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  • Singaporeans Support Petition To Retain Sungei Road Flea Market

    Singaporeans Support Petition To Retain Sungei Road Flea Market

    The Sungei Road flea market’s last day of operation is on July 10 but the hawkers are hoping to be given an alternative or temporary site that will allow them to continue their business.

    On Thursday (Feb 23), Mr Koh Ah Koon, 76, the president of the Association for the Recycling of Second Hand Goods, unfurled a banner at Sungei Road calling for the site to be conserved.

    Speaking to The Straits Times later, Mr Koh said he was saddened but hopes an alternative site can be allocated for the hawkers.

    “We don’t need a permanent location and can move. We hope the government can give us a temporary site so that our lifestyle and this aspect of local heritage can be retained.”

    He said he has printed 10 banners and plans to collect signatures till July to support calls for the site to be “conserved” or retained. By 7pm on Feb 23, he had collected about 200 signatures.

    The Government said the free hawking zone has to make way for future residential developments in a multi-agency statement last Tuesday.

    Mr Koh’s association, which represents about 70 of 200 vendors at the flea market, had previously proposed four alternative sites – next to Rochor River, at Kampong Bugis along Kallang River, behind Sim Lim Tower and a roadside near Jalan Kubor Malay cemetery.

    But the authorities said the four sites had been zoned for parks and residential use under Master Plan 2014.

    After the Government announcement, the association submitted a fresh appeal to extend the deadline until the end of the year. If that fails, it hopes to secure a temporary site in Jalan Besar behind a hawker centre.

    Mr Kalay V., 45, a businessman who signed the petition said: “This provides the elderly hawkers a legitimate source of income and can be seen as an engagement programme for seniors – not that different from those run by community centres.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com

  • MLM Company: Work 10 Hours A Week From Home, Earn $4000

    MLM Company: Work 10 Hours A Week From Home, Earn $4000

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    So I’m trying to sleep but can’t because I am seriously disturbed. I went to an Amway meeting earlier today, after someone approached me with a “business opportunity”. I immediately suspected that something was off, so I came into the meeting skeptical and even secretly took some videos.

    They drew a pyramid scheme model during the presentation and tried to argue that it isn’t; they talked about income earners as Employees/Self-employed/Business owners/Investora and tried to argue that everyone in Amway is a business owner… the saddest part is that all these uni kids who have been brainwashed into thinking that they’re business owners are actually the very employees that they dissed on in their presentation. No, they’re worse actually, they’re the product.

    There were quite a few attendees to the meeting, many of whom were students. One was even a business student… while I’m sure some of them caught on as the seriously dodgy Amway videos were being played, I noticed the majority were already being lured in. After the meeting, there was a chat session with the upline (the person who recruited you), and some of the clueless participants were expressing intense interest. A few more families are gonna be ruined and I really wish I had just shouted out to everyone that it was basically a scam.

    I did try to argue with several of the uplines after the meeting was over. It went smth like this:

    “How is this not MLM?” “Do you know what the Singaporean law defines as MLM? If not, you should do your homework and come talk to us again. But basically, MLMs require a large startup cost, but Amway doesn’t have that.” “But in order to join this business, I have to pay a subscribers fee and buy all my household products from Amway instead right?” “Yes, but the subscribers fee is only $70. Also, you need household products anyway, so it’s not a real cost”
    After this point, they just kept repeating smth along the lines of “Ok, I can explain to you in detail, but it will take very long. Why don’t you come for the next meeting and we can explain further?”

    Also, at the end of the presentation, the presenter stated that we can earn $4000 a month for working from home 10 hours a week. Of course, they didn’t state that that’s only possible when you have a shit ton of downlines. In fact they framed it in a way like as if that’s the starting pay when you join

    What really made me sick was when they had a bunch of people go up and give testimonies, saying how their “mentor” helped so much with their life and transformed them into better people. Three around the words “integrity”, “honesty”, etc no less than 30 times. This is probably the closest to Scientology that I will experience in Singapore. It was like Christian Fellowship except the God is money and the Bible are the complete bullshit fluffass books written by the successful Amway “businessmen”. And instead of trying to do good, they’re trying to frame “scamming your friends and family” as good.

