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LATEST GE2025 NEWS

"Fat Kids Are Harder to Kidnap: The Musical" pokes fun at our political and cultural quirks.
LIFE & CULTURE

Miss GE2025? Sketch show revives election’s funniest moments

Satire, song and Singapore politics collide in Fat Kids Are Harder to Kidnap: The Musical

PM Wong urges MPs to be shrewd in assessing the motives of people who seek to get close to them.

MPs must separate business and politics, be wary of conflicts of interest: PM Wong

Both in conduct and perception, they must ‘stand above any hint of favour or influence’, he says

Election candidates in Singapore are required under the law to declare how much they spent and what the money was used for.

First tranche of GE2025 candidate expenses published, with highest spending being over S$100,000

Besides their expenses, candidates also have to declare how much they received from donors.

Today’s uncertain and turbulent global environment is in many ways “a moment of truth for Asean”, PM Wong warned.

Not contradictory for individual Asean members to engage US on tariffs: PM Wong

While Asean may not be ‘uppermost’ on the US’ mind, the bloc will welcome engagement by the superpower when it is ready, he says

Acting Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow and SBF chairman Teo Siong Seng join the task force.

Changes to Singapore’s tariff task force after Cabinet reshuffle, SBF leadership change

Acting Transport Minister Jeffrey Siow replaces former minister for national development Desmond Lee

The newly appointed Minister of State for Defence continues to be assistant secretary-general at the National Trades Union Congress.

Tampines Changkat MP Desmond Choo resigns from SBS Transit’s board after Cabinet appointment

[SINGAPORE] Member of Parliament for Tampines Changkat single-member constituency (SMC) Desmond Choo resigned from the board of SBS Transit on Monday (May 26).

President Tharman Shanmugaratnam (third from left) and Chief Justice Sundaresh Menon (fourth from left) look on as PM Lawrence Wong is sworn in at the Istana. At the ceremony, PM Wong laid out the priorities for the new term of government.

New Cabinet’s priority is to secure Singapore ‘an assured place in this changed world’: PM Wong

The country has an advantage as the international community and investors would have noted the strong mandate obtained in the GE, he adds

Singapore’s Cabinet changes at a glance

Singapore’s Cabinet changes at a glance

Following the May 3 General Election, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong unveiled his Cabinet on May 21.

If both PM Wong (right) and DPM Gan are absent, one of the three coordinating ministers will be appointed as acting prime minister.

No second DPM, nine new officeholders in Singapore’s post-GE Cabinet reshuffle

Six full ministerial portfolios change hands, with Prime Minister Lawrence Wong remaining finance minister

Ng made his return to Parliament in GE2025, winning Jalan Kayu SMC with 51.47 per cent of the total valid votes.

Ng Chee Meng not in Cabinet after asking for time to focus on MP, NTUC duties

This is after he addressed photos of him with Fujian gang’s Su Haijin and an anecdote from his time as education minister

Prime Minister Lawrence Wong speaking at the press conference after the results of GE2025. He has highlighted the importance of renewal.
THINKING ALOUD

Putting together a new Cabinet in an uncertain world

Is a major reshuffle still on the cards, or will continuity win out?

Workers' Party candidates Andre Low (left) and Eileen Chong will take the two Non-Constituency MP seats in Singapore's next Parliament.
SINGAPORE GE2025

GE2025: Workers’ Party’s Andre Low, Eileen Chong to fill NCMP seats

[SINGAPORE] Workers’ Party (WP) candidates Andre Low and Eileen Chong will fill the two available Non-Constituency Member of Parliament (NCMP) seats in Singapore’s next Parliament, the Elections Depar...

PAP largely avoided speechifying, and canvassed broader issues at rallies and TV, mainly by PM Wong speaking at centralised, national platforms.
THE POLITICS THAT MATTERS TO BUSINESS

Not insular politics but glocal

The global turmoil and connections to local and national issues in Singapore are standout factors that made a difference in the general elections