Morning Digest, Aug 22
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Morning Digest, Aug 22

Nick Karean
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Tan Kin Lian brushes off concerns over his FB posts about “pretty girls”, says only ‘very small minority’ are bothered by them

 
[caption id="attachment_517586" align="alignnone" width="1236"]Tan Kin Lian Tan Kin Lian FB[/caption]

SINGAPORE: A TikTok video was posted on Sunday (Aug 20), compiling several posts on Facebook in the past from presidential aspirant Tan Kin Lian where he featured or wrote about “pretty girls.”

In response to questions from journalists, Mr Tan appeared to treat it as a non-issue, saying that only a very few people were bothered by his posts. Below is the TikTok from an account called spillthetea.sg, viewed over 217,000 times.

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PM Lee’s National Day Rally speech in 3 minutes

  [caption id="attachment_520854" align="alignnone" width="1660"] Photo: YouTube screengrab / PM Lee[/caption] SINGAPORE: Here are key takeaways from Prime Minister Lee’s National Day Rally 2023 speech in case you missed the full broadcast. Read more here...
 

Soh Rui Yong contemplates voting for Tan Kin Lian to express dissatisfaction with George Goh’s disqualification

 
[caption id="attachment_520782" align="alignnone" width="838"]Tan Kin Lian Photo credit: Khalis Rifhan[/caption]
SINGAPORE — Singapore national marathoner Soh Rui Yong expressed his dissatisfaction on social media after businessman George Goh was denied the certificate of eligibility (COE) for the Presidential Elections. Amidst this backdrop, Soh is contemplating casting his vote for Tan Kin Lian in the upcoming Presidential Election. What may seem like a cheeky and lighthearted remark brings out a deeper meaning and understanding to his post as Soh used a simple and different approach to explain the criteria to qualify as a candidate for the presidential election.

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‘Best we have had in recent years’ — Pritam Singh goes with Eunos residents to Johor for all-you-can-eat Durian Trip

  [caption id="attachment_520874" align="alignnone" width="1440"] Photo: FB screengrab/Pritam Singh[/caption]

SINGAPORE: Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh said in a Sunday (Aug 20) Facebook post that the durians he and some Eunos residents had on a trip the day before to Yong Peng, Johor, “were the best we have had in recent years.”

“Well, when you realise your designated durian stop is also a wholesale/distribution point for durians meant for the community in Bukit Batok, Tampines, Punggol, Jurong, Ang Mo Kio, Serangoon etc. in Singapore, you know you have arrived at the end/start of the equivalent of the durian rainbow!” wrote Mr Singh, who has been representing Eunos at Aljunied GRC since 2011.

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George Yeo confirms PM Lee saw Tan Cheng Bock as a threat

  [caption id="attachment_520747" align="alignnone" width="1295"] Photos: YT screencaptures[/caption]
SINGAPORE: Former Foreign Affairs Minister George Yeo has indicated that Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was not happy with Tan Cheng Bock’s candidacy in the 2011 Presidential Election, in his new book series ‘George Yeo: Musings’. In the third volume of the series, Mr Yeo recounted that after he lost Aljunied GRC to the Workers’ Party in the 2011 general election in May, he was called to PM Lee’s office to discuss the presidential election which was due to be held months later. Read more here...

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