SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/ANN): Singapore leaders have expressed shock at the violence that has broken out in the United States, after supporters of US President Donald Trump stormed the US Capitol.
‘The Washington Spring’ or just a blip? How Asia saw the chaos of Trump supporters storming US Capitol
In a region where US support for anti-government protesters in Thailand and Hong Kong rankles for some, there is a mixture of sadness and mockery
Some say the scenes have turned the world’s most powerful country into a ‘laughing stock’; others say it shows a democracy that still needs to ‘mature’
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Singapore There has been much negative reaction to a question posed on Monday (Jan 4) by former Workers’ Party (WP) election candidate Bernard Chen Jiaxi on the treatment of parliamentary questions, after Speaker of Parliament Tan Chuan-Jin took to Facebook to explain the process and to remark that Mr Chen was trying to make an insinuation about it.
One of the harshest critics of Mr Chen has been former Nominated Member of Parliament (NMP) Calvin Cheng.
Mr Chen was the WP candidate in MacPherson Single-Member Constituency in the 2015 General Election. He lost to the People’s Action Party’s Tin Pei Ling in a three-cornered fight in that GE. He has since thanked the Speaker for the clarification and apologised to the MPs concerned. He has also said that he is no longer in politics.