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Traffic Police Commander Writes Open Letter To Singapore Motorists

If you ride a motorcycle in Singapore, it’s not just your parents who are worried. The Traffic Police are concerned about riders as a group, because they continue to be the most vulnerable road users here.

The statistics are grim: in Singapore there is a motorcycle fatality on average every five days. Last year more than half of fatal accidents involved motorcyclists, with 74 deaths from the biking community out of 155 in total.

Assistant Commissioner and Traffic Police Commander Sam Tee shared the figures today at Singapore Ride Safe 2015, an open forum for various groups to discuss rider safety.

“We are not here just to discuss about doing what is legally right, but also to formulate policies and engender a culture where we watch out for one another. And that is perhaps the greatest takeaway. Obviously one life saved is one life more, and this is why we’re having the dialogue today,” said Commander Tee.

Some 80 stakeholders and road users, comprising representatives from biker clubs to driving schools to the Singapore Road Safety Council, took part in the event at the Harley-Davidson showroom to discuss how bikers can improve their chances on the roads.

Azman Mahmood, a member of Vespa Club Singapore always keeps his front headlight on as required by law, and also makes it a point to wear light-coloured clothing while riding at night to make himself more visible to drivers.

“You are sharing the road with other users. So, even if you are riding defensively, if the other party doesn’t do his part, an accident will happen,” said Azman.

The event was part of a series of dialogues launched in April this year. The sessions between Traffic Police and road users are meant to improve safety by increasing awareness, instead of resorting to harsh enforcement and punishment.

Here’s what Commander Tee had to say to bikers in his letter:

An Open Letter to Road Users

One of the Traffic Police’s key goals is to reduce fatalities on our roads. We simply want our road users to arrive safely at their destinations, whether to meet their loved ones, to their workplaces, or to their leisure spots.

Despite our increasingly congested roads, our road traffic situation has shown improvements over the last few years. The number of fatal traffic accidents and fatalities in 2014 has decreased, as compared to 2013. However, the majority of traffic accidents involve motorcyclists, which continue to be an area of concern. Our records show that one motorcyclist dies on our roads every five days.

We share the roads and our actions affect others. We call upon motorists to look out for other road users, especially the vulnerable — our children, our elderly, our cyclists and other motorcyclists. I also urge the riding community to ride safe for yourself and your loved ones.

Ultimately, road safety is the responsibility of each and every one of us. Traffic Police needs the support of all of you to make the roads a safe place for all users, be it pedestrians or vehicle owners. Together, we must develop our RoadSense, and build a culture of road safety and care for other road users.

One life lost is one too many. Let’s not talk about right of way, but what’s the right way — which is to look out for one another.

Assistant Commissioner of Police Sam Tee
Commander, Traffic Police
Singapore Police Force

Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com

October 24, 2015
Indonesia Introduces Strict Anti-Gay Law, Gay Sex Punishable With 100 Strokes Of Cane

Strict laws against homosexuality have come into effect in the conservative Indonesian province of Aceh.

Gay sex between Muslim men or women, both locals and foreigners, can now be punished with 100 strokes of the cane.

The law, passed in 2014 but only now being enforced, has faced opposition by rights groups.

The strictly Muslim province has become increasingly conservative in recent years and is the only one in Indonesia allowed to implement Sharia law.

Under the new laws, adultery also carries a possible penalty of 100 strokes. Those who accuse someone of adultery without proof could themselves face 80 lashes.

“The law is to safeguard human dignity. It is to protect Aceh’s Muslims from committing immoral acts,” provincial Sharia chief Syahrizal Abbas told the AFP news agency.

But Ismail Hasani, from human rights group the Setara Institute for Democracy and Peace, criticised the law as “cruel, inhumane and against the constitution”.

Gay sex is not illegal in the rest of Indonesia.

Aceh has allowed brought in its own laws ever since reaching an agreement with the national government in 2001 to end a separatist movement.

The province has recently seen a deterioration in relations between the Muslim majority and smaller religious groups such as Christians.

Churches have been destroyed in violent protests in recent weeks or have been demolished by local authorities who said they lacked proper permits.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk

October 24, 2015
10 Things You Didn’t Know About Pulau Tekong

<Source: Cyberpioneer Magazine Oct 2015>

1. Pulau Tekong first appeared in the Franklin and Jackson’s 1828 map as Po. Tukang. Tukang means “merchant” – the island used to serve as a trading station for Pulau Ubin and the state of Johor. Tekong means “an obstacle”, and this could have been because the island blocks the mouth of Johor River.

2. Found off Singapore’s northeastern coast, Pulau Tekong is actually nearer to Johor than to the Singapore main island.

3. The Pulau Tekong we know today originally comprised two islands. The 24.4 sq km Pulau Tekong, known as Pulau Tekong Besar in Malay, known as Pulau Tekong Besar in Malay, meaning “Big Tekong Island”, and the 0.89 sq km Pulau Tekong Kechil, Malay for “Small Tekong Island”. Th e two were merged in the mid-1990s.

4. In the 1940s, the 17th Dogra Regiment and the Sphinx Battery were stationed on Pulau Tekong as part of the Changi Fire Command, a series of gun defences covering a possible Japanese approach from the east during World War II. Their legacy lives on with the Dogra and Sphinx bridges on the island.

5. Historically, Pulau Tekong was occupied by the mainly Malays and a few Teochews and Hakkas, with the population peaking at nearly 8,000 in the 1980s. Most were farmers, fishermen and shop owners selling sundry goods.

