The Workers’ Party (WP) will append the Parliamentary speeches by the Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh and MP Gerald Giam to its Oct 18 statement on the Israel-Hamas war, which should make its position on the Hamas attack quite clear. Mr Singh said this in the House on Monday (Nov 6), in response to a request by
The Workers' Party (WP) statement that omitted the word 'terrorism' to describe Hamas attacks in Israel has "left room for ambiguity", Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan told Parliament on Monday (Nov 6). In a speech today on the Israel-Hamas conflict, he said that it is in Singapore's national interest to strongly condemn the attacks. "Let me be clear, what Hamas did.
SINGAPORE: On external matters where national security is at stake, political parties should not try to outflank the government “just to score political points”, said Singapore's Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong on Monday (Nov 6). Mr Wong was speaking during a parliamentary debate on a
The Bill “reverses” some of the “liberalisation” of the Societies Act in 2004, said MP Gerald Giam. Speaking in Parliament on Wednesday (Oct 4), he pointed out that it seeks to allow the Registrar of Societies to require further information to ascertain whether the society does indeed qualify for registration v