Plaque containing anti-smoking message installed at smoking samsui woman mural

Part of the plaque reads: "Smoking has been shown to be extremely harmful to one's health."

A plaque was installed at the mural of a samsui woman smoking a cigarette. (Photo: CNA)

Ng Hong Siang
Rachel Lim

11 Jul 2025 

SINGAPORE: A plaque bearing an anti-smoking message has been installed at the site of the smoking samsui woman mural in Chinatown, which garnered debate last year.

Megan Khung deserved better. It takes all of us to keep other children like her safe

 Video: "Hope she rots in hell..." Worst Mom Ever

Megan Khung died after her mother Foo Li Ping's boyfriend Wong Shi Xiang punched her in the stomach.  
PHOTOS: CCXXCXCX/INSTAGRAM, SHIN MIN DAILY NEWS READER, INSTAGRAM

Theresa Tan

APR 11, 2025

The death of four-year-old Megan Khung, who suffered horrific abuse at the hands of her mother and her former boyfriend, has shocked many Singaporeans.

Topmost on people’s minds are these questions: Why did Megan have to die? What more could the child protection authorities and social service agencies have done to save the child?

Ninety Day Pause on US Tariffs... Trump didn't just flinched. He ducked!

Trump stuns with 90-day tariff pause but hits China even harder with 125% rate

Trump tariffs: PSP calls for Singapore to seek new trade deal with US, work to 'address concerns'

PSP secretary-general Leong Mun Wai said the party had no intention of "downplaying" the new tariffs

A cargo ship is seen docked at Pasir Panjang port terminal in Singapore on Feb 3, 2025. 

(Photo: AFP/Roslan Rahman)

09 Apr 2025 

SINGAPORE: The Progress Singapore Party (PSP) on Wednesday (Apr 9) called on the government to secure a new trade deal with the United States in response to sweeping new tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump last week.

Such discussions may include “making adjustments to internal policies or making strategic investments in the US”, said PSP secretary-general Leong Mun Wai in a Facebook post.

Lawrence Wong on implications of US tariffs for Singapore

PM Lawrence Wong on implications of US tariffs for Singapore | Full video

Trump is a moron who doesn't understand Tariffs. Sure, if the tariff makes imports more expensive, the exporting countries will probably sell less to the US. BUT, the US citizens/residents will pay MORE for the goods they need. So a microwave oven that used to cost $100, would now cost $130 or more. And the common folk will have to pay that price. 

About "Signalgate"

Video: Signalgate. It's Worse Than You Think. || Peter Zeihan

The Atlantic magazine publishes US attack plan mistakenly shared in chat group

MAR 27, 2025

WASHINGTON – The Atlantic magazine on March 26 published what it said was the entire text of a chat group mistakenly shared with a journalist by top US national security officials laying out plans of an imminent attack on Yemen.

Activist group 'targeting and disrupting' PAP Meet-The-People Sessions

Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam speaking with two activists outside his Meet-The-People Session in 

Chong Pang on Mar 12, 2025, with one of them pointing a middle finger. 

(Photos: Facebook/K Shanmugam Sc)

The group turned up at Home Affairs and Law Minister K Shanmugam’s Chong Pang branch in Nee Soon GRC on Wednesday (Mar 12) evening, the minister said in a social media post.

Fabian Koh
13 Mar 2025

SINGAPORE: A group of people has been going to People's Action Party (PAP) Meet-The-People Sessions (MPS) to be "deliberately confrontational, create incidents, try and provoke", said Mr K Shanmugam, who posted on Thursday (Mar 13) footage of one such disruption that took place the day before at his ward in Chong Pang.

Singapore to buy new submarines, infantry fighting vehicles and maritime patrol aircraft for the SAF

Mike Yeo
MAR 03, 2025

SINGAPORE – Singapore plans to procure two new submarines, and new infantry fighting vehicles with anti-drone capabilities, as well as replace its maritime patrol aircraft in the coming years.

These hardware upgrades are part of the Singapore Armed Forces’ (SAF) plan for a military that is fit for Singapore’s security purposes, especially amid a fast-changing global order, said Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen on March 3 during the debate on the Ministry of Defence’s (Mindef) budget.

Govt blocks Income-Allianz deal (acquisition by Allianz)

 

Singapore blocks Income-Allianz deal but leaves door open if concerns over public interest are fully addressed

The Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth says it is not confident that the proposed transaction would not affect Income, or the co-op movement as a whole to carry out its social mission.

German insurer Allianz announced in July it was planning to buy a majority stake in Singapore's Income Insurance.
(Photos: CNA/Try Sutrisno Foo, Reuters)

Ang Hwee Min

14 Oct 2024

 

SINGAPORE: The Singapore government has intervened to stop the proposed deal between Income Insurance and German insurer Allianz.

