In Singapore, calls for more background checks on political parties to ensure transparency
Such checks will be critical to ensure candidates fielded are fit and proper, and show the party has done its due diligence, ...
Prospects for poly grads likely affected by drop in hiring demand and job vacancies in 2024
Some poly graduates rejected full-time permanent job offers because of work-life balance and pay. Read more at ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore10d
Rare for Singapore political parties to use background screening firms to vet candidates: Industry players
The Workers’ Party’s decision to hire firms for background checks allows the party to distance itself from a candidate if ...
East Asia Forum website blocked in Singapore again for non-compliance with Pofma order
The Australia-based platform had failed to comply with a correction direction issued on Jan 22. Read more at straitstimes.com ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore19d
Pritam Singh warns Workers' Party members: Unity essential to achieving one-third opposition in parliament
SINGAPORE: Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh has warned Workers' Party members they must work as a team if they are to achieve their goal of having elected opposition Members of Parliament ...
Asia One17d
WP engaged commercial parties to help in candidate screening for GE2025, says Pritam
SINGAPORE – The Workers’ Party (WP ... The party’s secretary-general Pritam Singh, who is Leader of the Opposition, said this in what he described as an “election speech” delivered ...
The Independent Singapore2d
Pritam Singh’s announcement that WP engaged commercial parties for candidate screening greeted with approval
Mr Singh, Singapore’s first officially designated Leader of the Opposition, added at the Workers’ Party members’ forum on Jan 11: “Of course, none of these measures are foolproof, nor can they ...
The Straits Times17d
Workers’ Party engaged commercial parties to help in candidate screening for GE2025: Pritam
SINGAPORE – The Workers’ Party (WP ... The party’s secretary-general Pritam Singh, who is Leader of the Opposition, said this in what he described as an “election speech” delivered ...
East Asia Forum issued Pofma order over multiple false statements relating to S’pore governance
The Australia-based platform will be required to carry a correction notice at the top of the article. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Business Times18d
Workers’ Party engaged commercial parties to help in candidate screening for GE2025: Pritam
The party’s secretary-general Pritam Singh, who is Leader of the Opposition ... of the elected members of Parliament must be opposition MPs,” he said. Singh also pointed to Singapore’s multi-racial ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore15d
Australia-based East Asia Forum website issued POFMA order over article on Singapore's governance
SINGAPORE: Australia-based academic website East Asia Forum has been ordered to publish a correction notice on an article ...
Channel NewsAsia Singapore29d
Opposition MPs raise questions including why NRIC unmasking issue was not brought to parliament earlier
SINGAPORE: Opposition Members of Parliament ... Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh (WP-Aljunied) questioned why the matter of unmasking NRIC numbers was not brought to parliament earlier.