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The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) launched its General Elections (GE) campaign on 28 April 2020. The Covid19 pandemic has changed Singapore's politico-socio-economic landscape, so the SDP has drawn up 5 focus points to deal with these changes in the immediate and long-terms. These points are covered under their "Four Yes, One No" (4Y1N) campaign.

A 63 year old retiree is currently on trial for allegations of sexually assaulting a 12 year old boy at a Tampines park toilet. Chua Hock Leong, who is married with a daughter, is accused of performing oral sex on the Secondary 1 student in January last year

40 year old PRC national Yang Yin who is currently embroiled in a lawsuit over the $40 million assets of wealthy widow Chung Khin Chun had applied for the unfreezing of his assets under a Mareva injunction. According to his lawyer Joseph Liow, this application comes after Yang was denied his weekly $3,000 allowance that was previously granted to him.

I retired last year at age 59 and, having turned 60 this year, decided to get back into the workforce. I tried applying for positions in various ministries and government agencies. There was usually no reply, except for a handful of rejections, even for positions such as administrative assistant. I have more than 30 years of experience working in a multinational company in the oil industry and have done some lecturing at a polytechnic recently.