Talk:Government of Singapore

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September 7, 2009	Good article nominee	Listed

A fact from this article appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "Did you know?" column on June 15, 2009.

The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that the People's Action Party has dominated the Government of Singapore by winning a majority of seats in every general election since 1959?

A fact from this article was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the "On this day..." column on November 19, 2024.

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The government section of the "Outline of Singapore" needs to be checked, corrected, and completed -- especially the subsections for the government branches.

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Thank you. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Boweja (talk • contribs) 18:25, 7 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Technology development agency?

Is there a Singapore Government Technology development agency? None is mentioned in the article.

I heard recently of a "Singapore Government Technology Development Agency" (mentioned in a recent broadcast of The Space Show, (mp3 recording, 28 Dec 2010, @ approx. 43:00 into the recording) when mentioning which government entity in Singapore had signed the memorandum of understanding for use of the Bigelow Aerospace commercial space station facilities, aiming for on-orbit build in 2014/2015. What agency is it and is there an article on Wikipedia about this agency? Cheers. N2e (talk) 06:39, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I haven't heard about this yet, but I imagine it might be the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*Star). By the way, the talk page isn't really for queries of this nature. You might want to try posting them at "Wikipedia:Reference desk" instead. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 08:55, 2 January 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Contradictory?

The government is the executive branch of government? --Huang (talk) 05:31, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

See "Government of Singapore#Terminology". — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 10:36, 10 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Footnotes inquiries

What does "S 142/2009" mean? 175.156.99.200 (talk) 14:31, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It's the citation for a piece of subsidiary legislation. The "S" indicates that the piece of subsidiary legislation was published in the Subsidiary Legislation Supplement of the Government Gazette. The numbers indicate that it was the 142nd piece of subsidiary legislation issued in this Supplement in 2009. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 05:48, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

"The Cabinet is formed by the political party that gains a simple majority in each general election" There isn't a source for this. The footnote is just about GE after five years of parliament. Moreover, it should be: "... that have won the most number of parliamentary seats in each...", totally nothing to do with proportion of votes. 175.156.99.200 (talk) 15:24, 15 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I agree that that passage requires some rephrasing. I'll look into it when I have some time. — Cheers, JackLee ^–talk– 05:48, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Took the liberty of fixing it. — SMUconlaw (talk) 16:51, 25 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Move discussion in progress

There is a move discussion in progress on Talk:Government of New Zealand which affects this page. Please participate on that page and not in this talk page section. Thank you. —RMCD bot 11:31, 31 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, I trimmed the last paragraph as I do feel whether the government is 'good' or 'bad' in different aspects has nothing to do with explaining the day-to-day governance and could possibly come off as original research and opinionated. It's not present in other government articles either, from autocratic states such as Russia to democracies such as Sweden. The entire section seemed bloated previously as well and so I merged the 3rd paragraph with the 2nd. Anyway this is just a minor change in the state of things but I'd just like to point it out in case there are any misunderstandings. 122.11.212.71 (talk) 04:01, 1 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]