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Palmer: "I made a grave mistake"

December 13, 2012 - 1:19am

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Judith Tan
Foo Jie Ying
Esther Ng
Elizabeth Law
Shaffiq Alkhatib

TNP PHOTO: Jonathan Choo
The Speaker of Parliament and MP for Punggol East SMC, Mr Michael Palmer, has resigned over his extramarital affair with a staff member of the People’s Association (PA) working in Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC.

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I'm no PAP attack dog

March 16, 2012 - 10:26pm

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Bryna Sim
Valerie Koh
Mok Xiao You

PICTURE: LIANHE ZAOBAO

Netizens have labelled him an "attack dog" planted by the People’s Action Party (PAP) to oppose issues raised by Opposition Members of Parliament.

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His silence forced party to act

February 16, 2012 - 12:46am

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Bryna Sim
Shaffiq Alkhatib
Teh Jen Lee
Benson Ang
Melvin Singh

 

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No comment on 'affair' rumours - WP's Yaw

January 26, 2012 - 12:53am

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Melvin Singh


TNP PICTURE: Kua Chee Siong

IT HAS not been a happy new year so far for the Workers' Party MP for Hougang, Mr Yaw Shin Leong, who has become the subject of a raging online firestorm.

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Ministerial pay cuts - too high or too low?

January 5, 2012 - 12:23am

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Eugene Wee
Lediati Tan
Koh Hui Theng


PICTURE: BH

THE MINISTERIAL pay review committee made its recommendations yesterday to cut the salaries of Singaporean political appointees.

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Prominent SDP members cutting back on party work

November 3, 2011 - 12:40am

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Bryna Sim

Several prominent members of the Singapore Democratic Party have signalled that they are rethinking their commitment to the party.

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Survey: S'poreans still unclear about president's role

November 1, 2011 - 11:22pm

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Koh Hui Theng

DESPITE the heated debates about the role of the Elected President during the Presidential Election just a few months ago, many Singaporeans appear to be still unclear about what the man in the highest office of the land can do.

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Workers' Party whacks back

August 25, 2011 - 12:01am

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Benson Ang

Yesterday, WP's secretary-general Low Thia Khiang came forward to refute claims made by the PA's grassroots leaders that the Hougang Town Council (HTC) had been restricting their access to space for years.

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They even fined our grassroots group

August 24, 2011 - 1:32am

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Benson Ang


ST FILE PHOTO

THE BATTLE over public spaces in opposition-held wards escalated yesterday after PAP's Hougang man and People's Association (PA) hit back at the Workers' Party, saying they made the precedents in Hougang first.

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Sylvia Lim accuses HDB of shifting goalposts

August 23, 2011 - 1:38am

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Lediati Tan


TNP PICTURE: Gavin Foo

WORKERS' Party chairman Sylvia Lim has accused the HDB of shifting the goalposts after the WP-held Aljunied Group Representation Constituency lost 26 public sites in June.

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