None other than the most literate man in the Parliament - VB.
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My Guess for next pm SG
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How come not Pritam Singh? Isn't he leader of WP?
Oh yeah.....Singapore not ready for Indian PM.
Ya, you're right I was too excited when those thoughts arrived and inadvertently left out the leader of the band.
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Would you agree then that subconsciously Singaporean Chinese still see the PM to be a Chinese person? I think this is true.
CECA might change this in the next 30 years.
CECA will rise and rule if those in power insist on being politically correct
Good guess and I think so too. His name has not been dragged through m&d with the pandemic. COVID has exposed the worst of the new generation of "leeders" laying bare their lack of courage and foresight in moving Sinkeepoo forward.
If the MIW was not so racist to say we are not ready for an Indian PM, I would have liked to see Tharman be PM. He is clearly head and shoulders above anyone else in MIW, that is if you want to compare the best of the worst....
I second that!
Laksaboy does know many things!
minority eat camel shit
Covid has exposed the Dumb & Dumber duo for their sheer incompetence. Chan Chun Sing must be damn shiok now.
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Faris Mokhtar
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Philip Heijmans
29 September 2021, 05:00 GMT+8Updated on 29 September 2021, 09:11 GMT+8
A couple hugs under a closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance camera in Marina Bay in Singapore on April 2, 2020, as the government slowly tightens restrictions to combat the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.
Photographer: ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP
Senior members of Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party are concerned that mixed signals from the country’s virus task force are giving the appearance of divisions that could lead to rare infighting, people familiar with the situation said.
The party cadres, who decide which individuals are admitted to the PAP’s top decision making body, were concerned perceptions of a split could spur members to choose sides in the informal contest to succeed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, whose plans to step aside were delayed amid the pandemic after his heir-apparent bowed out earlier this year. They said the prime minister or another senior member should take charge and show decisiveness, according to the people.
Lawrence Wong
Photographer: Lauryn Ishak/Bloomberg
Lee’s disrupted succession plan — unusual in a country used to orderly transitions — has added more pressure on the PAP as it looks to keep the economy on track while dealing with rising concerns about foreign workers in the financial hub. Although the party prolonged its nearly six-decade rule in an election last year, the opposition gained a record number of seats.
While the virus task force and Lee’s cabinet make key decisions and implement them as a team, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong and Health Minister Ong Ye Kung have noticeably focused on different aspects of the pandemic response in recent public comments as the country announced stop-start changes in its reopening plan. Wong has generally appeared to favor tighter measures to contain the virus, while Ong is seen as a greater advocate for opening. Both are regarded as prime contenders to one day take power from Lee.
The disquiet in the party reflects a broader debate within Singapore society about the pace of opening up, even as it boasts one of the world’s highest vaccination rates. The Southeast Asian financial hub has sought to balance the need to resume international travel and domestic activity with keeping overall mortality rate low, leading to abrupt shifts in policy on issues like working from home and dining out.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Monday, Wong denied any divisions, saying the task force carefully deliberates all decisions and “definitely” operates by consensus. He appeared to align more clearly with Ong, saying the country would continue to reopen even as officials looked to keep the caseload contained while augmenting hospital capacity to handle 5,000 daily new cases or more.
Ong Ye Kung
Photographer: Paul Miller/Bloomberg
After targeting zero cases for most of the pandemic, Singapore has started to tolerate more. It saw 2,236 new cases on Tuesday, a new record tally.
“We do not take the trust that people have in the government for granted at all,” Wong said.
Ong, the Prime Minister’s Office and the PAP didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on the perceived differences of opinion and whether Lee was considering changes to the virus task force.
“Having a clear leadership may work better — either Lee or his senior ministers should take charge,” Inderjit Singh, a former PAP lawmaker, said by phone. “The focus should be to tackle the pandemic and not a means to decide on selecting the future prime minister.”
For more on Singapore’s politics, read:
Wong and Ong both rose to the fore as potential successors to Lee after his designated heir, Heng Swee Keat, shocked Singapore by stepping aside in April. At the time, Lee said the goal was to identify a successor among younger leaders before the next election due in 2025.
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Singapore Virus Debate Sowing Rare Disquiet in Ruling Party
Anxiety and confusion is growing as infections climb despite Singapore having one of the world’s highest vaccination rates.By
Faris Mokhtar
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Philip Heijmans
29 September 2021, 05:00 GMT+8Updated on 29 September 2021, 09:11 GMT+8
A couple hugs under a closed circuit television (CCTV) surveillance camera in Marina Bay in Singapore on April 2, 2020, as the government slowly tightens restrictions to combat the spread of the COVID-19 novel coronavirus.
