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  • Angry Netizens Deleting Meituan En Masse After Delivery App Introduces Separate Boxes For Halal Food

    Angry Netizens Deleting Meituan En Masse After Delivery App Introduces Separate Boxes For Halal Food

    Popular food delivery app Meituan has stirred up controversy online after announcing that it will begin offering separate logistics infrastructure for halal food, causing Chinese netizens to condemn the company for “discriminating against” non-Muslims while also worrying about the “rise of Islam” in their country.

    Meituan couriers on bikes will now be armed with two delivery boxes, a normal one for non-halal food and a smaller one for halal food, the company announced recently, a change that many netizens apparently see as discriminatory, vowing that they will delete the app en masse.

    One Weibo thread on the controversial topic currently counts nearly 50,000 comments. “Meituan is really acting outside natural morality,” reads the top comment with more than 18,000 likes. Meanwhile, other Weibo users have more specifically charged the company with discriminating against Han people, wondering why separate delivery boxes are not also offered for them or for Buddhists or for people with other religious beliefs which affect their diet. “I don’t like to eat lamb, can I have my own separate delivery box as well?” asked another Weibo user.

    “Meituan delivers both halal food and non-halal food. That really isn’t proper or harmonious. In order to safeguard the sanctity of minority food, we non-halal diners should start using Ele.me [another popular delivery app] instead. That way Muslims will have their own halal app,” argued another netizen, joining calls online to boycott Meituan and delete the company’s app.

    Others have voiced their dissatisfaction with the policy change in different ways. For instance, Twitter user @kitmention points out one netizen who asked Meituan on Weibo to: “Please put my pork soup in your halal-only delivery box.”

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    Meanwhile, some netizens have wondered who exactly is discriminating against whom in this matter. In one popular post, a Weibo user asks “Have anyone’s rights been hurt?” by this logistics change, adding that if you believe that Muslims are really unfairly forcing you to accommodate to their religious beliefs, then are you not also committing the same sin by raising a fuss and calling for a boycott over this issue?

    In response to this argument, another Weibo user has argued that, in fact, separate boxes mean increased delivery costs that will be borne by all customers, not just halal ones, so the change will have direct consequences on the app’s users. And, as for the negative societal effects of such a policy, the netizen worried about how continuing to cater to religious customs could lead to problems down the road, arguing that consumers should be free to vote with their wallets to support or not support Meituan’s new halal boxes.

    More broadly, the controversy over halal delivery boxes appears to have reawakened ethnic fears among Chinese netizens against Muslims. A post by one female business owner on “rising Islamization,” which includes screenshots of a rather Islamophobic story, has gone viral on Weibo with nearly 40,000 shares. The comments below the post are filled with netizens condemning Islam and cautioning their Han brothers and (especially) sisters to be careful about the creeping influence of Islamic culture.

    Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing, Meituan started life as a group buying website that emerged in the wake of the Groupon craze. It merged with restaurant reviews app Dianping in 2015 to form Meituan-Dianping, which now claims to be the world’s largest on-demand delivery platform, receiving up to 10 million orders every day.

     

    Source: http://shanghaiist.com

  • NTUC FairPrice Removes Asia Pulp & Paper Group Products

    NTUC FairPrice Removes Asia Pulp & Paper Group Products

    Supermarket chain NTUC FairPrice announced on Wednesday (Oct 7) that it will withdraw all paper products sourced from Asia Pulp & Paper Group (APP), after the Singapore Environment Council (SEC) said it has instituted a temporary restriction on the use of the “Singapore Green Label” certification for the Indonesian firm’s products.

    In a press release, FairPrice said it carries 14 Housebrand products that are certified with the Singapore Green Label. Among them, two are Housebrand tissue products sourced from APP through a licensed distributor. In addition, all 16 APP-related products from various brands carried by the chain also have the Singapore Green Label certification, FairPrice said.

    Products affected by the withdrawal include FairPrice Softpack Tissue 200s, and FairPrice Gold 3 Ply Facial Tissue 140s, supplied by APP. FairPrice will also withdraw all APP-related products, including those from Paseo, NICE and Jolly, by 5pm on Wednesday, it said.

    NTUC FairPrice CEO Seah Kian Peng said: “We have been proactively monitoring the situation over the past week. We initiated meetings with the various parties concerned when the list of firms including APP, was named by the authorities as suspects for contributing to the haze.”

    “As a fair business partner, we reserved taking action pending further information and investigation by the authorities. Our decision to withdraw all APP products is a result of the temporary restriction of their Green Label certification,” he added.

    “NO SUPPLIER HAS BEEN PROVEN TO BE INVOLVED”: APP

    APP has said it has “nothing to hide” and “no supplier has been proven to be involved” in raging forest fires in Indonesia contributing to hazy conditions around the region.

    In a statement issued to the media on Wednesday (Oct 7), APP – which is a member of Indonesia’s Sinar Mas Group and has an office in Singapore – said it received a notice from Singapore’s National Environment Agency (NEA) on Sep 25 and had responded in accordance to their deadline.

    NEA had issued the notice under the Transboundary Haze Pollution Act, seeking information on its subsidiaries in Singapore and Indonesia, as well as measures taken by its suppliers in Indonesia to put out fires in their concessions, as smoke from raging forest fires in Indonesia’s Sumatra and Kalimantan had pushed air quality to unhealthy levels in Singapore.

    APP added that it has invited NEA officials to visit its operations in Indonesia to demonstrate the company’s no burning policy.

