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COMMENT: GE 2020 is dress rehearsal for Tan Cheng Bock's party
SINGAPORE — The Progress Singapore Party should look to the general election to be held by 2025, not 2020, as its real test, veteran journalist PN Balji argues.
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COMMENT - Truths, half-truths, opinions: where does POFMA stand?
SINGAPORE — Veteran Singaporean journalist P N Balji argues that the government's use of a controversial anti-fake news law has gone into grey areas.
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COMMENT: It's time to stop calling football Singapore's national sport
SINGAPORE — Call it a national pastime, a national hobby, even a national recreation. But stop calling football “Singapore's national sport” until it regains some semblance of competitiveness, says veteran sports journalist Chia Han Keong.
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COMMENT: SEA Games hosts must not drop the ball on athletes again
SINGAPORE — The SEA Games organisers owe it to the athlete contingent to ensure that the event is smoothly run, in order for the athletes to perform at their peak, argues veteran sports journalist Chia Han Keong.
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COMMENT: Community needs to act as a shield in suicide prevention
There is a need for broader community-based intervention strategies in suicide-prevention campaigns, says Dr Mythily Subramaniam, Director, Research, at the Institute of Mental Health.
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COMMENT: Singapore’s e-scooters on footpath ban welcomed but longer bike paths and new mobility solutions needed
The CEO of Beam Mobility Alan Jiang welcomed banning e-scooters on footpaths in Singapore but urged the authorities to expand cycling infrastructure and embrace smart mobility solutions.
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COMMENT: Heng Swee Keat needs to raise his game against Workers' Party
SINGAPORE — Fumbled. Blind-sided. Whichever sporting analogy you prefer, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat did it during the latest sitting of Parliament on Tuesday (5 November).
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COMMENT: A slight commotion over a motion
Bertha Henson looks at the motion by Heng Swee Keat made in Parliament made on 5 November.
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COMMENT: Internet mob 'justice' is no justice at all
If I could pick the scariest costume imaginable for this Halloween it would have to be the “internet mob”, says Yahoo News Singapore news editor Dhany Osman.
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Bertha Henson
COMMENT: SDP rally – between reason and rhetoric
SINGAPORE — The SDP is the first opposition party to declare that it has started campaigning for the general election.
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COMMENT: How AHTC verdict will play out at the General Elections
SINGAPORE — Veteran journalist PN Balji argues that both the PAP and WP face a tricky path ahead of the elections, in the wake of the AHTC verdict.
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COMMENT: Doubts over e-cigarettes mount in wake of US vaping deaths
A new medical crisis is gripping the US as 26 deaths and almost 1,300 cases have been reported arising from vaping-related illness within a few months.
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Bertha Henson
COMMENT: I blame Yale-NUS
Veteran journalist Bertha Henson wishes MPs never raised the issue of that cancelled Yale-NUS course – "there is no need to go to the G for everything".
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COMMENT: Slow and steady SDP
SINGAPORE — The Singapore Democratic Party has unveiled its programme in a deliberate and calibrated manner. It has got its act together so far in promoting its ambitious message.
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Will Potong Pasir stay or go?
SINGAPORE — Chiam See Tong, the man synonymous with Potong Pasir SMC, is expected to step down as chief of the Singapore People's Party in October. Will the constituency go quietly into the night too?
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The history of the Group Representation Constituency
SINGAPORE — Bertha Henson and Christalle Tay trace the history of the Group Representation Constituency, and the reasons for its genesis.
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COMMENT: Boundaries review committee formed...so now what?
It is kind of odd that the first formal move preceding a General Election comes in the midst of bad news. You have private sector economists revising economic growth projections for the year downwards to 0.6 per cent.
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Bertha Henson
COMMENT - FamiLEE saga: Where’s the consistency?
Veteran journalist Bertha Henson says the "optics" surrounding the latest twist in the Lee family saga is making her cross-eyed, weary and teary – where's the consistency?
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COMMENT - HIV data leak: MOH has plenty of explaining to do
HIV data leak in Singapore: MOH has plenty of explaining to do, says veteran journalist Bertha Henson.
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COMMENT: Long live the PAP?
Is the PAP here to stay? That depends on how you define “here to stay”, says veteran journalist Bertha Henson.
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COMMENT: PM Lee aims to stamp his legacy
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong is aiming to cement his legacy with his mega projects and steps to fight climate change, argued PN Balji. But certain measures announced at the National Day Rally also show that his government is behind the curve, the media veteran added.
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Bertha Henson
COMMENT: The level of Chinese tolerance in the face of the Preetipls saga
Veteran journalist Bertha Henson thinks the E-pay ad was offensive because it was aimed at the Chinese-speaking heartlander, rather than the population as a whole.
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COMMENT: Embracing the challenges of dyslexia
Singapore has put in place policies and measures to help people with dyslexia but more can be done in dealing with the multifaceted challenges of the specific learning difficulty, said Geetha Shantha Ram, a director at the Dyslexia Association of Singapore.
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Bertha Henson
COMMENT: NDR - Open letter to PM Lee
Veteran journalist Bertha Henson looks at the major announcements from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong's National Day Rally, and praises the government for its long-term planning.
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COMMENT: It's okay to dream big, but FAS must not act small in Goal 2034 quest
SINGAPORE — It is okay for Football Association of Singapore to focus on qualifying for the 2034 World Cup, but it will be another futile attempt if it doesn't act big on its dream, says Chia Han Keong.

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