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  • Frozen Yogurt Chain Llaollao To Be Investigated By Tripartite Aliance For Fair And Progressive Employment Practice

    Frozen Yogurt Chain Llaollao To Be Investigated By Tripartite Aliance For Fair And Progressive Employment Practice

    Frozen yogurt chain Llaollao has apologised to a local Punjabi woman who was reportedly turned away from a part-time position at an outlet because she could not speak Mandarin.

    The Tripartite Alliance for Fair and Progressive Employment Practices (TAFEP) is also investigating the incident for possibly violating employment guidelines, reported TODAY.

    Karish Kaur related the experience via her Facebook page on 7 January, explaining how she was turned away during a walk-in interview at West Mall’s outlet after telling a manager she did not speak Mandarin.

    “Why is it that the onus is now on me to learn a whole new language just so I am able to attain a part-time job at an F&B outlet?” she wrote. “Are we not taking into account the fact that this is a multiracial country and that (surprise surprise) there are people who do not speak Chinese?”

    Llaollao posted an apology on its Facebook page on January 13, saying it was “deeply sorry for the insensitivity shown”.

    Llaollao’s country manager Edwin Ferroa also personally apologised to Karish in an email on 11 January, adding that the West Mall franchisee will stop walk-in interviews for the time being in order to give staff more adequate training “to treat potential employees better”.

    After conducting its own investigations, Llaollao told TODAY that the person who turned Karish away was not an employee, but a wife of one of the franchise owners. Llaollao’s management has since warned all franchisees not to allow unauthorised people into their kitchens.

     

    Source: https://sg.news.yahoo.com

  • Malacca Government Supports Chinese Peranakans Bid For Bumiputra Status

    Malacca Government Supports Chinese Peranakans Bid For Bumiputra Status

    The Malacca government has declared its backing of a move by the state’s Peranakan Chinese to obtain Bumiputera status, pointing out the community had played a pivotal role in protecting the state from attackers during the early days of the Sultanate.

    According to The Star today (Dec 18), Chief Minister Idris Haron said his administration already regards the community, which is said to have settled in the bustling southern state from as early as the 14th century, as Malacca’s indigenous people.

    “Based on historical facts, they arrived on this soil with noble intentions and they extended their friendship to the Malacca Sultanate,” Mr Idris was quoted saying after a meeting with the state executive council yesterday.

    As such, the chief minister said his government will support the Peranakan Chinese Association of Malaysia’s (PCAM) bid to secure Bumiputera status for the community.

    He also called for more documentation to endorse the community as the state’s indigenous people.

    According to the English daily, it has been reported that PCAM president Ronald Gan is seeking to endorse Malacca’s Peranakan Chinese as Bumiputeras, along with the state’s Malay and Portugese communities.

    The paper said Gan had reasoned that the Peranakan Chinese were recognised as Malays when the Malay Customary Land was established under the Malacca Land Customary Rights Ordinance, which was drawn up under British rule between 1826 and 1957. THE MALAY MAIL ONLINE

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • Straits Times Forum Writer Urges Locals To Learn The Malay Language

    Straits Times Forum Writer Urges Locals To Learn The Malay Language

    WHILE I was on an exchange programme at the Lycee Francais de Singapour in Ang Mo Kio, I realised that most of the students learnt at least three languages.

    In fact, many people around the world are now trilingual in English, Mandarin and a language used by their neighbouring country.

    Singaporeans, however, study only two languages in school – English and our mother tongue.

    With Malay being a common language used by our neighbours such as Malaysia and Indonesia, and with many Singaporeans travelling to these countries for short trips, perhaps it would be useful to offer lessons in conversational Malay to students.

    In my school, everyone had to learn conversational Malay for two years. During that time, we had the chance to taste Malay cuisine and experience eating using our hands.

    Learning another language is useful as, in doing so, we can better understand its culture, something that is important in a multiracial society like Singapore.

    Whether we use it in the future or not, it is always better to be able to know the gist of the language, so we can apply it if necessary.

    Jong Ching Yee (Ms)

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • Basuki Tjahaja Purnama: Orang Cina Pertama Menjadi Gabenor Jakarta

    Basuki Tjahaja Purnama: Orang Cina Pertama Menjadi Gabenor Jakarta

    Ahli politik lantang Indonesia, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama hari ini mengangkat sumpah sebagai gabenor Jakarta, sekali gus menjadikannya orang Cina pertama memegang jawatan itu.

