Netizens have been sending us questions about the mysterious girl spotted at the National Solidarity Party’s (NSP) “Meet & Greet” walkabout, which was held in the evening of 27th May at Serangoon Central. NSP candidates have been working hard and conducting frequent walkabouts in the Marine Parade GRC ward in preparation for upcoming elections.
At first, there seemed to be very little information about the mysterious hottie, who struck a cute figure among the more senior and serious figures in the NSP walkabout team. One particular photo that caught every eligible bachelor’s eye was a shot where the young lady struck a “V for Victory” pose while posing gamely for a candid camera photo. The shot was taken by a fellow NSP team member.
But the wait is over, it seems. A reader has come forward with information on the young political starlet, who goes by the name Kevryn Lim Tong Zhen.
Kevryn, who currently runs her own event management and digital marketing firm, EMDM, while holding down a position as a Project Manager at WOW Productions, is definitely not your run-of-the-mill political lightweight.
According to her Linkedin profile, she holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communications, Public Relations and Film & TV from the Curtin University of Technology, as well as a Masters in Professional Communication from the same university.
She also participated actively as a student volunteer to help the less fortunate during her studies overseas, and even co-founded the Curtin Student United Way, a youth leadership program that gives its members the chance to make a difference in their communities by building up their communities in the areas of education, income and health.
Kevryn even served as an online radio presenter on Radio Television Hong Kong, making her a mini-celebrity in her own right!
Our reader also informed A.S.S. that Kevryn had worked as a model for a few years. This comes as no surprise, given Kevryn’s lithe frame and attractive features.
The reader has generously submitted some photos below of Kevryn during hermodelling days, all of which confirm that Kevryn might just be the hottest political star to hit Singapore politics since Nicole Seah.
Take a look, you might be impressed!
Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com
Do We Want Another 5 Years With PAP?
More than 100 days have passed since 23 March, and business seems to be back to normal in Singapore. There is no more outpouring of gratitude whatsoever and in typical pragmatic style people have begun to realise that the next general elections could be as near as 100 days away. Given the trend of downwards support for PAP, things certainly look interesting.
For one, the PAP has always preached that the opposition should not be given a blank cheque less they make things hard by blocking policies in parliament. As the past 5 years have shown, this is complete and utter bullshit; the WP has shown that they have acted responsibly by voting to strengthen regulatory oversight of town councils despite placing a higher burden on them.
In fact, quite the contrast can be said. The PAP has made use of their parliamentary majority to pass laws such as the population white paper and the implementation of new media laws, which may not have been favourably received by the majority at large. Hence, more opposition power in parliament may be seen as a positive thing as democracy becomes the new norm.
Are we willing to accept that alternative political parties in parliament have added more value? While Aljunied town council may have been portrayed as a failure, the fact that WP’s presence in parliament has proven its worth as they serve as a platform to raise difficult questions and elicit answers from the PAP to allow us an insight into their thinking.
The questions range from the millions spent on scholarships to foreign students to government intentions on the use of ‘unaccredited’ degrees. In both instances, this left some sour feeling on the expected returns from these foreign scholars as well as the PAP government’s lack of empathy. As this catches on, slowly but surely people have begun to realise the merits of having more voices.
So let’s think about it: do we want another 5 years with PAP?
Source: http://mythoughtsinafewparagraphs.net
Activist Han Hui Hui Calls For S$10,000 Donation To Pay For Legal Fees
On 5 June 2015, an email was received by Han Hui Hui informing her that she has to pay $6,000 to the Attorney General’s Chambers as her application OS67 has been withdrawn while she was overseas on 27 May 2015.
OS67 is an Originating Summons seeking declarations that Singaporeans should be given the rights to freedom of assembly and freedom of speech at Hong Lim Park to demand for transparency and accountability.
On 6 June 2015, $500 was paid to seek legal advice as OS67 is important to the #ReturnOurCPF case for both the illegal demonstration and public nuisance charges.
On 7 June 2015, summons, affidavit and other legal documents were prepared.
On 8 June 2015, a further $256.90 was being paid to the Supreme Court as filing fees.
On 9 June 2015, the court has granted Han Hui Hui the right to represent herself in court as Mr M Ravi was suspended and there is no other legal counsel available.
We are looking for 10,000 Singaporeans who care to give $1 each so as to continue this fight.
This amount is for the court, filing and legal fees to continue the cases of Singaporeans being charged for the CPF Protest at Speakers’ Corner on 27 Sep.
Send your $1 via Internet Banking, ATM or cheque to POSB savings account no. 279-12328-0.
(This account belongs to Han Hui Hui and has the sole purpose of organising events as well as fighting lawsuits against us)
Please help to share this meaningful activity with your friends.
Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com
High Court: No Queen’s Counsel For Roy Ngerng In Defamation Suit By Lee Hsien Loong
The High Court today dismissed an application by blogger Roy Ngerng’s for a Queen’s Counsel (QC) to represent him in a hearing on damages he must pay for defaming Singapore’s Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong.
High Court judge Steven Chong also ordered Ngerng to pay S$6,000 in costs, inclusive of disbursements.
Ngerng was found guilty of defaming PM Lee in a blog post he made last year that suggested PM Lee misappropriated pension funds in a similar way to how the City Harvest Church was accused of misusing church funds.
The City Harvest Church is currently still before the courts with no verdict yet to be made.
Ngerng’s lawyer George Hwang had filed the bid on 28 May, and had subsequently cited the precedence of the case as grounds for a QC.
This is the first time a blogger is being sued by the Prime Minister in Singapore.
