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Disgusted with the AGC’s prosecution of his son, Lee Hsien Yang asks Singaporeans: “Is this the kind of government we want?” The question posed and resounding statement that it makes are in my opinion highly significant if not plainly remarkable for three reasons. First and foremost, the person asking the question is... 

In 2006, in Lee Jnr’s first GE as PM , the PAP won 66.6% of the popular vote (Btw, in Goh Cock Chok Tong first GE as PM in1991, PAP only got 61%). In GE 2011, the 60.1% share of the popular vote was a black eye for PM and the PAP and the PAP had to pull all the stops to get up to 69.9%. So will be trying very hard not to... 

Singapore’s biggest and most successful opposition party only considers itself to be a “small party.” And it targets to win a third of parliamentary seats (about 30) in the medium term, according to Workers’ Party (WP) chief Pritam Singh. So make no bones about it – the WP only fancies itself as a “small party”...