New "United Front"? Chinese Agents in South East Asia?

Firstpost is an India-based, obviously biased, anti-Chinese, news channel. So they would highlight or feature any news item that would put China in a bad light. But they do also cover the news about China, like this story about Linda Sun and Alice Guo.

Singapore No. 1 again in world ranking on government effectiveness

Singapore edged out Denmark, Finland, Switzerland and Norway, which were ranked second to fifth, respectively. ST PHOTO: GIN TAY

Jean Iau

MAY 15, 2024

SINGAPORE Singapore has topped a ranking that tracks the effectiveness of more than 100 governments around the world for the second consecutive year.

It edged out Denmark, Finland, Switzerland and Norway – which ranked second to fifth, respectively – in the fourth edition of the Chandler Good Government Index (CGGI) released on May 15. South Korea (20th) is the only other Asian country in the top 20.

This is Singapore. This is what I Identify with.

 A twenty minute interview with two Naturalised Citizens.

One was born in Shanghai China, came to Singapore in 1997, then applied for Citizenship in mid-2000 (2004 or 2005). 

The other was born in Malaysia, grew up in Malaysia, studied there, but completed his education in the UK, worked there for a while before being sent to this part of the world, and worked from Singapore for some time and became a citizen in 2011.

Singapore's response to Economist's "sneering" article about Singapore's leadership transition

First, Shanmugam response:

So the Economist noted that Lawrence Wong would only be the 4th PM in 59 years. Whereas, anybody knows a true and thriving democracy like, for example, the UK should burn through PMs like they were past their "best before" date.

PM Lee to step down: Key milestones of his political career

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at a Merdeka Generation Appreciation ceremony at the ITE Central, on June 2, 2019. 
Raj Nadarajan/TODAY

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced that he will hand over the premiership to his deputy Lawrence Wong
Mr Wong will be sworn in on May 15, 2024 at 8pm at the Istana
TODAY looks at the key milestones and events of Mr Lee's illustrious political career

Singapore's 4th PM handover.

 

Lawrence Wong to take over as Singapore Prime Minister from Lee Hsien Loong on May 15

Mr Lee has been Prime Minister since 2004.

How Deng and his heirs misunderstood Singapore

MARK R THOMPSON 

01 FEB, 2019



As official China celebrates the four decades of “reform and opening” that began in late 1978 to early 1979, it is instructive to recall the role Singapore played in this process. The fulsome eulogies for Lee Kuan Yew offered by Chinese officials in 2015, beginning with Xi Jinping himself (who has been noticeably less enthusiastic in his praise for Deng Xiaoping given China’s top leader’s “family feud” over who deserves the most credit for the reforms), are just the most obvious indication that Lee and the “Singapore model” more generally have played (quite literally) an oversized role in China’s rapid transition from Maoism to “Market-Leninism”. Appropriately, Lee was honoured late last year as one of the foreigners who helped China most in its reform process.

The future of ‘communist capitalism’ in China

The question of whether Xi-ism is killing Deng-ism is growing 

MARTIN WOLF

MARCH 13 2024 

What is the economic future of China? This question raises many specific issues, notably China’s persistent macroeconomic imbalances, the threat of population decline and worsening relations with important parts of the outside world, above all, an increasingly hostile US. But underneath all of these lies a deeper one: is “communist capitalism”, that seemingly self-contradicting invention of Deng Xiaoping, inexorably fading away under Xi Jinping? Will China’s regime ossify and, in the end, collapse, as the Soviet Union did? 

Iswaran - Corruption charges - Jan 2024 and Mar 2024

Iswaran gets 8 new charges of obtaining S$19,000 in valuables such as whisky, Brompton bike from construction firm boss

Iswaran pleaded not guilty to the new charges. He now faces 35 charges in all.

Govt tells Israeli embassy to remove Facebook post that was an 'astonishing attempt to rewrite history', says Shanmugam

Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam speaking to reporters on Monday (March 25) about a Facebook post by
the Israeli embassy in Singapore, which local authorities asked to be taken down. Ili Nadhirah Mansor/TODAY

March 25, 2024


SINGAPORE — Singapore authorities told the Israeli embassy to remove a post made on its Facebook page on Sunday (March 24) that Minister for Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam called an "astonishing attempt to rewrite history".

The post was “insensitive”, “inappropriate” and “completely unacceptable” as it carried the risk of undermining safety, security and harmony in Singapore, he said.

How S'pore got Taylor Swift to perform here

Deal-making.

Belmont Lay

February 25, 2024

So, just how did Singapore get American pop queen Taylor Swift to perform six concerts at one shot here from March 2 to 9, 2024, making this country the only Southeast Asian stop of her tour?

In the wake of public interest, The Straits Times and CNA have shed some light on the process.

Here's the timeline.