Category: Politik

PAP’s Ang Mo Kio GRC Activists Tell Coffeeshop Owners To Chase Away Reform Party Team
Two coffeeshops in Ang Mo Kio Blk 338 and Blk 340 along Avenue 1 chased away the contesting Opposition Party Reform Party from making use of their empty compound to hold a press conference despite having agreed so in the first place.

Both coffeeshop owners did not explain why but simply asked the Reform Party to “go somewhere else”. After being chased away twice, the Reform Party team humbly conducted their press conference on two small tables located outside a shop house. According to an eyewitness on site, a few PAP activists were spotted in the vicinity and one of them was seen complaining to the coffeeshops on both occasions.

The Reform Party team for Ang Mo Kio GRC announced their six candidates today to take on the Prime Minister’s ward. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong will be facing three familiar faces of which he have faced them in the Singapore court and HongLim Park: Activist Gilbet Goh, CPF blogger Roy Ngerng and Lawyer M Ravi.

The 6 Reform Party candidates featured are:
1. Roy Ngerng, Former Financial-aid officer and current CPF writer
2. Gilbert Goh, Councillor and Founder of volunteer organisation Transitioning
3. Osman Sulaiman, Director of Interior Design Company
4. M Ravi, Lawyer
5. Jesse Loo, Banker
6. Siva Chandran, former RC manager of Teck Ghee (Ang Mo Kio) and Video Editor
The Ang Mo Kio GRC constituency will be a major battle because of the Prime Minister’s position. If Lee Hsien Loong is voted out, it will signify the beginning of the fall of the ruling People’s Action Party and its major policies like 6.9 million population proposal, public transport policies and its plan to increase retirement age.

Key issues in Ang Mo Kio GRC will be national issues concerning CPF and 6.9 million population. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong’s performance in this election will be a report card of how popular his policies are among Singaporeans.

Source: http://statestimesreview.com
August 29, 2015
Damanhuri Abas Dan Bryan Lim Akan Bertanding Untuk SDP Di Philihanraya Nanti

Parti Demokratik Singapura (SDP) memperkenalkan dua lagi calon yang akan bertanding pada Pilihan Raya Umum yang akan datang.

Mereka ialah Encik Damanhuri Abas, mantan pengarah Kolej Islam Muhammadiyah dan Encik Bryan Lim, seorang pengurus hospital.

Encik Damanhuri, 45 tahun, bapa kepada lima orang anak, sudah bergiat aktif dalam pertubuhan-pertubuhan Melayu/Islam selama 20 tahun, dan melakukan kerja-kerja sukarela di masjid selama 10 tahun.

Menurut Encik Damanhuri, beliau berupaya untuk menyampaikan apa yang menjadi keprihatinan masyarakat Melayu/Islam khususnya dan rakyat Singapura secara amnya.

“Saya berharap dengan penglibatan saya dalam pilihan raya kali ini, saya dapat menyumbang kepada pembangunan orang Melayu di Singapura, dengan pengalaman yang saya bawa sepanjang 20 tahun, melibatkan diri secara langsung di masjid, persatuan-persatuan Islam, dan juga di sekolah-sekolah dalam pelbagai bidang yang saya terlibat, latihan bengkel dan sebagainya.

“Jadi saya benar-benar berharap bahawa saya dapat beri sumbangan kepada pembangunan masyarakat Melayu di singapura,” ujar Encik Damanhuri.

Encik Lim pula menerajui unit operasi SDP yang menjalankan kegiatan seperti bertemu para penduduk. Beliau pernah bertanding di GRC Hong Kah pada tahun 2001.

SDP telah memperkenalkan enam calon sejak beberapa hari lalu. Antaranya termasuk pegawai pentadbiran jagaan kesihatan Chong Wai Fung, pengurus akaun Khung Wai Yeen, pengarah penjualan Jaslyn Go, profesor perubatan Paul Tambyah, juruaudit Sidek Mallek dan pensyarah psikologi John Tan.

Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

August 29, 2015
Damanhuri Abas – A Champion Of Malay Rights

Until recently, Mr Damanhuri Bin Abas has been the Director of Muhammadiyah Islamic College. He has extensive experience in managing educational organizations, and spent over a decade teaching and training.

Married with five children, Daman holds a Bachelor degree in Architectural Study from the National University of Singapore. Thereafter, he holds a Diploma in Teaching and Training from Cambridge, UK, and a Diploma in Counseling from Kaplan, Singapore.

