The PAP prioritises including every Singaporean on the Singapore Forward journey. To this end, PAP MPs gave suggestions in Parliament last week (Apr 17-21) on how to support different age groups and demographics of Singaporeans from youths to parents ...
By Senior Minister of State for Finance and Transport Chee Hong Tat Last week, in the debate the President’s Speech at the Opening of the second session of the current Parliament, a recurrent theme was the need for responsible and constructive politi
“We must build bridges, not walls,” said Deputy Prime Minister Heng Swee Keat in Parliament on Apr 20. This was part of his call for us as a nation to get three things right so that Singapore can continue to succeed in
Never mind that Singapore will be a super-aged society in 2026, with more than one in five people here aged 65 or older. “We are in a position to cushion the impact of ageing, and perhaps even reap dividends from it,” said
Singapore is an outlier in many ways. As a tiny island, there was a time when people thought that Singapore would not make it. Except that we did, with the sentiment now immortalised in the iconic National Day song “We Are Singapore
We can distil Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s speech in Parliament this Wednesday (Apr 19) into one broad but important theme: Trust. Now, trust is not earned easily, nor given lightly. And it is needed in this very troubled global era for
The PAP Government will leave no one behind even while Singapore moves forward. “We want to be a country where there will always be opportunities for families to better their circumstances, and where their children have hope of a better and brighter
Is Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s latest speech a harbinger of change? “Less about ‘I and Me’. And more about ‘Us and We’,” summed up DPM Wong on Apr 17, when Parliament returned from its mid-term break to debate on the President’s
Embracing multiculturism has always been a hallmark of Singaporean society, and our potpourri of festivals reflects that. That is why while Hari Raya Puasa is a religious holiday to celebrate the end of the fasting month of Ramadan, it has beco ...
There is a need to keep Singaporean society safe from the growing worldwide problem of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS). NPS are dangerous synthetic drugs which mimic cocaine, heroin and cannabis and are very popular with local drug abusers an ...
Strengthening Singapore’s social fabric. Building a smart and liveable city. And expanding our system of meritocracy to be broader and more open. President Halimah Yacob set out these priorities for the Government during her Presidential Address at t ...