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  • Thank You Inspector Fariz Bin Mohamad Noor For Your Assistance In Helping Your Neighbour To Catch A Snake

    Thank You Inspector Fariz Bin Mohamad Noor For Your Assistance In Helping Your Neighbour To Catch A Snake

    On 27 Nov 2017, a snake was spotted in my HDB unit at Bukit Batok at around 12:15PM. We contacted the police hotline and seek for assistance. The operator for the police hotline advised my brother to contact Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) instead. Upon the arrival of AVA at around 2:40PM, the snake was missing in the house despite our constant monitoring. Therefore, the personnel from ACRES advised my family to contact them again should the snake appear again. Our neighbour, Inspector Fariz Bin Mohamad Noor of Clementi Police Division came to know about the incident as my family members shared with him about the incident earlier on. He assured my family members and told us that if we find the snake again at home, feel free to contact him anytime.

    For the entire day on 27 Nov 2017, we could not find the snake in the house until late morning of 28 Nov 2017. I contacted Agri-Food & Veterinary Authority of Singapore (AVA) immediately and the operator said the team would need about 30 minutes to arrive. Although it was identified by AVA through a WhatsApp photo that it’s a Paradise Tree Snake, I contacted Inspector Fariz for his assistance. Despite, Inspector Fariz was not being at home at the point of time, he extended his help to assist my family and I in capturing the snake before the arrival of AVA personnel. He released the snake back to its habitat after capturing it.

    My family and I will like to express our deepest gratitude and compliment towards the courageous and helpful Inspector Fariz, who goes beyond his core duties as a law enforcer to provide help for people around him and has shown extraordinary compassion to living creatures. He truly demonstrated the ‘Kampong Spirit’ in assisting those that are in need of help. Singapore Police Force will always have my full respect and support.

    Thank you Inspector Fariz, it’s truly honourable to have a have a selfless officer in the Singapore Police Force. Please continue to serve with pride and dignity for the people of Singapore.

     

     

    Source: Wong

  • Malaysia Ready To Provide Temporary Shelter For Rohingya Fleeing Violence; Coast Guard Will Not Turn The Away

    Malaysia Ready To Provide Temporary Shelter For Rohingya Fleeing Violence; Coast Guard Will Not Turn The Away

    Malaysia’s coast guard will not turn away Rohingya Muslims fleeing violence in Myanmar and is willing to provide temporary shelter for them, the maritime agency’s chief said on Friday.

    Rohingya insurgents attacked several police posts and an army base in Myanmar on Aug. 25. The ensuing clashes and a military counter-offensive has killed at least 400 people and triggered the exodus of more than 160,000 people to neighbouring Bangladesh.

    Malaysia, hundreds of km (miles) to the south on the Andaman Sea, is likely to see more boat people from Myanmar in coming weeks and months because of the renewed violence, said Zulkifli Abu Bakar, the director general of Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency. Malaysia is already home to over 100,000 Rohingya refugees.

    “We are supposed to provide basic necessities for them to continue their journey and push them away. But at the end of the day, because of humanitarian reasons, we will not be able to do that,” Zulkifli told Reuters, adding that no fresh refugees had been seen yet.

    Malaysia, a Muslim-majority nation, will likely house the Rohingya refugees in immigration detention centres, where foreigners without documents are typically held, he said.

    Malaysia, which has not signed the U.N. Refugee Convention, treats refugees as illegal migrants.

    Thailand has also said it is preparing to receive people fleeing the fighting in Myanmar

    There are about 59,000 Rohingya refugees registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Malaysia although unofficial numbers are almost double that.

    In 2015, mass graves were exhumed at jungle camps on the border between Thailand and Malaysia that were thought to be mainly Rohingya victims of human traffickers.

    (Reporting by A. Ananthalakshmi; Editing by Raju Gopalakrishnan)

     

    Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Makcik Homeless After Fire Gutted Home, Kind Neighbour Took Her In

    Makcik Homeless After Fire Gutted Home, Kind Neighbour Took Her In

    A kind resident took in her neighbour after a fire in the latter’s flat, allowing the family of three to lodge in her home temporarily.

    The fire had broken out in the second-storey flat at Block 372, Jurong East Street 32 on Friday morning (Aug 4).

    Stomp earlier reported on the incident in which seven people were conveyed to hospitals for treatment after inhaling smoke.

    A 62-year-old woman and her two daughters were the occupants of the affected flat.

    After the incident, one of her daughters revealed that she had been using a hair curler, and had placed it on a mattress, after turning off the electricity.

    Later on, there was smoke and the smell of something burning, before the mattress finally caught fire.

    Said the 62-year-old mother: “I was at the market that morning when I received a call from my daughter telling me that there was a strong burning smell.

    “I immediately rushed home, and my daughters wanted to move the mattress out of the unit. However, it suddenly caught fire.”

    The fire spread fast and a neighbour, living in the unit beside theirs, was trapped in her home.

    The 58-year-old neighbour recalled: “I was on medical leave that day. I smelt something burning in the morning, but I was groggy from my fever.

