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PM Wong unveils first full Cabinet: No second DPM, three coordinating ministers named

SINGAPORE: Less than three weeks after the General Election where the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) won a resounding victory, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong announced his first full Cabinet lineup on Wednesday (May 21).
The new Cabinet marks a significant reshuffle that includes three coordinating ministers and confirms Mr Gan Kim Yong as the sole deputy prime minister. It also features 15 full ministers and two acting ministers across the Prime Minister’s Office and 16 ministries.
This is the first complete team formed under Mr Wong since he succeeded Mr Lee Hsien Loong last year.
Mr Wong, who remains the finance minister, also appointed nine new political office holders, drawn from the backbench and among first-term MPs – a number he described as “one of the highest in recent history”.
Mr Wong said he has “a solid team behind me”, highlighting that he has four senior leaders, comprising one deputy and three…
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Gordon Ong unreservedly apologizes to K Shanmugam for continually spreading falsehoods about non-existent affair
Suit against Singapore Minister to be heard in Malaysia after lawyers group wins appeal
The Court of Appeal has reinstated a suit by Lawyers for Liberty (LFL) against the Singapore government over the city-state's attempt to enforce a draconian internet law against the Malaysian rights group.
Three panel judges today overturned a Kuala Lumpur High Court decision in 2020 striking out LFL’s suit against Singapore Home Minister K Shanmugam, paving the way for the suit to be heard in Malaysia.
LFL's suit revolves around Singapore's issuance of a correction direction under its Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act (Pofma), after the group published shocking details of instances of prisoners being executed in a brutal and unlawful manner at Singapore's Changi Prison.
Shanmugam had instructed LFL to amend the statement published on its website, a move condemned by the group as "outrageous".
"Singapore has no business interfering with the freedom of speech of Malaysian citizens making statements within our own country," LFL had said.
Shan and Vivian: If LHY does not apologise, withdraw his allegations and pay damages, WE WILL SUE HIM!!!!!!
GMS: Land sizes of the Ridout Road state properties rented by Shanmugam and Balakrishnan are obscenely huge!
Both K. Shanmugam and Leong Mun Wai were in fact schoolmates from the same lousy school

The monkeys in white tak boleh tahan LMW, call for temporary ceasefire liao haha
Watch: 29 year-old Vivian Balakrishnan debates with newly elected MP K. Shanmugum live on TV
29-year-old Vivian Balakrishnan, a former student activist, debated with newly elected PAP MP K. Shanmugam on Lee Kuan Yew’s remarks that questioned the loyalty of Malay Singaporeans.
@Walter E. KurtzNot forgetting him lying about the TraceTogether program's privacy boundaries.
Given his advanced age, he should consider attempting less strenuous exercise in the future, like collecting cardboards😬