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The 60-year-old, who is part of the WP team contesting in East Coast GRC, lost in Joo Chiat SMC by 388 votes in the watershed 2011 election.

They simply fade away”, Mr Yee said: “I have never left.

Mr Yee has encouraged Mr Sufyan and Ms Paris to join him in becoming full-time MPs if they are elected.

Mr Yee said Mr Singh asked him to lead the party’s East Coast GRC team, given his familiarity with the Joo Chiat ward, which was absorbed into the constituency.

"Four words —criticise first, copy later," said Dr Chee at a rally in Sembawang on Wednesday (April 30).

The first was SDP's proposal on an unemployment insurance scheme which provide retrenched workers with financial assistance and support for re-employment.

He said: "And now in this election, Mr Ong is doing the same thing.

"Mr Ong will tell you that the SDP's proposals are useless and the PAP's the best… and then he will adopt our ideas.

Chee Hong Tat hopes to follow in Dr Ng Eng Hen's footsteps in Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC, where he wants to serve residents until he retires.

The Minister for Transport and incumbent MP for the GRC was speaking at the People's Action Party's (PAP) rally for Bishan-Toa Payoh GRC on Wednesday (April 30).

He also spoke about the completion of the Toa Payoh Integrated Development by 2030, which will include a regional sports centre, polyclinic, public library and town park.

He said that residents told him there were several hawker centres in Toa Payoh, but none in Bishan.

Eleven rallies will be held on Thursday (May 1), the last day of campaigning.

The parties involved are the People's Action Party (PAP), Workers' Party (WP), Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), Progress Singapore Party (PSP), Red Dot United (RDU), People's Power Party (PPP) and independent candidate, Jeremy Tan.

Independent candidate Jeremy Tan will be holding his rally for Mountbatten SMC at the Home of Athletics in Kallang.

The parties involved will be National Solidarity Party, PPP, SDP, People's Alliance for Reform, PSP, RDU, WP and PAP.

"Negative politics" isn't the People's Action Party's (PAP) DNA — uniting Singaporeans is, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said during an interview with the media after his walkabout in Tampines GreenCourt on Wednesday (April 30).

Speaking with the media, PM Wong replied, first explaining that references the WP made in relation to "negative politics" were actually referring to policies.

"I'm referring to a different kind of negative politics, a negative politics where, in the case of the WP in their earlier rally, they targeted Gan Kim Yong the entire night with personal negative attacks," he elaborated, adding that these attacks were "unwarranted".

PM Wong attended the walkabout alongside PAP's Tampines GRC candidates Masagos Zulkifli, Baey Yam Keng, Dr Koh Poh Koon and new faces David Neo and Charlene Chen.

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Then I also served three popes, making the white robes, (for) John Paul II, Benedict and Francis," he added.

He is reluctant to provide new red robes for cardinals at this stage, however, knowing that one of them will end up wearing the papal white.

"Some of them asked for red robes but I refused to do them, not because I am arrogant, but because I told them 'Eminence, will you need this red robe?

Workers’ Party (WP) candidate for Tampines GRC Faisal Manap said that residents of Kaki Bukit in his former constituency of Aljunied GRC will confirm he has served them "fairly and equally".

Responding to a question posed by the media that residents have expressed concerns about mixing religion with politics, Faisal said: "We serve everyone, fairly and equally, regardless of race, language and religion.

WP's Tampines GRC team is helmed by Faisal and consists of new faces Jimmy Tan, Dr Ong Lue Ping, Eileen Chong and Michael Thng.

With just two days of campaigning left, WP's Tampines team was at Tampines Central, interacting with residents, snapping selfies and even signing merchandise.

BRUSSELS — China has decided to lift sanctions on four members of the European Parliament as well as on its subcommittee on human rights, a parliament official told Reuters.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said European Parliament President Roberta Metsola is expected to announce the change on Wednesday (April 30).

The official initially said sanctions would be lifted for four current members and one former member but later said the decision applied only to four current members.

In response to the Chinese sanctions on its members, the European Parliament halted the ratification of the EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment, which had aimed to put EU companies on an equal footing in China.

STOCKHOLM — Swedish police detained a 16-year-old early on Wednesday (April 30) on suspicion of murdering three people in a hair salon in the city of Uppsala, prosecutors said.

We are now gathering information and the police are conducting door-to-door enquiries and interviewing witnesses," the Swedish Prosecution Authority said in a statement.

The court-appointed lawyer for the suspect did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Sweden has suffered from a wave of gang-related violence for more than a decade that has included an epidemic of gun violence.

LONDON — British police said on Wednesday (April 30) they had charged a man with terrorism offences and possession of a bladed weapon after he was arrested on suspicion of trying to get into the Israeli embassy in London.

The Israeli embassy said in a statement that British security forces had prevented "an attempted terror attack" from a man armed with a knife, and no staff or visitors had been injured.

"We thank the British security forces for their immediate response and ongoing efforts to secure the embassy," the statement posted on X said.

"The embassy of Israel will not be deterred by any terror threat and will continue to represent Israel with pride in the UK.".