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  • MHA: Foreign Companies Need Permit To Sponsor, Promote Or Participate In Speakers’ Corner Events

    MHA: Foreign Companies Need Permit To Sponsor, Promote Or Participate In Speakers’ Corner Events

    Foreign companies will need a permit to sponsor, publicly promote or get its employees to participate in events at the Speakers’ Corner, stated the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Friday afternoon (Oct 21).

    For the first time, the ministry made clear what a Singapore entity was: those incorporated or registered in Singapore and controlled by a majority of Singapore citizens.

    The entity’s directors must be mostly Singaporean, and the majority of its ownership must be held by Singaporeans or one or more Singapore companies.

    Meanwhile, the ministry is loosening rules for local entities organising events at the Speakers’ Corner. From next month, Singapore companies or non-government organisations no longer need permits to hold events at the Speakers’ Corner. Now, only Singapore citizens are exempted.

    In its news release on the amendments to the rules, the ministry reiterated that the Speakers’ Corner was set up in 2000 for Singaporeans to express their views on issues that concern them.

    “The Government’s position has always been that foreign entities should not interfere in our domestic issues, especially those of a political or controversial nature,” said the MHA. “The amendments reinforce the key principle that the Speakers’ Corner was set up primarily for Singaporeans.”

    MHA is also extending the rules to those who participate at Speakers’ Corner events through remote means. So foreign entities will also need a permit if they speak through teleconferecing or pre-recorded messages at the Speakers’ Corner.

    These changes come on the back of reviews to Speakers’ Corner rules which the MHA started in June. The ministry had wanted to “make it clear that foreign entities should not fund, support or influence” events held at Speakers’ Corner, such as June 4’s Pink Dot – the annual lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rally.

    This year’s Pink Dot – the eighth such – attracted 18 sponsors including multinational companies such as Google, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Visa and General Electric.

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • OK If You Don’t Play Pokèmon Go, Not OK To Be A Kill-Joy About It

    OK If You Don’t Play Pokèmon Go, Not OK To Be A Kill-Joy About It

    Singapore is still breeding a bunch of inessential pessimistic individuals who are strong joykillers of Pokèmon Go.

    “I would rather spend my time with my family.” “I prefer doing other useful things other than finding for virtual animals.” “Why find Pokèmons? Doesn’t give you actual money, also.” “So anti-social, everywhere looking at their phones.” “Just waiting for someone to get killed by a car.”

    If you don’t play, you can stuff your opinions up where the sun don’t shine.So you’re the minority where your voices aren’t heard, you don’t go out to enjoy being around other Pokèmon catchers, you don’t drain your battery finding virtual rare animals, basically ’cause you’re just being a whining grouch.

    We have families actually going out together all around Singapore, enjoying each other’s company, getting excited and they’re…..happy. Singapore is just so stressed out with what’s going on and that’s what we need. Happiness.

    If you find happiness within the 4 walls of your house, well, HERE, HAVE A MEDAL, then. If you’re not into all this hype, then shush, honey.

    We have all been to (almost) every part of Singapore but with Pokèmon Go, you get to experience certain places where you’ve never been to before….with your family and friends.

    Basically we’re happy doing what we do and we don’t owe the minority of you nothing. We never used your money for Pokè Coins, Pokè Balls, or Lure Modules. You guys don’t get us who enjoy a game, neither do we understand your choice for being a sourpuss.

    Have a great National Day, and we’ll probably see you guys outside your house because there’s a Dratini. Toodles!

     

    Source: Rabiatul Adawiyah Yusak

  • Mohamed Jufrie Mahmood: We Want Justice For Zulfikar Shariff

    Mohamed Jufrie Mahmood: We Want Justice For Zulfikar Shariff

    Justice for Zulfikar.

    The government detains him for his opposing views, portraying him as someone who supports terrorism but at the same time it keeps a blind eye to the terrorism, murder and genocide committed by its friends in Israel. What hypocrisy!

    In actual fact the atrocities committed by Israel are the major contributing factor for the rise of extremists and terrorism that we are witnessing today.

