Presidential candidate Tharman Shanmugaratnam waves to his supporters at the nomination center for the upcoming presidential election in Singapore on Aug. 22, 2023. Singapore will hold polls for the presidential election on Sept. 1, Returning Officer Tan Meng Dui announced on Tuesday after three...
Singapore is a unitaryparliamentary democracybased on the Westminster model. The president is head of state; until 1991 the largely ceremonial post of president was filled by parliamentary election, but in that year the constitution wasamendedto allow for the direct popular election of the president...
Continued criticism of the high salaries, however, prompted the government in 2012 to cut the pay of ministers (including the prime minister) by about one-third and that of Singapore’s president by half. In November 2023 Lee announced his intention to step down before the 2025 general ...
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though fewer Chinese are travelling than before the pandemic, Chinese account for the bulk of visitors to Thailand, which launched its visa waiver in September, and tourism authorities there say they expect 177,000 Chinese tourists for the Lunar New Year holiday, more than thr...
Malaysian Public Health Physicians Association president Datuk Dr Zainal Ariffin Omar also said that masking should not be made mandatory but strongly encouraged. “I think the public will not be too receptive if mandatory masking and added regulations are imposed,” he said. ...
therefore surprised by the relatively strong showing by opposition parties in the 2011 parliamentary elections, in which the parties won six seats outright. Later that year, Tony Tan, the PAP-backed candidate for the largely ceremonial office of president, barely won election over his three ...