However, Justice Chong said that “novelty is not to be confused with complexity”, as QCs can only be admitted to argue cases in the Singapore courts if they have special qualifications or experience for the purpose of the case.
He also said that while Ngerng’s choice of QC was well-respected in the field of defamation in the United Kingdom, the subject matter of this case is “local-centric”.
Another factor for considering a QC was whether local senior counsel was available to take the case, and whether there is a need to engage the services of a foreign legal counsel.
In response, Justice Chong called Ngerng’s attempts to seek members of the local bar who are not senior counsels to argue his case “disappointing”.
“If Mr Ravi was suitable at the more complex stage, I fail to see why local non-senior counsels would not be suitable at this less complex stage,” Justice Chong was reported by media as saying.
Human rights lawyer M Ravi had been representing Ngerng until his license to practice has been suspended on medical grounds. Ravi is currently seeking to have his license reinstated.
Adapted from media reports.
Source: www.theonlinecitizen.com
Ismail Kassim: A Malay Triology – Politics
Part III: Why Malays can’t put their act together?
We are Malays and we must uphold our Malay heritage above all. All my life I have considered myself a Malay and a Muslim; not Sunni, not Syiah.
I honour our Prophet, PBUH, whom I consider a perfect gentleman; peerless and fearless. I try to imbue myself with the values he espoused and accept much of his teachings on how life should be lived in this world.
We should not get involved with the Semitic people, their perennial quarrels and their penchant for mutual slaughter.
Neither side is right; both are equally murderous, and both want power, not to build a progressive and equal society based on fear of God, but to oppress the other side for not belonging to their sect.
To these people, their strongest affiliation is to their religious sect and to their tribe; the sense of nation hardly exists. They have never learnt to compromise and work together for the larger interest of the nation.
True, in the early years, Islam liberated their minds and they became a progressive people but over the centuries they have slide backwards; today, they are among the most backward of societies.
For example, just take a look at the Land of the Pharoahs and you see another Mubarak in the making, made possible by the so-called liberals of their society. The military, which lost all their battles against the Israelis, is only good for oppressing their own people.
The trouble there is that the Muslim Brotherhood wants to force their Islamic agenda down the throat of the liberals, the latter wants to do the same to the Muslims, while the military wants to usurp power mainly to further their own ends.
As for the keepers of our holy places, look at them trying to imitate the Israelis, bombing Yemen and killing innocent civilians, to further their dubious self-serving goals.
If you look around the globe, the Chinese are fast on their way to becoming a respected nation, the Indians too have jumped on the same path and picking up momentum.
Alas the Arabs are still locked in their ancient enmities and the Malays seem to want to follow them on their path of self-destruction.
Just compare how the Australians behave towards Singapore and towards Indonesia when their citizens are about to be executed for drug offences. You can tell which country commands more respect from the Aussies and you know the reason why.
Across the Causeway, we see the spectacle of UMNO and PAS at each other’s throat, almost like a pantomime imitation of the Sunni-Syiah conflict in the Middle-East.
They forget the lesson of history. With 5000 British troops, the British ruled over 500 million Indians for 500 years.
A feat made possible only with the help of hundreds of thousands of collaborators because of disunity and jealousy among Indians, who hate each other more than they hate the white men. If the Malays are not careful, history can repeat itself in Tanah Melayu.
When I stopped reporting on Malaysian politics in Oct 1995, I felt then that the country was sliding down the hill. Two decades later, my opinion remains unchanged; the slide continues inexorably.
Politics is in a mess. The Malays are divided as they have never been, and the non-Malays disenchanted and demoralised, and race-relations never very good even in the best of times, has taken another tumble downwards.
Corruption in high places and in the Malay-dominated bureaucracy has become more rampant.
As for the rakyat, the bigots and the obnoxious among them have made themselves heard at frequent intervals, no doubt instigated by Nationalist elements, religious fanatics and politicians in furtherance of their own narrow and selfish goals.
Even before it lost Chinese support, UMNO have for years been pampering the Malay electorate on two fronts; closing its eyes to mismanagement of its pro-bumiputra policies and appeasing their insatiable demands for more and more Islam in public and private life.
The result is increasing greed within sections of the community for the material comforts of this world and at the same time for the divine blessings of the next world.
I do not see switching from the UMNO-led Front to the opposition Pakatan Rakyat as a viable long-term solution. A narrow win for the Pakatan will only trigger endless rounds of instability a la Thailand.
Malaysia is not ready yet for a two-party system, not now and not in the next few decades. A split within the dominant Malay community does not benefit any group, not the Malays and not the minorities.
Likewise, in Singapore, it is foolish of the Malays here to entertain any ideas that they could profit by playing one Chinese side against the other.
Only a united, dominant community will have the confidence and the ability to offer meaningful concessions to its respective minority.
In a democratic one man one vote system, UMNO are now in a dilemma. After losing the support of the Chinese and the more progressive elements from the Malay community, it cannot afford to alienate whatever little communal support it has left.
Without any concession to the Chinese, they won’t come back. If too much, it might lose its conservative Malay base. The result is stalemate.
The best way out for Malaysia is for the Malays to unite, for PAS and UMNO to get together minus their extremist fringe, and forge a common platform to build up the nation, develop the Malays and other indigenous groups into a respected community and to be fair to their minorities, who are assets to the nation.
Malay leaders should swallow their pride. Come to Singapore and see how the PAP have done it. Learn how to protect the interests of the dominant community while giving a fair deal to the minorities.
The selective discrimination against Malays in the security and military services is balanced by other benign policies so that overall things square up for the community.
It is not an impossible act for Malaysia to follow, but you need a strong leader to pull it off. At the moment, there is none in sight.
Source: Ismail Kassim