), the Ministry of Education spends around $130 million – or 1% of its budget – to foreign students in Singapore annually. Minister Ong said that the government does “give out a small number... 

Responding to a question by Worker’s Party Secretary-General Pritam Singh, Minister Chan Chun Sing said on Mon (8 Jul) that: “The Prime Minister has not yet appointed the Electoral Boundaries Review Committee (EBRC).” MP Singh had earlier asked if the Prime Minister can i) provide an update on whether the EBRC has been... 

On a Facebook post on Monday (17 Jun), opposition leader Lim Tean called the Merdeka Package a “total sham” and a “classic case of giving you a chicken wing but taking the whole chicken back from you”. This was because the “yearly declining transitional premium subsidies will end” this year. So, although the Merdeka...