GE2025: Meet 3 new PAP candidates in ST's noon podcast livestream
Join your host - ST correspondent Natasha Ann Zachariah - in ST's podcast at a new time slot.
Follow our live coverage here.
The 2025 Singapore General Election is in full swing. Political parties confirmed their line-ups across the island on April 23 during Nomination Day, with Polling Day next up on May 3.
The Usual Place - a podcast by The Straits Times - now moves from a weekly show to a half-hour daily livestream at noon from April 24 till May 1, a day before Cooling-off Day.
Host and ST correspondent Natasha Ann Zachariah will share a wrap of what happened the night before, as well as what's to come in the next few days. There will be analysts featured, and even some ST reporters who have been covering the ground so far.
But first up, on the living room couch with her in today's (April 24) livestream are three candidates from PAP: Mr Dinesh Vasu Dash, 50, part of the party's East Coast GRC team, Mr Daniel Liu, 40, part of its Aljunied GRC team, and Ms Valerie Lee, 39, part of its team contesting the newly created Pasir Ris-Changi GRC.
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