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PAP makes it even more difficult for SDP to stage rally
13 August 2001
The SDP has applied for a license to stage its National
Day Rally on 26 August 2001 at the Yio Chu Kang Stadium. The Police has
stipulated that the Party has to engage 13 CISCO (Commercial and
Industrial Security Corpn.) officers for crowd control purposes (see
condition no. 11 below). The expenses would have to be borne by the SDP.
This would amount to several thousand dollars. This condition
which has just been recently imposed is completely unacceptable. First,
this rally is a public event to address national issues such as the
current recession. It is not an
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National Day Rally
09 August 2001
The SDP has applied for a public license to stage a
National Day Rally on August 26, 2001, Sunday, at the Yio Chu Kang
Stadium. The application was made on July 18, 2001. SDP Assistant
Secretary-General Wong Hong Toy has written to the Licensing Division to
ask the Police to issue the license without further delay. This is
because with less than two weeks to go before the event, the Party needs
to embark on a publicity blitz. Time is also needed to co-ordinate the
services and equipment that go into staging the rally. The SDP
questions the time taken for th
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Surely you jest, Mr Prime Minister
09 August 2001
In his National Day Message, Mr Goh Chok Tong told
Singaporeans: "Your worries are mine, too." How does the Prime Minister
expect to be taken seriously when he draws an annual salary of $2
million while the average Singaporean is either jobless or faces
imminent retrenchment? While he increased his own salary in 2000
by 14 percent, he cut the CPF of workers in 1999 by 10 percent and now
decides that it cannot be fully restored until an unspecified time in
the future. In his address he failed to tell Singaporeans that the
current recession is a direct conseq
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Chee to launch new book
30 July 2001
