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SINGAPORE: To celebrate Deepavali this year, Singapore’s largest opposition party, the Workers’ Party, distributed goodie bags again, as they have done over the years. In an Instagram post, party chair Sylvia Lim thanked the “generous hearts of benefactors and volunteers” who made the goodie bag distribution over the previous weekend possible. “Bags of food items, spices, and decorations come in handy as our families prepare for the celebrations,” she noted, adding a “special thanks to Aram Living,” which is a non-profit voluntary welfare organisation focused on poverty relief in Singapore…

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SINGAPORE: This year’s Deepavali greetings from Workers’ Party chief Pritam Singh were extra special, as they included a clip of him learning how to cook puris. The lesson came courtesy of chef, cookbook author and former restaurateur Dhershini Govin Winodan , who had been introduced to the opposition leader some years ago by her good friend Linda, one of the WP volunteers at Eunos, the ward Mr Singh has been representing in Parliament since 2011. Mr Singh had joined Ms Dhershini in her kitchen to make the deep-fried flatbread, which he wrote: “children and all foodies in particular…

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