6. Today, Pulau Tekong is used exclusively as a Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) training base, and is home to the Basic Military Training Centre (BMTC). BMTC consists of two camps – Ladang and Rocky Hill – and 28 companies to train newly conscripted recruits.

7. Though Pulau Tekong is no longer inhabited by civilians, the memory of kampong life lives on as training areas such as Permatang, Selabin, and Sanyongkong were named after the villages that used to be on the island.

8. On 29 May 1990, national servicemen spotted three Asian elephants which had apparantly swum 1.5 km across the Straits of Johor to the island. A joint effort by the Singapore Zoo and Malaysian Wildlife Department eventually recaptured the elephants and they were relocated back to the forests of Johor by 10 Jun.

9. On 18 Mar 2004, Pulau Tekong was the hiding place for one Malaysiana and Two Indonesian armed robbers who fled there from Johor on a morotised boat. After an intensive three-day manhunt by the SAF and Singapore Police Force, all three were caught and charged with illegal entry and poessession of firearms.

10. Pulau Tekong is home to one of Singapore’s hot springs. Located in the northern area known as Unum, it features warm water and a boardwalk with a “Pulau Tekong Hot Spring” sign.

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

October 23, 2015
Former SCDF Director Found Guilty Of Criminal Breach Of Trust

A former director at the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) has been found guilty and convicted of two counts of criminal breach of trust, involving the misappropriation of two iPads in September 2011.

Jeganathan Ramasamy, 63, was found guilty on Thursday (Oct 22) after a 10-day trial. He had assumed that the two iPads, worth a total of S$1,877, he had obtained from SCDF vendors were for personal use, when in fact the iPads had been entrusted to him for the purpose of testing out SCDF mobile applications developed by an external vendor.

He gave one iPad to his daughter, and sold the other to his colleague Mr Eric Yap Wee Teck, then a senior director at SCDF, for S$200.

Mr Yap is now commissioner of the SCDF, having been appointed in February 2012.

Jeganathan said in his defence that he was under the impression that he could test out the iPads in the hopes of purchasing them later on, but District Judge Shaiffudin Saruwan dismissed this claim.

The judge is expected to deliver his sentence on Nov 16, after the prosecution and defence have made their submissions on sentence and mitigation, respectively. Criminal breach of trust by a public servant can attract a jail term of up to 20 years’ jail and a fine.

Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

October 23, 2015
Woman Molested On MRT, Brave Man Drags Pervert Out And Reports To Police

<Facebook post by Jerome>

On Monday 19th Oct 2015 about 7.15 am.
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This pervert (*Image) in his 50s maybe? Board the train at Bukit Panjang LRT station. I noticed that he have been targeting this office looking lady wearing green tank top and jeans as the way he looked at her is just .. SICK.
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I was looking at him all along, wanted to video it down but what came to my mind was WHAT IS THIS GUY DOING? SHOULD I SHOUT AT HIM? …. and guess what? HE STOOD SO CLOSE TO THE LADY, HE EVEN TIP TOE TO PEAK OVER THE LADY’S FRONT. The lady was focusing playing her candy crush or whatever game with her phone. The train wasn’t as crowded as there’s space behide him to move in.
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HE DID THAT AGAIN!! TWICE!!!! and even use his bottom to hit the lady’s rear. That’s when the lady turn around and looked at him. Moved away from him and walked towards my direction .. scared was written all over her face. I could tell she didn’t dare to confront him.
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HE DID THAT TO ANOTHER WOMAN BEHIDE HIM!!!! That’s when I pulled his right sleeve and throw him out of the LRT train at Teck Whye LRT station.
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*In the train
Pervert uncle: WHY U PULL PULL?
Me: Get out of the train u pervert. I SAW WHAT U DID.
Pervert uncle: F**K U. I look only cannot? CANNOT LOOK?
Me: *walk out of the train and confront his actions
Me: *trying very hard to communicate with him in Mandarin
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*At Teckwhye LRT Station
Me: HOW OLD ARE U? NO WIFE? NO KIDS?
Pervert uncle: U SHUT UP. U RAPIST. U THE RAPIST.
Me: Insult one more time i call the police.
Pervert uncle: U RAPIST I LOOK CANNOT? CANNOT?
Pervert uncle: F* OFF LA BOY. U RAPIST LA NOT ME.
Me: *Reporting to Police & SMRT
Pervert uncle: *Teary eyes & feeling nervous
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Me: I KNOW U I SAW U DOING THESE MANY TIMES. I HOPE U WILL BE JAIL FOR LIFE. PEOPLE LIKE U SHOULDN’T EVEN COME OUT.
Pervert uncle: U SHUT UP I LOOK ONLY, LOOK AT GIRLS GOT WRONG? I DIDN’T RAPE. U RAPE. U RAPIST. U RAPIST.
Me: TOUCH GOT NO WRONG? HUH? U TELL ME?
Pervert uncle: WHAT TOUCH TOUCH. I SEE. SEE ONLY.
Me: KEEP QUIET and wait for the Police to come. I don’t want talk to u, dirty man.
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He’s still free as there’s no evidence against this sicko. I SHOULD HAVE VIDEO IT DOWN…. and ask the victim to come out with me but I was too rash to think rationally as this is not the first time i saw him doing this!!
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Ladies just take note of this pervert!
*His surname is TAY
*Usually at Bukit Panjang to CCK area.
*Likes to target woman from the back.
*Likes to walk very closely to young ladies and “accidentally” touch them.
*Mostly wearing red shirt and black shorts.
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I hope my image is clear for you girls to take note. Ladies don’t be afraid to shun from such incidents and protect yourselves. Stay safe!

Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

October 23, 2015