    “Later I heard my husband shouting that something was burning. We opened our door and found a fire in the corridor.

    “There was nowhere we could run to. We were trapped. I started crying and screaming for help. Then I recalled that my neighbour could not move well, and I called her.”

    She said that fortunately, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) arrived in time, and the couple climbed down to safety using a ladder.

    According to her, this was not the first time a fire had broken out in the block.

    She told Shin Min Daily News: “Two years ago, a unit on the left had caught fire at around 3a, in the morning, so this is the second time already.”

    Although the affected flat’s owner has since received keys to a rental flat, her neighbour still insisted that the family stay with her for the time being.

    The neighbour added: “We’re neighbours, so it’s only right that we help each other out.”

     

    Source: http://stomp.straitstimes.com

  • Jufrie Mahmood: Millionaire PAP Ministers Have Lost Touch, Don’t Understand Anxieties Of Common Singaporeans

    Jufrie Mahmood: Millionaire PAP Ministers Have Lost Touch, Don’t Understand Anxieties Of Common Singaporeans

    Minister Lawrence Wong and his cabinet colleagues don’t live in 99-year lease HDB flats.

    With their millions, chances are, they would be living in landed free-hold properties in choice areas. Their properties are for keeps which they can pass on to their succeeding generations.

    They therefore don’t have the anxieties that we ordinary mortals have.

    That is the difference.

    Unlike your COE for motor vehicles the HDB and most other private properties’ COE is for 99 years.

     

    Source: Mohamed Jufrie Bin Mahmood

     

  • Leong Sze Hian: $324.2b Owed To CPF Members?

    Leong Sze Hian: $324.2b Owed To CPF Members?

    I refer to the article “Why does Singapore have an external debt of US$1.766 trillion?” (Straits Times, Dec 28).

    Govt “invests all the proceeds which it has borrowed”

    It states that “A Government article on the subject explains that Singapore does not borrow to spend. Instead, it invests all the proceeds which it has borrowed.

    Total outstanding Government borrowings is S$436b

    The income which it earns from its investments is also more than sufficient to cover the debt servicing costs. As of March this year, the total outstanding Government borrowings stood at S$436 billion.

    The Government issues three types of domestic debts:

    * Singapore Government Securities to develop the domestic debt market;

    CPF is part of domestic debts

    * Special Singapore Government Securities to meet the investment needs of the Central Provident Fund, and

    * Singapore Saving Bonds to provide individual investors with a long-term saving option that offers safe returns.

    What is also important to note is that unlike some other countries which have to raise funds in currencies such as the US dollar or euro to balance their books, the Government does not have any foreign currency debts.”

    Amount due to CPF members is $324.2b

    According to the Department of Statistics’ Monthly Digest of Statistics – the Amount Due to (CPF) Members is $324.2 billion in October, 2016.

    This has been increasing steadily annually from $150.9 million in January 1961.

    % credited to CPF members – “na” from 1961 to 2001?

    The Interest Credited to CPF members is shown as “na” from January 1961 to December 2001.

    % in 2002 was 2.6%?

    For January 2002 – the Interest Credited was $238 million over the Amount Due to Members of $92.9 billion.

    This works out to an annual interest of only about 2.6 per cent.

    % in 2006 was 3.1%?

    Similarly, for October 2016 – the Interest Credited was $1.02 billion over the Amount Due to Members of $324.2 billion.

    This works out to an annual interest of about 3.1 per cent (up to October).

    Real % was 0.5% from 2001 to 2015?

    Since inflation from 2001 to 2015 was about 2 per cent per annum (CPI 2015 99.461 divided by 2001 75.568) – does it mean that the real annualised rate of return on our CPF Ordinary Account is only about 0.5 per cent (2.5 – 2.0) per annum?

    Lowest real % of all national pension funds in the world?

    Is this the lowest real rate of return of all national pension funds in the world since 1999 – the year that I understand that the CPF Ordinary Account interest rate has remained at 2.5 per cent until now?

    Returns from investing our CPF?

    What is the annualised rate of return derived from investing our CPF funds since 1999?

    In this connection, I would like to quote again – “A Government article on the subject explains that Singapore does not borrow to spend. Instead, it invests all the proceeds which it has borrowed“.

    Cumulative returns from investing our CPF vs % to CPF members?

    What is the cumulative difference between the annualised rate of return derived from investing our CPF funds since 1961 (when CPF started) to today, and the annualised rate given to CPF members?

    In absolute numbers on a cumulative basis with interest – how much money are we talking about over the last 55 years?

    No transparency and accountability?

    Are we the only developing or developed country in the world that is arguably non-transparent, as there is no disclosure on the rate of return derived from our pension funds relative to the weighted average interest rate paid on all our CPF accounts (Ordinary, Special, Medisave and Retirement accounts)?

    $324.2b owed to CPF members?

    Also, does it mean that our domestic debt owed to CPF members is $324.2 billion?

     

    Source: http://leongszehian.com