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Singapore PM orders probe into ministers' homes amid public anger

May 24, 2023 4:16 pm

Opposition politician Kenneth Jeyaretnam questioned how the law and home affairs minister, K Shanmugam, and the foreign minister, Vivian Balakrishnan, could afford the market rate for such "pricey" properties.

Singapore will decriminalise sex between men: PM Lee Hsien Loong

August 22, 2022 9:16 am

But he added the government had no intention of changing the city-state's legal definition of marriage - that is, between a man and a woman.

'Storm is gathering': Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong warns of risk of US-China miscalculation

August 08, 2022 6:21 pm

Lee said Singapore would be buffeted by that intense rivalry and tension in the region, which should prepare for a future less peaceful and stable than now.

Singapore PM's remarks on Indian MPs: MEA summons envoy

February 18, 2022 10:01 am

Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong had invoked India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru while arguing how democracy should work in the city-state during a passionate debate in Parliament.

Singapore PM warns that fight against terrorism 'is far from over'

September 11, 2021 9:41 am

Lee Hsien Loong highlighted how this year in Singapore, the authorities arrested two self-radicalised Singaporean youths who were preparing lone-wolf attacks -- one on a synagogue and the other on a mosque.

Amid racist incidents, new law to come up on racial harmony in Singapore

September 05, 2021 9:00 am

An upcoming law on racial harmony will likely introduce new sanctions, including non-punitive ones, to try and shape social behaviour and norms, said Law and Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam on Saturday.

Hope Afghanistan doesn't become 'epicentre of terrorism' again: Singapore PM Lee

August 23, 2021 5:06 pm

Lee, at a press conference here along with visiting US Vice President Kamala Harris, said that America's intervention in the region 20 years ago has stopped terrorist groups from using Afghanistan as a safe base.

Can't slacken in efforts to check COVID-19, says Singapore PM

May 20, 2021 10:20 am

Stressing the need for global cooperation to mitigate supply chain disruptions, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong warned that it would be "very harmful" for every country to make everything onshore.

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Singapore PM receives first dose of COVID-19 vaccine

January 08, 2021 11:31 am

Lee Hsien Loong said broader vaccinations of healthcare workers from public institutions would start on Friday, followed by the elderly next month.

Coronavirus is not the deadliest disease that can befall mankind: Singapore PM

September 03, 2020 5:29 pm

Lee Hsien Loong said that coronavirus will not be Singapore's last public health crisis, and the country should apply lessons it has learnt in managing this disease to prepare for future pandemics.