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BREAKING: President Tharman Shanmugaratnam has issued the Writ of Election. #GE2025 Here are some key dates to take note of: Nomination Day - Apr 23 Polling Day - May 3 More details: https://cna.asia/42CaXgD

JUST IN: Singapore's Parliament has been dissolved ahead of the announcement of the date of the General Election. Nomination Day will be on Apr 23. https://cna.asia/42CaXgD #GE2025 #singapore

I asked Prime Minister Lawrence Wong why he has decided not to move to another more tightly contested hotspot for the coming #generalelection, after he announced that he would remain in Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC as part of an unchanged four-member slate. After all, the vote pull of a sitting prime minister would certainly be a strategic consideration for the party’s candidate deployment. "Where I stand, I think really doesn't matter,” he said, emphasising that besides being the anchor minister for the GRC, he is also leading the entire People's Action Party into the election as secretary-general (https://lnkd.in/gtubHWE7). Mr Wong also downplayed the impact him being #Singapore’s leader would have on the vote share in his constituency, and added that he does not assume the PAP will automatically win the election — something he also said before he took over the leadership reins last year. The Marsiling-Yew Tee team announcement was the first to be made, as the ruling party began unveiling its finalised slate, a sign that the election is approaching, said Mr Wong. He also shared that this year’s contest will see the largest slate of new faces introduced by the PAP in recent history (https://lnkd.in/gZfbXFh9). Over 30 new candidates will be fielded. For comparison, the 2020 hustings saw 27 newcomers, while the two elections before that had 24 each. Mr Wong also confirmed that some senior Cabinet members, including his predecessor Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong and his deputy Gan Kim Yong, will stand again in the coming contest. The next general election must be held by Nov 23. 🗳️

The next FAS president will be either tech billionaire Forrest Li or Balestier Khalsa vice-chairman Darwin Jalil. It's an opportunity to reset Singapore football, says Edwin Yeo.

One platform dismantled this year hosted 91,000 videos of child sexual abuse and had 1.8 million users worldwide. The scale of such crime is shocking, say three Singapore academics.

From growing up in a wealthy family to losing it all when she was just 15, group CEO and founder of The Parentinc, Roshni Mahtani Cheung, reflects on how her childhood influenced her entrepreneurship journey. On Money Talks' "How I Made It", Roshni tells Andrea Heng how she built her business from scratch, and the money lesson she learnt from her grandfather which she's now teaching her daughter. Listen here: https://cna.asia/4jqT3Ee

"Being neutral does not mean being mute." As US-China tensions flare, former diplomat Walter Woon lays out the case for neutrality.

Mentorship in the office can shape careers in unexpected ways – but only if it’s done well. From navigating soft skills to managing mentor-mentee tensions, Mei Ting Teoh 张媚婷 and her mentor Irene Yong, both from engineering consultancy firm Beca, share tips with Gerald Tan Zi Ping and Tiffany Ang on how to make the most out of this workplace relationship.  Listen here: https://cna.asia/3RggqV3

South Korea votes for a new president on Jun 3. If frontrunner Lee Jae-myung turns away from the US, the alliance could be severely tested, says professor of political science Robert Kelly.

The current geopolitical environment seems ripe for tactics such as foreign interference. It would be foolhardy to think Singapore immune to this threat, says SIIA's Nicholas Fang.