(AFP) AN opposition candidate has won by a landslide in a Singapore by-election as voters handed a rebuke to the ruling party.
The poll was widely seen as a referendum on the government's recent reforms.
Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and other PAP big guns had gone all out to campaign for the ruling party candidate, Desmond Choo, but in the end failed to win control of the ward, which has been in opposition hands for the past 21 years. Full story
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