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Representatives from six political parties discussed their views on youth engagement at a forum conducted by the Institute of Policy Studies Politicians from six political parties yesterday turned their attentions to youth issues at a forum organised by the Institute of Policy Studies, titled “What Youth Want”. The speakers... 

In 1959, when David Marshall was elected as the Chief Minister of the island, he was not given an office to execute his duties. The mean British, who were the colonial masters then, gave him a small table and a chair next to the staircase, like the desk of a security guard. That was the contempt the British rulers had for a... 

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s People’s Action Party retained power with the smallest margin of popular votes since independence amid a record turnout that tripled the number of opposition members in parliament. The party that has ruled Singapore for more than five decades won 81 out of 87 parliamentary seats...