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  • ComfortDelgro Sacks Cabby For Reckless Driving After Viral Video Shows Him Reversing Into Parked Car

    ComfortDelgro Sacks Cabby For Reckless Driving After Viral Video Shows Him Reversing Into Parked Car

    Taxi operator ComfortDelgro has sacked a taxi driver after a video that showed him reversing into a parked car at a Redhill carpark was circulated online. In a statement to The Straits Times on Tuesday (April 5), ComfortDelgro’s group corporate communications officer Tammy Tan said: “For driving recklessly, we have terminated the hiring agreement of the cabby.”

    Ms Tan added that the incident had occurred at around noon on March 26. The video, which shows a yellow CityCab taxi reversing at considerable speed into a stationary car, was first uploaded by Facebook user Evon Lim on Monday (April 4) evening. It has since chalked up more than 13,000 shares, with local community groups Beh Chia Lor, Road.sg and Singapore Reckless Drivers also posting the video on their respective Facebook pages.

    In the video, the impact of the crash was seen lifting the parked car partially off the ground, badly denting its left door in the process. The taxi then drove off immediately. The cabby’s “hit-and run” actions based on the video were criticised by the majority of social media users, who blasted him for shirking responsibility.

    But Ms Tan clarified that the cabby stopped his taxi further down the road before returning to the scene of the incident to pass his particulars to a shop owner who knew the car’s owner. “That was not captured in the footage,” she said.

    “We are thankful that no one was injured in this incident and are assisting the owner of the parked vehicle with all repairs.”

     

    Source: The Straits Times

  • 20,000 Lebah Serang Masjid Arizona, Jemaah Bertempiaran Lari

    20,000 Lebah Serang Masjid Arizona, Jemaah Bertempiaran Lari

    Para jemaah lari bertempiaran apabila sehingga 20,000 lebah berbisa keluar daripada sarangnya dan menyerang sebuah masjid di Phoenix, Arizona.

    Menurut laporan The Independent, lebah jenis amat berbisa itu menyengat 15 orang, dan salah seorang daripada mereka, lelaki berusia 24 tahun, dimasukkan ke hospital setelah diserang.

    Beberapa lagi orang dipindahkan daripada masjid itu dengan ambulans, sambil menutup kepala mereka dengan selimut, menurut laporan itu.

    Menurut ABC15, semua yang terjejas kini dalam keadaan stabil, namun pihak berkuasa mungkin boleh menjangkakan lebih banyak serangan kerana bulan April ialah permulaaan musim lebah.

    The Independent melaporkan bahawa pihak berkuasa menutup sebuah jalan raya yang sibuk dengan kenderaan berhampiran tempat itu, dan memberitahu orang ramai supaya duduk di rumah kerana lebah masih terus berkeliaran ke sana sini, bahkan sesetengah lebah itu masih hinggap kepada sarang lebah madu.

    DISENGAT 2,000 KALI

    Masalah lebah di Arizona merupakan masalah yang berlarutan, menurut laporan tersebut. Pada Jun tahun lalu, seorang lelaki berusia 84 tahun disengat lebih 2,000 kali di tamannya.

    Tiga ekor anjing dilaporkan disengat hingga mati pada musim panas yang sama.

    Lebah-lebah tersebut, menurut The Independent, merupakan hibrid lebah madu Eropah dan Afrika, iaitu hasil satu eksperimen baka kacukan di Brazil. Lebah-lebah itu membiak di iklim lebih panas dan berleluasa di negeri seperti Arizona, New Mexico dan Texas.

    Jika salah sebuah sarang lebahnya diganggu, lebah berkenaan boleh menjadi amat agresif.

    “Mereka bencikan sebarang pergerakan, bunyi, atau getaran. Mereka bencikan segala-galanya,” kata Encik Reed Booth, pemilik sebuah perniagaan penghapus lebah di Arizona kepada Associated Press.

    Source: Berita Mediacorp

  • ASEAN Para Games Medalist On Trial For Drug Trafficking

    ASEAN Para Games Medalist On Trial For Drug Trafficking

    Former ASEAN Para Games gold medallist Muhammad Firdaus Nordin, a wheelchair sprinter, has been taken to court for drug trafficking, which he denies.

    The trial for the 28-year-old started yesterday, where a district court heard that the wheelchair-bound athlete was allegedly found in possession of three packets of a crystalline substance containing no less than 2.65g of methamphetamine at about 5am on Feb 2 last year. Firdaus was then in a car driven by his cousin at a heavy-vehicle carpark near Block 510, Bedok North Street 3.