     

    Source: Mohamed Jufrie Mahmood

  • Couple With 19 Month Old Baby Cannot Survive On Husband’s $1200 Pay, Expecting Another Child

    Couple With 19 Month Old Baby Cannot Survive On Husband’s $1200 Pay, Expecting Another Child

    Good afternoon Mr Gilbert.

    I need your help…right now I am facing a financial melt down.

    My hubby has been sacked by a company last year and he managed to get a contract job as a packer earning $1200 to sustain the whole family.

    But his income is not enough to stretch till his next pay day.

    I myself is a stay-at-home mum and currently pregnant with our second child. We are currently staying at my parents’ place.

    My first child is 19 months old and I need a favour from you just for this month.

    I need some help for my first child milk Friso stage 3 and pampers size XL and some money for us to survive till 4th July – my husband’s next pay day.

    Right now my son milk is running low and this is his last tin of milk.

    Totally we have no money on hand. I hope you could help us just this month.

    Anything you can get back to me.

    Anonymous

     

    Source: www.transitioning.org

  • Grandma Sues Grandkids For Trying To Sell HDB Flat

    Grandma Sues Grandkids For Trying To Sell HDB Flat

    Madam Tan Teck Soon says, for 26 years, she has paid the Housing Board $277 each month – mortgage instalments for the three- room flat that she lives in.

    She paid over $117,000, including upgrading costs and conservancy charges, said the 76-year-old canteen vendor, but she might soon have to leave her home. In March, she said, she learnt her granddaughters were trying to sell the flat.

    To stop this, she has sued both Ms Michelle Ng Li Xuan, 26, and Ms Isabella Ng Su Xi, 25.

    The case is pending in the High Court, and the two sides met for a pre-trial conference on Tuesday, said lawyer Chia Boon Teck, who is representing Madam Tan pro bono.

    Both sisters are registered owners of the flat, which they inherited when their father died in 2009.

    But Madam Tan said she had single-handedly paid for the flat since its purchase in 1990. Her granddaughters were only holding it in trust for her, she said. In her affidavit, she said they were trying to sell it and “swallow” the proceeds.

    The 10th-storey flat in Bedok South was bought under the name of her son – the sisters’ father, Mr Ng King Nguang – said Madam Tan, who was then registered as co-owner of another flat with her older son. The disputed flat has an estimated value of about $330,000 now.

    “The flat was registered under Ng’s sole name at that time with the understanding between Ng and me that I was the sole owner,” she said, adding that she paid the initial sum of $20,000 for the down payment and renovations.

    She was registered as an owner of the flat in 1992, after the other flat was sold. But seven years later, Mr Ng chalked up about $100,000 in debts, she said. He then purportedly asked her for help. She said he wanted her to sell him her share of the flat so he could get an HDB loan on the pretext of paying her.

    She said she did not get any money from the sale, but lent him $61,000 instead. He used the entire sum to pay creditors, she said.

    “I’m not a lawyer. I didn’t understand the implications. My son and I understood the flat still belonged to me,” she told The Straits Times.

    In 1992, Mr Ng divorced his wife, who got custody of Michelle. Isabella, about one then, grew up in the flat with her father and Madam Tan.

    In 2009, Mr Ng died after a heart attack. The sisters inherited the flat, along with his mortgage life insurance payout of $40,200.

    “I did not understand how (they) could sell the flat and throw me onto the streets when I had paid for the flat entirely single-handedly,” Madam Tan said in her affidavit.

    Both sisters denied trying to sell the flat without her knowledge.

    Ms Michelle Ng disputed that Madam Tan had made all payments for the flat. “What I understand is that my dad was the one doing the payments,” she said, adding that she and her sister let Madam Tan live there as it was near Madam Tan’s workplace.

    Ms Ng said Madam Tan made some payments for the flat after Mr Ng died, but that was because Madam Tan was living there then.

    Ms Ng said the flat was an asset passed down to both sisters by their father, which they should be able to sell, and they had offered Madam Tan an alternative place to live – with Ms Isabella Ng at her upcoming BTO flat in Choa Chu Kang.

    Said Ms Michelle Ng, a former marketing executive: “I’m not working at the moment. I’m expecting my second child. I’m not taking the money to go and enjoy myself.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com