Category: Singapuraku

Ferrari And SBS Double-Decker Bus Collied

A Ferrari and an SBS Transit bus collided along Mountbatten Road on Friday night (June 26).

The New Paper reader Mr Roy Lee was at home when he heard a loud bang at about 10.15pm.

He said he came out to see the front of a Ferrari 456 Italia Spyder bumped up against a double decker bus.

While he did not see how the accident happened, Mr Lee said the Ferrari was facing against traffic flow.

Fortunately no one was hurt in the accident.

A spokesman from the Singapore Civil Defence Force said two fire bikes and one ambulance were dispatched to the scene.

Source: www.tnp.sg

June 28, 2015
Law Professor Withdraws Offer To Compensate Cabby Victim

The assistant law professor had initially offered to pay compensation to a cabby for assaulting him.

But he withdrew the offer yesterday after he was berated by a judge.

National University of Singapore law professor Sundram Peter Soosay, 43, was eventually sentenced yesterday to four months’ jail and ordered to pay $1,500 compensation to the cabby.

Soosay had been found guilty last month of assaulting Mr Sun Chun Hua, 70, in the wee hours of Christmas Day in 2013.

Earlier during yesterday’s hearing, Soosay had indicated he was willing to offer Mr Sun compensation.

But when District Judge Victor Yeo chided him and his lawyer for not settling the issue earlier so Mr Sun could consent to the compensation, Soosay withdrew his offer.

During sentencing, Judge Yeo said that violence against transport workers cannot be tolerated because while they provide an essential service to the public, they deserve to work in a safe and secure environment.

He highlighted that Soosay had attacked Mr Sun at about 5am, when there was little foot traffic and the taxi driver would be at his most vulnerable.

“I did not sense any remorse (in you), and you have a lackadaisical attitude towards compensation,” the judge said.

The court had earlier heard that an intoxicated Soosay boarded Mr Sun’s taxi after a party.

He vomited in Mr Sun’s taxi and got off the cab near King Albert Park in Clementi Road, where he walked away without paying.

When the cabby chased him, Soosay handed him $50.

But after the cabby turned his back and headed towards his taxi to retrieve change, Soosay attacked Mr Sun from behind.

VIOLENT

He jumped on the older man’s back, knocked him to the ground and hit him several times in the face and head.

Soosay stopped only when a passer-by went to the cabby’s assistance.

Calling Mr Sun a victim of gratuitous violence, Judge Yeo noted that the cabby could not work for 17 days.

Referring to the cabby’s testimony, Judge Yeo said the cabby had never seen anything like that in his 20 years as a driver, and that he has stopped picking up drunk passengers.

Soosay offered no mitigation before sentencing. He will be appealing his sentence and has been released on $20,000 bail.

The $1,500 compensation will still have to be paid to Mr Sun by July 15.

Source: www.tnp.sg

June 27, 2015
Singapore Ranks 97th Overall In Global Well-Being Survey

The Republic has been ranked 97th out of 145 countries in a Global Well-Being Index survey by analytics firm Gallup and well-being solutions provider Healthways announced on Wednesday (Jun 24).

The index was based on interviews with more than 146,000 people aged 15 and older, in 145 countries, territories and areas in 2014. The annual survey measured five indicators: Financial well-being, community well-being, purpose well-being, social well-being and physical well-being.

Survey respondents were asked ten questions and asked to rate their responses on a five-point scale. Responses were categorised by Gallup analysts as “thriving”, “struggling” or “suffering”. Countries are then ranked on the percentage of the population that is “thriving” in three or more elements of well-being.

For financial well-being, which Gallup defined as “managing your economic life to reduce stress and increase security”, Singapore was ranked ninth worldwide.

Singapore was ranked 72nd worldwide for community well-being, defined as “liking where you live, feeling safe and having pride in your community”.

It scored 111th in purpose well-being – “Liking what you do each day and being motivated to achieve your goals”; 127 in social well-being – “having supportive relationships and love in your life”; and 137th in physical well-being – “having good health and enough energy to get things done daily”.

The index aggregates the scores in the five categories to arrive at Singapore’s overall 97th ranking.

Among South-east Asian nations, the Republic ranked behind Myanmar (20), Malaysia (41), Philippines (43), Thailand (50), Indonesia (73), Vietnam (93). Cambodia came in slightly below Singapore at 99.

Globally, Panama came in first for the second consecutive year topping the list for physical and purpose well-being, and second place for social and community.

Afghanistan ranked last overall, also coming in last in purpose, social and financial well-being.

Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

June 27, 2015
Ustaz Noor Deros: Liberals Are Cherry-Picking The Quran To Justify LGBT Lifestyle

1- You can see clearly in this misTafsir of the Secular and Liberal Muslims an astonishing similarity with ISIS and other extremist groups with regards to the methodology they employed in reading the text of the Quran and Sunnah, clearly both used the same unacademic, out of context, cherrypicking and incomprehensive reading of the sacred texts. We can say either the liberals employed Tafsir Daeshiy or Daesh employed Tafsir Libraliy.

2- Ask any lay Muslim who actually have read the whole Quran, with technology they would easily quote you these three verses. Does these verses sound like a prohibition of rape? :

إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِّن دُونِ النِّسَاءِ ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ مُّسْرِفُونَ

“Verily, you practise your lusts on men instead of women. Nay, but you are a people transgressing beyond bounds (by committing great sins).” (7:81)

أَئِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِّن دُونِ النِّسَاءِ ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ تَجْهَلُونَ

“Do you practise your lusts on men instead of women? Nay, but you are a people who behave senselessly.” (27:55)

أَتَأْتُونَ الذُّكْرَانَ مِنَ الْعَالَمِينَ وَتَذَرُونَ مَا خَلَقَ لَكُمْ رَبُّكُم مِّنْ أَزْوَاجِكُم ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ عَادُونَ

“You go in unto the males of the ‘Alamin (mankind), and leave those whom Allah has created for you to be your wives? Nay, you are a trespassing people!” (26:165-166)

3- The wife of Lut a.s and the people of the city were punished due to their complicity and tacit approval of the crimes, it is that simple, really.

4- The word ‘transgression’ (عادون and مسرفون) in the verses encompasses both sexual and non-sexual sins which includes rape as well as consensual sodomy and lesbianism. There is no evidence whatsoever to exclude consensual sodomy from the transgression of the people of Lut a.s, in the contrary, the textual, thematic as well as semantic evidences actually point to it as being one of the main reason that led to their destruction.

وَلُوطًا إِذْ قَالَ لِقَوْمِهِ أَتَأْتُونَ الْفَاحِشَةَ مَا سَبَقَكُم بِهَا مِنْ أَحَدٍ مِّنَ الْعَالَمِينَ إِنَّكُمْ لَتَأْتُونَ الرِّجَالَ شَهْوَةً مِّن دُونِ النِّسَاءِ ۚ بَلْ أَنتُمْ قَوْمٌ مُّسْرِفُونَ

“And (remember) Lut (Lot), when he said to his people: “Do you commit the worst sin such as none preceding you has committed in the ‘Alamin (mankind and jinn)?

“Verily, you practise your lusts on men instead of women. Nay, but you are a people transgressing beyond bounds.” (7:80-81)

5- The liberals were known to oppose literal reading of texts, but in this case it appears that they will only accept the criminal status of sodomy when there is a clear cut prohibition laid down in a verse with an explicit description of the act. Again, Tafsir Daeshy at work.

Source: Noor Deros

June 27, 2015
Dr Yacob Ibrahim: Quality Of Life Of Singaporean Malays Have Improved

SINGAPORE: The quality of life for the Malay-Muslim community in Singapore has “improved tremendously” compared to 50 years ago, Minister-in-charge of Muslim Affairs Dr Yaacob Ibrahim said on Friday (Jun 26).

“Malays are now homeowners, we have a better educated population, wealth has been increasing in the Malay-Muslim community and we collected more ‘zakat’ last year compared to previous years,” he said to reporters at a Mendaki house visit.

“By and large, the state of affairs of the Malay-Muslim community here is quite good.”

Dr Yaacob, who is also the Minister of Communications and Information, was responding to comments made by former Malaysian law minister Zaid Ibrahim in his blog.

On Wednesday, Mr Zaid wrote that he couldn’t “wait for Malays (in Malaysia) to be like Singaporean Malays”, saying that the latter enjoyed a “clean and transparent system of government and a good and fair housing policy, on top of reaping the benefits of the modern advanced economy that is Singapore”.

Mr Zaid said he meant for the post to clarify a tweet he had posted earlier, responding to former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad’s criticism of current PM Najib Razak.

“I think the most important thing for me as a member of the Malay-Muslim community is to be thankful for what we have in Singapore,” Dr Yaacob said.

While the community does have its challenges, the important thing is to figure out how to go forward, he added.

“We need to preserve what we have and maintain the standards that we have lived by to ensure that the succeeding generations can also enjoy a higher quality of life, for themselves and for their children,” he said, citing values such as meritocracy and the absence of corruption.

Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

June 27, 2015