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  • What Is Halimah Yacob’s Biological Descent? Indian Muslim Father + Chinese Mother?

    What Is Halimah Yacob’s Biological Descent? Indian Muslim Father + Chinese Mother?

    So, what is Halimah Yacob’s biological descent? Indian Muslim Father + Chinese Mother? Can anyone verify?

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    There are all sorts of rumors surrounding Halimah. Whilst I do not support her on grounds of not being a Malay per se and the way the constitution was amended to cover her limitations, I am against Halimah bashing.

    Can anyone verify that she was born to a Chinese mother and adopted by a Malay. People in the neighbourhood where she grew up should know. They can help to rubbish this claim if untrue.

    There are also claims that she studied in Singapore Chinese Girls School. Her primary school classmates, school mates and teachers can either confirm or rubbish this claim.

    This claim is substantiated by quoting Halimah herself. She said that from the age of 8 she was raised by the Malay mother. If so, it is asked who raised her before that, Her Chinese mother???

    Also how many Malay parents enrolled their children in Singapore Chinese Girls School in the 60s -70s. If Halimah studied there then her Chinese mother a hawker, must have enrolled her there.

    Halimah will not get my vote. That is my considered choice. I will also not be a bystander and watch wicked lies smear a person. Lies repeated over and over becomes the truth. As level headed Singaporeans we have a responsibility to vindicate Halimah and put the rumours to rest if they are indeed rumours.

     

    Source: Balasubramaniam Murugesu

  • Multiple Channels For Public Feedback On National Day Rally

    Multiple Channels For Public Feedback On National Day Rally

    Singaporeans will have several channels for providing feedback on this year’s National Day Rally speech, to be delivered on Sunday by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.

    These range from dialogue sessions to Facebook chats and public booths, government feedback unit Reach said yesterday.RE

    The public can start sharing their views on Reach’s National Day Rally microsite (www.reach.gov.sg/nationaldayrally2017) on the day of the speech.

    A public forum will be held on the evening of Aug 23, to be chaired by Minister (Prime Minister’s Office) and Second Minister (Manpower and Foreign Affairs) Josephine Teo and Reach chairman and Minister of State (Prime Minister’s Office, Manpower and Foreign Affairs) Sam Tan.

    Two days later, Senior Minister of State (Communications and Information and Education) Janil Puthucheary and Member of Parliament (MacPherson) Tin Pei Ling will host an hour-long Facebook Live chat from 9pm. There will also be other Facebook Live chats and dialogue sessions, as well as radio talk shows that the public can tune in to next week.

    Reach will set up feedback booths after the Rally for Singaporeans to obtain more information on the announcements made and to give their feedback. Details of the locations will be provided on its microsite.

    Meanwhile, members of the public can catch the Rally on television and radio as well as live streams online — on Mr Lee’s and Reach’s Facebook pages, on the Prime Minister’s Office Youtube channel and on Toggle.

    Mr Lee will be speaking in Malay and Mandarin from 6.45pm to 7.30pm and in English from 8.15pm to 9.30pm.

    Mr Lee said on Tuesday in his National Day message that his Rally speech will elaborate on the issues he raised relating to pre-school education, the war on diabetes and the Smart Nation initiative.

     

    Source: http://www.todayonline.com

  • Damanhuri Abas: Here’s How By-Election Should Be Conducted For Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    Damanhuri Abas: Here’s How By-Election Should Be Conducted For Marsiling-Yew Tee GRC

    The Government must call a GRC By-election for MYT to be true to its stated desire to ensure equal Minority representation as it robustly claimed was the basis for having a reserved PE exclusive for Malays. Less it exposes its own hypocrisy to say one thing but do another for clear political interest. Enough of short-changing the Malays pretending to be benevolent when in truth they manipulate the rules and keep moving the goalpost for 52 years.

    If additional cost incurred for one is the concern as some commentators expressed, here is how to simply overcome that. They can always conduct the By-election together with the PE. It only involves MYT GRC and residence from the constituencies affected can go to the polls on that day to vote twice, both for a PE and the MPs for their GRC. Enough time to do so now. Imaginary problem solved. Lets have a By-Election in MYT together with the PE!!

     

    Source: Damanhuri Bin Abas

  • Halimah Yacob Has Word Of Advice For NDP Bird Boy

    Halimah Yacob Has Word Of Advice For NDP Bird Boy

    The precocious Henry Park Primary School Pupil who made headlines for raising his middle finger at the camera during the National Day Parade on Wednesday has not only attracted the attention of netizens but has earned some advice from presidential hopeful Halimah Yacob, as well.

    Halimah – who has been dominating headlines herself after resigning from her elected MP role and from her seat as Speaker of Parliament to contest the reserved presidential election that has been mired in controversy – had this to say to the boy’s parents when she was asked about the boy in an interview with a local news website:

    “I have a word of advice for his parents, if I could.
    “I’m also a mother, I’m a mother. Maybe should just call aside the boy and tell him this is not the right thing to do, and explain to him!
    “I think that would be the ideal. The parents would come in, counsel him, and say “look this is not the right thing to do” and why. You need to explain why, you know.
    “I always feel that instilling values in young people is a job for parents. Because they are born, and the day they were born, they were with us. We have a duty to instill values in them, you see.
    “And so I think, that’s what the parents should do.”

    The establishment favourite hopeful also had the following words of wisdom for the boy himself:

    “You made a mistake, learn from it, and move on.”

    The boy is reportedly “deeply apologetic” for his actions, according to Henry Park Primary School’s principal who also told a local daily that the boy has been counselled.

     

    Source: www.theindependent.sg

     

  • Halimah Yacob: I Have Gone Against PAP

    Halimah Yacob: I Have Gone Against PAP

    Having been a People’s Action Party (PAP) MP for 16 years, Madam Halimah Yacob is aware that there are Singaporeans who question her ability to be non-partisan if she is elected president.

    “I know people have that concern because of my past affiliation with the PAP,” she told The Straits Times in an interview. “But I just want to say that the president has a duty first and foremost to Singapore and Singaporeans, and not to any party.”

    She also has the track record to prove her independence, noting that whether as a unionist or parliamentarian, she had not always toed the government line.

    An occasion she remembered clearly was when she abstained from voting on amendments to the Human Organ Transplant Act in Parliament in 2007.

    Changes tabled by then Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan would allow organ recipients to reimburse donors’ expenses if they wished.

    She was concerned that this would lead to poor people being persuaded to “sell” their organs.

    The party whip was lifted, and she abstained, sending a strong signal of her misgivings.

    She recalled: “I decided not to say yes. I didn’t ask the Health Minister how he felt, but I can still remember the expression on his face.”

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg