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3 key areas Raeesah Khan’s testimony differs from Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh’s account

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SINGAPORE - Further questions have been raised about the incident involving former Sengkang GRC MP Raeesah Khan lying in Parliament, after she and other Workers' Party members gave evidence to a parliamentary committee on Thursday (Dec 2) and Friday. Ms Khan told the Committee of Privileges chaired by Speaker Tan Chuan-Jin that senior WP leaders Pritam Singh, Sylvia Lim and Faisal Manap had advised her to stick to the lie she had told in Parliament on Aug 3. This was among a number of revelations contained in a special report that the committee presented to Parliament on Friday. Here are three key areas where differences arose between what Ms Khan and the other WP members told the committee and what Mr Singh said during a press conference on Thursday. 1. On the WP disciplinary panel and Ms Khan's resignation Mr Singh told the media that the WP central executive committee (CEC) on Nov 2 had agreed to form a disciplinary panel to "look into the admissions made by Raeesah Khan" the day before. The CEC later deliberated the panel's recommendations and "voted overwhelmingly" that Ms Khan would have been expected to resign, or she would be expelled, he said. Ms Khan, as well as WP member...

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WP leaders told by Raeesah Khan in August she had lied, decided to give her time to deal with matter: Pritam Singh

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SINGAPORE - Leaders of the Workers' Party (WP) were told by their MP Raeesah Khan that she had lied in Parliament, about a week after she made false statements about a sexual assault case in a speech on Aug 3. But the party leaders decided to give her time to deal with the matter because she had also told them she had been a sexual assault victim herself, and had not told her family about it, WP chief Pritam Singh said on Thursday (Dec 2). At the next session of Parliament that she was able to attend, in October, Ms Khan was supposed to clarify the matter. But she did not and, in fact, repeated untruths that were wholly inconsistent with the revelations she had shared with WP leaders Mr Singh, WP chair Sylvia Lim and vice-chair Faisal Manap. Speaking at a press conference two days after the WP announced Ms Khan's resignation from the party and as an MP, Mr Singh said he had asked her to make her best efforts to contact the victim or to contact the individuals involved in the sexual assault case. “Initially, Raeesah stuck to her untruth in her communication with me,” said Mr Singh at a the press conference at the WP headquarters in Geylang. “After being repeatedly pressed, a number ...

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Singapore’s first head of navy Jaswant Singh Gill dies, aged 97

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SINGAPORE - Mr S. Jaswant Singh Gill, Singapore's first head of navy and a pillar of the Sikh community, died last Saturday (Dec 19) at about 10am, aged 97. He was running a fever caused by pneumonia and was being readied to be taken to hospital when he died in his home. He is survived by two sons and four daughters. Mr Gill had come to Singapore with his uncle when he was six, and served in key defence positions in Singapore's fledgling years after fighting for Singapore during Konfrontasi, a conflict between Indonesia and the then Federation of Malaysia which took place between 1963 and 1966. In addition to being Commander of the Singapore Naval Volunteer Force when the British left in 1967, he was the Commanding Officer of Pulau Blakang Mati Camp, the head of the Singapore Armed Forces training department in the general staff division, and the Commander of Tengah Air Base and Changi Air Base. He retired from the Singapore Armed Forces in 1972, with the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. The Republic of Singapore Navy, in a tribute to Mr Gill, said on Facebook on Sunday that it is deeply indebted to the commander. "Just as our white ensign continues to fly daily, his words will be etche...