Photographer: ROSLAN RAHMAN/AFP
Senior members of Singapore’s ruling People’s Action Party are concerned that mixed signals from the country’s virus task force are giving the appearance of divisions that could lead to rare infighting, people familiar with the situation said.
The party cadres, who decide which individuals are admitted to the PAP’s top decision making body, were concerned perceptions of a split could spur members to choose sides in the informal contest to succeed Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, whose plans to step aside were delayed amid the pandemic after his heir-apparent bowed out earlier this year. They said the prime minister or another senior member should take charge and show decisiveness, according to the people.
Lawrence Wong
Photographer: Lauryn Ishak/Bloomberg
Lee’s disrupted succession plan — unusual in a country used to orderly transitions — has added more pressure on the PAP as it looks to keep the economy on track while dealing with rising concerns about foreign workers in the financial hub. Although the party prolonged its nearly six-decade rule in an election last year, the opposition gained a record number of seats.
While the virus task force and Lee’s cabinet make key decisions and implement them as a team, Finance Minister Lawrence Wong and Health Minister Ong Ye Kung have noticeably focused on different aspects of the pandemic response in recent public comments as the country announced stop-start changes in its reopening plan. Wong has generally appeared to favor tighter measures to contain the virus, while Ong is seen as a greater advocate for opening. Both are regarded as prime contenders to one day take power from Lee.
The disquiet in the party reflects a broader debate within Singapore society about the pace of opening up, even as it boasts one of the world’s highest vaccination rates. The Southeast Asian financial hub has sought to balance the need to resume international travel and domestic activity with keeping overall mortality rate low, leading to abrupt shifts in policy on issues like working from home and dining out.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV on Monday, Wong denied any divisions, saying the task force carefully deliberates all decisions and “definitely” operates by consensus. He appeared to align more clearly with Ong, saying the country would continue to reopen even as officials looked to keep the caseload contained while augmenting hospital capacity to handle 5,000 daily new cases or more.
Ong Ye Kung
Photographer: Paul Miller/Bloomberg
After targeting zero cases for most of the pandemic, Singapore has started to tolerate more. It saw 2,236 new cases on Tuesday, a new record tally.
“We do not take the trust that people have in the government for granted at all,” Wong said.
Ong, the Prime Minister’s Office and the PAP didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment on the perceived differences of opinion and whether Lee was considering changes to the virus task force.
“Having a clear leadership may work better — either Lee or his senior ministers should take charge,” Inderjit Singh, a former PAP lawmaker, said by phone. “The focus should be to tackle the pandemic and not a means to decide on selecting the future prime minister.”
For more on Singapore’s politics, read:
- Singapore Braces for a Leap of Faith in Its Covid Strategy
- Singapore Grapples With Reopening Plans as Its Rivals Move On
- Singapore Faces Biggest-Ever Succession Planning Challenge
- Why Singapore’s Ruling Party Easily Wins Big in Every Election
Wong and Ong both rose to the fore as potential successors to Lee after his designated heir, Heng Swee Keat, shocked Singapore by stepping aside in April. At the time, Lee said the goal was to identify a successor among younger leaders before the next election due in 2025.
As the main public face of Singapore’s virus response last year, Wong won plaudits for speaking clearly to reassure the public and acting decisively to stem a surge in infections in foreign worker dorms. When he became finance minister after Heng stepped aside, Ong became a co-chair as health minister and the team presided over a vaccination campaign that has now inoculated more than four in every five people — a feat that other developed nations have struggled to achieve.
An elderly resident waits to receive her Covid-19 vaccine in Singapore, on Sept. 25.
Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg
Yet views between Wong and Ong appeared to diverge shortly after the task force drew up plans to reopen more when 80% of the population was vaccinated. In July, Ong said Singapore must find ways to live with the virus and it would not be “unusual at all” to have 200 cases or more per day.
But by Sept. 3, that resolve was tested with daily infections climbing higher than 200. Wong then made it clear the government would keep current rules and not make new opening moves. The government implemented more regular testing for some workers and expanded home recovery for Covid-19 patients to prevent hospitals from getting overwhelmed.
In the middle of the month, Ong called the jump in infections a “rite of passage” for nations that have resumed some semblance of normalcy. That stirred discontent, with more than 6,300 people signing a petition calling for Ong to resign. Others have taken to social media to voice their frustrations with home recovery arrangements and post satirical memes.
“For friends who know my phone numbers, they text me all the time and give me that feedback, but for every one of them I also get another one to say ‘why don’t we lock down,’” Ong said during a health summit in mid-September in response to a question on whether the government was being too cautious about reopening. “So, there is a range of risk appetites around Singapore.”
Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew in 1969.
