TR EMERITUS

Since its founding in pre-independence Singapore in 1957, the Workers’ Party has stood with Singaporeans and participated in every General Election, to enable Singaporeans to exercise their right to vote for their Members of Parliament and choose their Government. It has not been an easy journey. Through the high and low points... 

In 1993, Dr Chee Soon Juan was sacked by his employer the National University of Singapore for allegedly using research funds to send his wife’s doctoral thesis to the United States. Just a few months earlier, he became the first Singaporean academic to join an opposition party and contest in the general election. In... 

(AFP, 10 Jan) - Singapore's governing party faces a poll test this month to fill the seat of the ex-parliamentary Speaker who quit over an affair, officials said Wednesday, at a time of growing criticism of its rule. The January 26 by-election will give a new snapshot of the public mood two years after the People's Action Party...