    “If a supplier were found to have been involved in setting forest fires, our policy is clear and we would disengage that supplier. Thus far no supplier has been proven to be involved. It is premature therefore to make judgments until investigations by relevant authorities are completed,” the statement said.

    In the statement, APP said its list of pulpwood suppliers is public, and the company submits concession maps to the Indonesian government and World Resources Institute (WRI).

    “We continue to implement our Forest Conservation Policy (FCP) round the clock, as well as deploying 2,900 trained firefighters and fire suppression helicopters to help deal with this tragic situation,” APP said in the statement, adding that there are fires within their suppliers’ concessions, but not started by the company or its suppliers.

    “The fire situation is complex and both the Singapore and Indonesia governments and authorities are still investigating the situation.”

    APP products include Enlivo notebooks, Inspira paper and Paseo tissue paper.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Belia Bangun Aplikasi Bantu Jemaah Elak Masjid Sesak

    Belia Bangun Aplikasi Bantu Jemaah Elak Masjid Sesak

    Aplikasi bimbit yang membolehkan pengguna menilai tahap kesesakan sebuah masjid sebelum memilih tempat bagi menunaikan sembahyang Jumaat.

    Itulah idea daripada sekumpulan belia yang membangunkan prototaip atau versi awal aplikasi tersebut dalam tempoh 24 jam menerusi satu peraduan Cabaran Teknologi Masjid (MTC) yang berakhir semalam.

    Kumpulan yang merangkul tempat pertama dalam peraduan itu terdiri daripada tiga mahasiswa – Encik Muhammad Hadziq Sulaiman, 23 tahun, dari Universiti Teknologi Nanyang (NTU); Encik Tengku Muhammad Hafidzuddin, 22 tahun, dari Universiti Nasional Singapura (NUS); dan Encik Muhammad Syafiq Hanafee, dari Institut Teknologi Singapura (SIT).

    “Kami berharap aplikasi itu akan dapat membantu mengurangkan masalah kesesakan di masjid sewaktu solat Jumaat,” ujar Encik Hafidzuddin, seorang mahasiswa sistem maklumat.

    Menerusi aplikasi yang dinamakan Go Mosque SG itu, orang ramai juga boleh ‘check-in’ atau daftar masuk ke masjid bagi mendapat ‘markah’ dengan lebih banyak markah diberikan bagi solat pada awal waktu.

    Ini bertujuan menggalakkan orang ramai ke masjid dan mendirikan sembahyang secara berjemaah, kata Encik Syafik pula.

    Kumpulannya merancang melancarkan aplikasi itu kepada orang ramai dalam masa setahun.

    Acara MTC dianjurkan buat julung-julung kalinya oleh Kelab Mendaki dengan kerjasama IslamicEvents.SG, EchoedLabs, Majulah Community, 12 Geeks, dan Kelompok Masjid Tengah Utara.

    Peraduan itu diadakan di Masjid An-Nahdhah.

    Seorang penganjur, Cik Rufaidah Mohd Kamal daripada EchoedLabs berkata:

    “Menerusi acara ini, kami menggalakkan belia memikir tentang cabaran yang dihadapi masyarakat dan mencari huraian baginya.”

    Seramai 15 belia dalam empat pasukan menyertai peraduan itu.

    Selain idea aplikasi Go Mosque SG, idea lain termasuk menggunakan ‘crowdfunding’ (membiayai sesuatu usaha secara beramai-ramai) bagi membantu masjid mengumpul dana, memadankan sukarelawan dengan projek kemasyarakatan serta projek keusahawanan sosial bagi membolehkan suri rumah mengambil tempahan makanan daripada jemaah di masjid.

    Turut hadir dalam acara penyampaian hadiah peraduan itu semalam ialah Menteri Perhubungan dan Penerangan (MCI), Dr Yaacob Ibrahim, yang berkata inisiatif itu sejajar dengan usaha negara menjadi Negara Bijak.

    “Pemerintah boleh sediakan prasarana Negara Bijak tetapi apa yang perlu dibangunkan ialah aplikasi.

    “Ini tidak boleh datang daripada pemerintah tetapi daripada mereka yang berminat dan mampu menghuraikan satu cabaran,” ujar Dr Yaacob semasa ditemui media di acara itu.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

  • No Booking Function In LTA’s New App

    No Booking Function In LTA’s New App

    The Land Transport Authority’s (LTA) launched an application on Wednesday (Dec 17) that allows commuters to check for available taxis in their vicinity, or broadcast their location to taxi drivers.

    But the app’s lack of a booking service drew criticism from some netizens, with one comparing it to “having a Playstation 4 but no games to play”.

    Mr Calvin Cheng wrote in a Facebook post: “This is genius. Creating an app that tells you where the nearest taxis are, but doesn’t allow you to book. So what are people meant to do? Hunt down available taxis on foot?”

     

    On Wednesday afternoon, local blogger Mr Brown started the #RenameTaxiAppByLTA hashtag on Twitter, which swiftly gained traction. By 5.37pm, it had become a local trending topic, according to Twitter trends tracker Trendsmap Singapore, with many tweeting alternative names for the app such as Right Here Waiting.

    However, some commuters did like the app. Mr ZY Chong commented on LTA’s Facebook page that detractors were off the mark, and even described the app as a game-changer: “You guys are missing the point. This app gives access to location data of ALL taxis. It’s a game changer feature that is not available in any third party app.”

    Another netizen said on Twitter that the app would be good for those who do not want to pay booking fees.

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