    TL;DR: Witnessed first hand Amway’s recruiting tactics. Please be skeptical if anyone ever tells you about a “business opportunity”. If you hear “Amway” or see someone draw you a pyramid diagram, run.

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

  • Malaysia Seeking To Revise Judgment On Pedra Branca Citing New Facts, Singapore Forms Legal Team To Study Challenge

    Malaysia Seeking To Revise Judgment On Pedra Branca Citing New Facts, Singapore Forms Legal Team To Study Challenge

    Malaysia, citing “new facts” discovered in recently declassified British documents, has filed a challenge to the 2008 decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that ruled Pedra Branca to be Singaporean territory.

    Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in response that the Republic is “studying Malaysia’s application and documentation closely”, and has formed a legal team to respond to Malaysia’s challenge.

    The Singapore legal team includes Attorney-General Lucien Wong, former Deputy Prime Minister S Jayakumar, Professor Tommy Koh and former Chief Justice Chan Sek Keong.

    Malaysian Attorney-General Mohamed Apandi Ali filed the application with the ICJ at The Hague on Thursday (Feb 2) over the sovereignty of Pedra Branca, which is located some 24 nautical miles to the east of Singapore. The Republic was alerted overnight through the formal channels of the High Commission and the International Court of Justice.

    “The application was made by Malaysia upon the discovery of some fact of such a nature as to be a decisive factor, which fact was, when the judgment was given, unknown to the Court and also to Malaysia as the party claiming revision,” Mr Apandi said in a statement on Friday.

    He added: “We are also confident that the requirements as stipulated under Article 61 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice have been met in that, inter alia, the application for revision is brought within six months of the discovery of the new fact, and within 10 years of the date of the Judgment.”

    It is early days yet in the court process, with the panel of judges to hear the case yet to be formed. Both sides will have a say in the appointment of the judges, and the number of judges on the panel is yet to be determined.

     

    The Malaysian statement did not disclose details of the “new facts”. TODAY understands that three new facts were submitted. In response to queries from TODAY, Mr Apandi would only say that these were “discovered after the British Government declassified the documents recently”. Asked to identify the specific documents, he said: “Not now…when Singapore is being notified, they will be served with the relevant papers.”

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

     

  • Teenage Muslim Weddings In Malaysia

    Teenage Muslim Weddings In Malaysia

    KLUANG (THE STAR/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) – A 15-year-old boy ended his bachelorhood early when he married his 17-year-old girlfriend here after dating for about two months.

    Muhd Muaz Mislan, 15, and Nur Izzati Amiera Ishak, 17, tied the knot on Nov 30 and captured the attention of social media after the newlyweds posted photos and a video of their akad nikah (solemnisation ceremony) on Facebook.

    In his posting, Muhd Muaz said he wanted to marry the girl to make their relationship legal after receiving both families’ nod.

    “Young marriage will stir talk from others; but I am ready,” he added.

    Muhd Muaz, who is believed to be waiting for his Form 3 Assessment result, is said to have decided to discontinue his studies next year.

    The video footage showed that Muhd Muaz and Nur Izzati’s marriage was solemnised with a wedding dowry of RM22.50 (S$8.40).

    Nur Izzati has just completed her Sijil Pelajaran Malaysia (SPM) examinations.

    For Muslims, the legal age of marriage for is 18 for males and 16 for females. With the permission of the syariah court, however, Muslims can marry at any age.

    In Malacca, 15-year-old Nurulain Mohammad married businessman Zulhelmi Kaharudin, 21, at a mass akad nikah (solemnisation of marriage) ceremony at the Malacca International Trade Centre in Ayer Keroh on Sunday.

    Nurulain and Mr Zulhelmi, 21, had the blessings of their respective families. From the start, their love story was not a secret.

    Mr Zulhelmi, who runs a restaurant business, said he was brought up in a strict family.

    “Neither of us dared to meet secretly.”

    The eldest of three siblings said he encouraged his new bride to study right up to tertiary education level. “Only after that will we have children,” he said.

    “She is still a girl but I will guide her with the right values,” he said.

    The couple saw each other while walking around the neighbourhood. Mr Zulhelmi said it was love at first sight.

    “She was walking back from school a few days later when I said ‘I love you’. To my surprise, she said the same back to me.”

     

    Source: www.straitstimes.com