    Beliau yang sebelum ini memegang jawatan timbalan gabenor dilantik sebagai gabenor selepas presiden Indonesia, Joko Widodo atau Jokowi (kanan) menang pilihan raya Julai lalu.

    Kumpulan garis keras Front Pembela Islam (FPI) menolak pelantikan Basuki kerana didakwa tidak ‘mesra’ terhadap orang Islam di republik itu melalui beberapa perhimpunan jalanan.

    Basuki, yang terkenal dengan sikap lantang dan suka berdebat meminta kerajaan membubarkan kumpulan itu dengan mengaitkannya dengan unsur anarki dan keganasan.

    Basuki atau lebih dikenali sebagai Ahok pada bulan ini bagaimanapun meminta maaf kepada umat Islam jika kenyataannya itu menyinggung perasaan.

    “Saya mohon maaf jika kamu fikir saya kurang ajar,” beliau dipetik sebagai berkata ketika perhimpunan Majlis Ulama Indonesia Indonesia.

    Beliau merupakan penganut Kristian kedua dilantik sebagai gabenor Jakarta.

    Semasa pemerintahan 32 tahun Suharto (kiri), bangsa Cina menjadi mangsa diskriminasi sosial dan politik.

    Dominasi kaum Cina dalam ekonomi sering mencetuskan kemarahan di kalangan segelintir rakyat Indonesia dan menjadikan mereka terdedah kepada serangan semasa pergolakan sosial.

    Pengganti Suharto, Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie membubarkan undang-undang diskriminasi terhadap kaum Cina.

    Selain itu, mantan presiden Indonesia Abdurrahman Wahid selepas itu mengisytiharkan Tahun Baru Cina sebagai hari cuti kebangsaan pada tahun 2002.

    – dpa

     

    Source: www.malaysiakini.com

  • Singaporeans Less Open to Inter-Racial Dating

    Singaporeans Less Open to Inter-Racial Dating

    SINGAPORE – Despite interracial marriages being on the rise here, most Singaporeans still prefer dating within their own race, data from a major dating agency here has shown.

    Last year, 20.9 per cent of marriages registered here involved couples of different races, up from 20.7 per cent in 2012.

    But of the almost 1,000 Singaporean members of dating agency Lunch Actually, 92.5 per cent would rather not date people of other ethnicities.

    This is a higher proportion than 89.6 per cent of the agency’s members in Hong Kong, and 76.6 per cent of those in Malaysia.

    Altogether, the data analysed was from close to 3,000 of the agency’s members in the three territories. It takes into consideration the clients’ first preferences for their ideal partner.

    Lunch Actually CEO Violet Lim, 34, theorises the results may be because most of the agency’s Singaporean clientele are Chinese.

    “Social conditioning and family expectations may lead to them to prefer to date other Chinese people first,” she said. “It’s not necessarily that they’re not open to dating other races, but the people who join our dating agency are generally looking to settle down and have to think about factors such as finding somebody their family might approve of.

    “It’s important to realise there is a difference between a person’s first dating preferences and the person they actually end up being compatible with.”

    Of the 996 clients surveyed in Singapore, 488 women and 462 men were Chinese.

    The data was analysed by data analytics company Qlik using its app called Qlik Sense. Qlik then worked with Lunch Actually to combine the app with the agency’s data into a new app, which generates graphs and charts that show such dating trends. This new app, The Ideal Partner, can be downloaded for free from http://www.qlik.com/datingtrends.

    Other results produced by the new app also showed more “traditional preferences” among the singles surveyed in all three territories, Ms Lim said.

    For instance, men across all age ranges showed a preference for women in their 20s. While younger women preferred men aged 30 to 35, older women aged 45 to 50 seemed more inclined towards younger men aged 25 to 35.

    Close to 80 per cent of the men surveyed did not want to date divorcees, and 93.8 per cent preferred not to date people who already have children. Women were more open on this front, with 33.5 per cent willing to date divorcees and 12.9 per cent willing to date those with children.

    Ms Lim hopes to use the data to understand her clientele better and to help them manage their expectations.

    “People are wired to look for certain things in their ideal partners,” she said. “If we share this data with them, they might realise some expectations are unrealistic and consider being more open about who they are willing to go out with.”

    The next step will be to analyse how closely the clients’ visions of their ideal partners correspond to the people they are matched with.

    Qlik Sense can be adapted to analyse other sets of data. Qlik Asia’s vice president Terry Smagh, 38, said: “The ability to take data such as these survey statistics from Lunch Actually and drop it into Qlik Sense for visual analysis is something that many businesses, including small and medium enterprises in singapore, will find valuable.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com