Ng Wei Kai

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Wei Kai joined The Straits Times in 2020 and covers politics. He also writes Unpacked, a weekly newsletter on Singapore politics and policy.

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Speaker Seah Kian Peng apologises for nodding off while chairing parliamentary proceedings

Speaker of Parliament Seah Kian Peng apologised for the lapse and said he will learn from it and take steps to ensure it does not happen again.

Parliament is not the risk committee for individual firms: Foo Cexiang on SIA’s Air India investment

Foo was criticising Workers’ Party MP Kenneth Tiong’s statement that Parliament is the risk function for the reserves and Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) board is the investment team, calling it “a major leap of logic”.

GE2025 reserve candidate Firdaus Daud deployed to Faishal Ibrahim’s former Kembangan ward

Lawyer and GE2025 reserve candidate Firdaus Daud (left of Tin Pei Ling) with Marine Parade-Braddell Heights GRC MPs at a voucher distribution event on Aug 23.

S’pore and Vietnam agree to deepen leadership exchanges, expand tech cooperation

Foreign Minister Vivian Balakrishnan (second from right) and Vietnam Minister for Foreign Affairs Le Hoai Trung (second from left) exchange the agreements on Aug 25. With them are Coordinating Minister for Public Services Chan Chun Sing (far right) and his Vietnamese counterpart Tran Cam Tu.

Faishal Ibrahim in discussions to return to academia: NUS

Former acting minister-in-charge of Muslim affairs Faishal Ibrahim resigned from political office and as an MP on July 20.

PM Wong announces major reset in family support

Every Singaporean child will get nearly $70,000 in direct financial help, said Prime Minister Lawrence Wong at the National Day Rally.

PAP, WP continue to clash over opposition party’s economic proposals

The WP had tabled a motion on Aug 4 on the future of Singapore’s economy.

NTUC’s first job security chief has two worries: fresh graduates and older PMEs

Caryn Lim, NTUC’s new and first Chief Job Security (Job Security Directorate) at NTUC building on Aug 13.

Costs of Pioneer Generation schemes exceed fund balance by $785m, Govt to top up where needed: Report

The Estimates Committee said the Pioneer Generation Fund would need to be topped up further as the estimated liabilities currently exceeded its fund balance.

NDP2026: A midair song, a stadium of light, one pledge in the final stretch

Singer Jasmine Sokko descended from a cube hung from the stadium’s ceiling to dance in the air above a sea of lights during the National Day Parade at the National Stadium on Aug 9.

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