As a Malay Muslim, Daman is perturbed about the institutionalization of discrimination in Singapore. For example, many Malays feel that they are not being trusted to be in the arm forces. It is also easy to notice the lack of Malay students in Special Assisted School. Daman wishes to ensure that such inequality is being addressed.

He joins the Singapore Democratic Party because it is the only party that concretely spelt out a stand on the Malay issues that he can identify with. An example of the effectiveness of the SDP’s Malay policy paper can be seen in the introduction of Edusave and the recent announcement by the Government to help improve secular education in Madrasah. He hopes Singaporeans will let him be their Voice in Parliament.

Source: http://yoursdp.org

August 29, 2015
Walid J.Abdullah: Damanhuri Abas Deserves Plaudits For Joining SDP Based On Political Convictions

On joining the wrong party:

Some have suggested that Mr Damanhuri Abas has joined the wrong party: had he joined WP, he would have had a higher chance of getting elected.

(For my friends of different or no faiths who may not understand the significance of this matter, this guy is the real deal. He is someone who has truly been ‘on the ground’ and has been active in many grassroots activities over so many years (real grassroots activities; not merely helping out at the MPS a couple of years before being unveiled as a candidate, and then claiming that ‘i have always wanted to help others’. This man is quite respected in the community.)

The suggestion is perhaps right: WP definitely poses more of a threat to PAP than SDP does. However, one has to ask this question: could Mr Damanhuri have mentioned all those things he did in his first press conference had he been in WP? Could he have been as forthcoming and blunt as he was about discrimination if the careful WP was the conducting the press conference? Probably not.

So the challenge then goes to WP: is it willing to openly champion minority issues as much as SDP does? And perhaps the larger questions are: will WP continue to tread down this conservative, non-committal path on such issues, and if so, what really is the difference between PAP and WP?

On another note, it is highly refreshing to see someone joining a party based on his convictions, rather than on probability of electoral success. We will never have a shortage of people who want to join the ruling party to cause ‘change from within’, and to be honest, the more successful WP becomes, the more it will attract people who wants to try to ‘change from within’. But it is extremely rare, to have capable people – not disgruntled nobodies – who make a huge sacrifice and join a party, just so as to be true to his/her beliefs.

For that, this man deserves a ton of respect.

Source: Walid J. Abdullah

August 29, 2015
HDB Wants To Increase My Rental By 37% After Elections End?

Dear Editors,

In a sign of skyrocketing costs of living and business after this upcoming polling day, HDB had sent us a letter right after the election was announced warning us that they intend to raise the rental of our HDB rental unit by a whooping mind-boggling 37%! That’s more than one-third of our current rental and more than $700 per month! But that’s not all. It seems like the letter (see the attached) is a standard letter that is sent to all HDB commercial and industrial property tenants, so we are not the only tenant who is affected.

The PAP ministers had repeatedly claimed they wanted to help Singaporean businesses and workers thrive in Singapore. However, their actions speak louder than words. By increasing our rental by 37% and more than $700 per month, we will have no choice but to cut our workers’ salaries, retrench one of them, or increase our product prices to offset our rental increase so that we can stay in business and pay HDB the higher rental.

We are a small setup and we hire strictly Singaporeans only, so our labour costs are already much higher than our competitors who hire foreigners. We value our workers and we do not wish to put them out of job. But if you are in our shoes, faced with a worsening economy, increasing competition, declining business and skyrocketing rental, you will also have no choice but to take one of the above-mentioned courses of action or go out of business. Increasing our product prices will make our products less competitive and result in lower sales, so it is not an option. Cutting our workers’ salaries will lower their morale and they may quit in no time. Retrenching one of our workers is therefore the only option and the remaining workers will just have to share some of the additional workload. This is not an ideal situation but what else can anyone in our shoes do when forced by HDB to cough out more money for them?

As the largest landlord in Singapore, the PAP government, be it HDB, CapitalMall, Temasek Holdings or otherwise, wields the sole power to set our costs of living and business, and by extension, our quality of life. We elected them and pay them multi-million dollar salaries to work and fight for a better standard of life for us, not to make life miserable and worse off for us. As Mr Low Thia Khiang rightly pointed out, we are the owners of this country instead of the government. Why do we have to keep paying HDB, CapitalMall, Temasek Holdings etc. more and more to use our own land to do business or live?

SG50 is not working out well for us so far, so we cannot imagine how much worse SG100 will be.

Mai Kee Chiu
A.S.S. Contributor

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

August 28, 2015