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4 January - Singapore started livestreaming Parliament sessions ; 9 January – Robinsons shuts its last outlet in Raffles City, bringing an end to 162 years of operation since 1858. 16 January – A review on gender equality issues is extended to the second half of 2021 due to strong interest from participants.
Contents. 2020 Singaporean general election. General elections were held in Singapore on Friday, 10 July 2020 to elect 93 members [c] to the Parliament of Singapore across 31 constituencies. [d] Parliament was dissolved and the general election called by President Halimah Yacob on 23 June, on the advice of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. [2]
One major water body in Singapore which used to be polluted is the Singapore River. Mitigation. To combat the country's environmental problems, the Singaporean government first made the Singapore Green Plan in 1992 and a new edition of it in 2012 to continue it. The plan has since been superseded by the Singapore Green Plan 2030 in 2021.
Singaporean politics have been dominated by the People's Action Party (PAP) since the 1959 general election when Lee Kuan Yew became Singapore's first prime minister (Singapore was then a self-governing state within the British Empire). The PAP has been the only ruling party to form the government since then. Singapore joined the Federation of ...
This article presents official statistics gathered during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore . Number of cases (blue) and number of deaths (red) on a logarithmic scale. The Ministry of Health of Singapore has been publishing official numbers on a daily basis since the first confirmed case of SARS-CoV-2 virus on 23 January 2020.
Singapore also employs corporal punishment in the form of caning for numerous criminal offences if committed by males under 50, and this is a mandatory sentence for some offences such as rape and vandalism. Amnesty International maintains that corporal punishment is in itself contrary to human rights, but this has been disputed.
The rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in Singapore have evolved over the decades. Same-sex sexual activity is legal for both males and females; for men it was officially legalised in 2022 after being de facto decriminalised since 2007, and for women it was always legal. Prior to 2022, same-sex sexual activity ...
Status: In force. The Protection from Online Falsehoods and Manipulation Act 2019, commonly abbreviated as POFMA and known colloquially as Fake News Law, [2] is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that enables authorities to tackle the spread of fake news or false information. The law is designed specifically to allow authorities to ...