    The police came across the drugs, better known as “ice”, while tracking down suspects in a separate drunken assault that occurred in the vicinity that morning. His cousin was one of those involved in that incident. TODAY understands that Firdaus, though intoxicated, was not involved in the attack.

    A second charge of drug consumption has been stood down, pending resolution of the trial, which is scheduled to end this Friday.

    Policeman Narizh Khan, a station inspector at the Bedok North Neighbourhood Police Centre who accompanied Firdaus from the scene to Changi General Hospital for assessments, testified yesterday that Firdaus had repeatedly said he “did not want (his) mother to know about his drug offences”. Disputing this, defence lawyer Peter Fernando said what his client said was that he did not want his mother to be informed of the arrest. If found guilty of drug trafficking, Firdaus faces between five and 20 years’ jail, and between five and 15 strokes of the cane.

    Firdaus was born with spina bifida, a defect where the developing spinal column does not close properly, leaving nerves exposed. He is one of the fastest wheelchair sprinters in Singapore, clinching a gold medal in the men’s 100m race at the third ASEAN Para Games in 2005 and setting a new Games record for the 200m event at the IPC Athletics World Championships the following year. This won him a silver medal and earned the Republic its first entry into the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing. Firdaus had to pull out later because of injury.

    During the ASEAN Para Games last December, Muhammad Firdaus competed in the 100m, 200m and 400m events.

     

    Source: TODAY Online

  • Walid J. Abdullah: Support the BDS Movement Or Not, Do Not Belittle Others

    Walid J. Abdullah: Support the BDS Movement Or Not, Do Not Belittle Others

    It is not uncommon to hear people mocking those who support the BDS movement, or who refuse to shop at ultra-capitalist establishments which engage in dodgy practices (like Primark). Often, those people engage in a series of silly arguments to justify their making fun of others. Three arguments in particular, are put forth:

    1) ‘You are just one person. Boycotting these companies would not change the situation.’

    2) ‘You can’t boycott every single unethical establishment.’

    3) ‘It’s better to work on other things that you can change.’

    To be honest, these points are quite ludicrous to even be addressed. But because they are put forth by people who are even supposed to be religious teachers, perhaps it would be worthwhile to explore them.

    1) ‘You can’t change anything by boycotting’.

    Yes, even if i boycott them, most probably, i would not be changing anything. But i don’t boycott them, i would DEFINITELY not be changing anything.

    Moreover, i have very modest ambitions: i do not harbour illusions of changing the world. All i can concern myself with is absolving myself of association with that establishment. And if that is all i can do, then that is what i should do.

    2) ‘You can’t boycott everyone.’

    Of course. But does that mean i should not boycott anyone? Seriously, what are these people smoking man.

    3) ‘It’s better to work on other things that you can change.’

    Erm, go ahead, but how does boycotting impede your ability to work on other ‘important things’? And there will always be ‘more important things’; unfortunately, too often that is just rhetoric to excuse one’s self from doing anything.

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    If you choose not to support the BDS movement and the like, fine. But don’t belittle others who try to do something. If you have good arguments against it, bring them forward. Don’t articulate silly red herrings.

    It is even worse when the very same people who teach us ‘no deed is too small in the sight of God’, ‘we must encourage even the smallest good act’, etc, immediately abandon these pieces of advice when they themselves are not in agreement with specific acts. For these people, it’s my way or the highway.

    May we not be from amongst those arrogant people who think we have a monopoly on goodness.

     

    Source: Walid J. Abdullah

  • Madrasah Students Are More Than Just Future Religious Teachers

    Madrasah Students Are More Than Just Future Religious Teachers

    It’s funny when you hear people saying that madrasah students will eventually become religious teachers or even become jobless. The reality is somewhat different. Most madrasah graduates today are professionals in so many different fields. Many are graduates of top universities locally and globally, specializing in fields within the sciences and humanities. Their parents are in high positions in diverse sectors of the Singaporean economy (just for the record: my two daughters are in two different madrasahs).

    So the next time you encounter a madrasah student, do ask the kid in tudung or songkok what he/she wants to be someday. You will be surprised that their dreams are no different from any ordinary student in secular schools. Let’s keep our minds open and our biases closed.

     

    Source: Khairudin Aljunied