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PAP Health Minister Gan Kim Yong has made unsubstantiated statements about patients with healthcare insurance policies (full riders) seeking “unnecessary treatment, leading to rising healthcare costs”. (“Patients with new Integrated Shield plan riders will have to make co-payment“) Although Gan should have taken healthcare... 

Global tech giants including Facebook and Twitter on last Thursday expressed concern about a possible Singapore plan to bring in a new law to tackle the threat of fake news, saying sufficient rules are already in place. Officials of Facebook, Twitter and Google attended a parliamentary hearing on how to counter the threat... 

Since Singapore’s corporate income tax rate is the lowest among Asean countries, raising government revenue by increasing corporate tax rate makes sense. But according to PAP, this will make us less competitive to the extent that higher costs will cause investors to flee, foreign investors would likely not consider Singapore...