HER name is Fresh, and she is from China.

Her matronly figure was sheathed in black tights and a gold sequinned top, at least a size too small. But her voice was big, and full of feeling as she crooned the Teresa Teng classic, The Moon Represents My Heart, just for Mr Lim Swee Say.

HER hectic walkabout schedule can sometimes give the impression that Mrs Lina Chiam, 62, is trying to contest two constituencies at once

Three nights a week, she goes door to door at homes in Potong Pasir to talk to residents. And on Saturday morning, for good measure, she adds a visit to stallholders in the neighbourhood market.

SO FAR, there are 12

Of the dozen, five are from the labour movement, three are lawyers, two are in banking, one is a doctor, and the last, a business consultant.

SENIOR Minister S. Jayakumar's imminent retirement from politics caps a storied three decades in Government, during which he had a hand in domestic policy and foreign affairs, and played a key role in issues from religious harmony to climate change

From his ward in Bedok, the academic turned politician anchored East Coast GRC and always relished a contest even when his grassroots activists hoped for a walkover.

THE People's Action Party will be sending more than 20 fresh faces out to electoral battle, with half of them in their 20s and 30s

This makes the Class of 2011 the youngest crop of new PAP candidates since the 1991 General Election.