Photographer: Michael Stroud/Archive Photos
A survey by Milieu Insight found that 52% of Singaporeans felt the latest restrictions on social gatherings were “just right,” with 25% saying they were too strict and the rest calling them too lax, the Straits Times reported on Tuesday.
“The differences in approaches and tone have been magnified in large part because of the public awareness” that Wong and Ong are frontrunners to become prime minister, said Nydia Ngiow, Singapore-based senior director at BowerGroupAsia, a strategic policy advisory firm.
Such publicly divergent views would usually be unheard of for a party used to the strong-arm leadership of its founding father Lee Kuan Yew, according to Bilveer Singh, associate professor at the National University of Singapore’s department of political science.
“In the late 1970’s Lee Kuan Yew said, ‘give clear signals — don’t confuse people,” Singh said. “This is the master talking. Now, somehow or another, I think the PAP failed here.”
(Updates with Singapore’s latest virus tally showing a new record. An earlier version of this story corrected the size and scope of the virus cases on Monday.)
An elderly resident waits to receive her Covid-19 vaccine in Singapore, on Sept. 25.
Photographer: Ore Huiying/Bloomberg
Yet views between Wong and Ong appeared to diverge shortly after the task force drew up plans to reopen more when 80% of the population was vaccinated. In July, Ong said Singapore must find ways to live with the virus and it would not be “unusual at all” to have 200 cases or more per day.
But by Sept. 3, that resolve was tested with daily infections climbing higher than 200. Wong then made it clear the government would keep current rules and not make new opening moves. The government implemented more regular testing for some workers and expanded home recovery for Covid-19 patients to prevent hospitals from getting overwhelmed.
In the middle of the month, Ong called the jump in infections a “rite of passage” for nations that have resumed some semblance of normalcy. That stirred discontent, with more than 6,300 people signing a petition calling for Ong to resign. Others have taken to social media to voice their frustrations with home recovery arrangements and post satirical memes.
“For friends who know my phone numbers, they text me all the time and give me that feedback, but for every one of them I also get another one to say ‘why don’t we lock down,’” Ong said during a health summit in mid-September in response to a question on whether the government was being too cautious about reopening. “So, there is a range of risk appetites around Singapore.”
Prime Minister of Singapore, Lee Kuan Yew in 1969.
Photographer: Michael Stroud/Archive Photos
A survey by Milieu Insight found that 52% of Singaporeans felt the latest restrictions on social gatherings were “just right,” with 25% saying they were too strict and the rest calling them too lax, the Straits Times reported on Tuesday.
“The differences in approaches and tone have been magnified in large part because of the public awareness” that Wong and Ong are frontrunners to become prime minister, said Nydia Ngiow, Singapore-based senior director at BowerGroupAsia, a strategic policy advisory firm.
Such publicly divergent views would usually be unheard of for a party used to the strong-arm leadership of its founding father Lee Kuan Yew, according to Bilveer Singh, associate professor at the National University of Singapore’s department of political science.
“In the late 1970’s Lee Kuan Yew said, ‘give clear signals — don’t confuse people,” Singh said. “This is the master talking. Now, somehow or another, I think the PAP failed here.”
(Updates with Singapore’s latest virus tally showing a new record. An earlier version of this story corrected the size and scope of the virus cases on Monday.)
Anyone miss having a real leader like LKY now? Lol
Who will be PM is basically determined by who holds the General Secretary position in PAP and that itself is the product of backroom PAP cadre politics and doesn't have much to do with public perception. I think people are reading too much into public appearances of the candidates.
Having said that, I have always maintained that who goes up does not matter as all three are turnkey products of the Singapore bureaucracy. and LHL will still be holding the keys. For that I think CCS will be the best among the three as he seems to be the anointed successor within PAP very early on and there is less risk of infighting if he becomes PM.
Other than the fact that all three are colorless bureaucrats without real leadership:
CCS - Tends to say the wrong things at the wrong time, meme generator
LW - Peaceful lackluster coordinator seen trying to please everyone whenever there's difficulty
OYK - Desperado show off trying to hog the limelight and emphasize he's the one in charge at every opportunity
Having said that, I have always maintained that who goes up does not matter as all three are turnkey products of the Singapore bureaucracy. and LHL will still be holding the keys. For that I think CCS will be the best among the three as he seems to be the anointed successor within PAP very early on and there is less risk of infighting if he becomes PM.
Other than the fact that all three are colorless bureaucrats without real leadership:
CCS - Tends to say the wrong things at the wrong time, meme generator
LW - Peaceful lackluster coordinator seen trying to please everyone whenever there's difficulty
OYK - Desperado show off trying to hog the limelight and emphasize he's the one in charge at every opportunity
This is why ccs posted into moe.
