S’pore ruling party in poll test amid growing discontent
(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...
West vs Asia education rankings are misleading
New Scientist- 07 January 2013 MATHEMATICS and science are as essential to modern economies as coal was to the industrial revolution. So when the results of international tests show Western schoolchildren lagging behind their peers in countries like Singapore and Japan, alarm bells start ringing. The latest results to cause...
SDP: PM presses panic button
[Press Release] PM presses panic button The announcement by the Prime Minister of a by-election on such a tight deadline has come as no surprise. Following the Singapore Democratic Party’s announcement of our intention to stand and our strong showing at the constituency on Sunday and Monday (6 and 7 January 2013), the Prime...
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