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Here’s why the Judge is Wrong on the M-YT By-Election Matter

The SDP is of the view that High Court Judge Chua Lee Ming is mistaken in his decision to dismiss Dr Wong Souk Yee's application for a by-election in the Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC on two counts. The first is that the Constitution stipulates that “Whenever the seat of a Member, not being a non-constituency Member, has become vacant...

Your HDB Ticking Time-bomb Lease – There is a Solution

HDB's CEO Dr Cheong Koon Hean said in a forum last week that buyers of resale flats should pay less for older flats because these flats have a lease of 99 years. This is bad news for Singaporeans who paid premium prices for the flats because we were promised that the value of our flats would appreciate over time. Moreover, many...

FB Tells SDP that Employees Engaged in Politics Cannot Use Company’s Resources

Mr Simon Milner, Facebook's Vice President for Public Policy, Asia Pacific, has assured the SDP that the company has "well-established processes" in place to ensure that activities of its employees who may be engaged in partisan politics in Singapore "do not involve Facebook's company resources". Mr Milner was replying to the...