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  • Charles Chong: Handover of Punggol East Accounts From WP ‘On Track’

    Charles Chong: Handover of Punggol East Accounts From WP ‘On Track’

    The handover of Punggol East Single-Member Constituency’s accounts from the Workers’ Party (WP)-run Aljunied-Hougang Town Council (AHTC) to Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council has been progressing, and both parties are eager to “move on”, said Punggol East Member of Parliament Charles Chong on Wednesday (Oct 7).

    The handover is on track to be completed before Dec 1, which is the Ministry of National Development’s (MND) deadline, he said.

    By then, Punggol East will be managed by the Pasir Ris-Punggol Town Council.

    “I think both sides are aiming for a good settlement so that we can move on. I don’t think it is in their interest — neither is it in ours — to drag this on. And it’s definitely not in the interest of the residents,” said Mr Chong, adding that he will request for the MND to restore its grants after getting a “clean set of accounts”.

    The MND has withheld two years of Government grants, totaling about S$14 million, from the former Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council, saying it has no guarantee the money would be used properly.

    During the General Election campaigning, the People’s Action Party (PAP) and the WP had disputed the estate’s financial position following the 2013 by-election, with the PAP claiming there was a surplus when Punggol East was handed over to WP, while WP claimed there was a deficit.

    To facilitate the handover, the AHTC has engaged an external auditor to audit Punggol East’s accounts from Apr 1. “Too many figures were thrown back and forth during the election,” said Mr Chong, who hopes the experts can reach an amiable conclusion promptly.

    “Everybody gave different snapshots of the same account. Everybody can more or less justify what they say, depending on the point in time when the thing happened. I suppose during election everybody sort of tries to use it to their advantage, (the) result of which causes more confusion than clarity.

    “Now that election is over … let the experts work it out, and see how it goes,” he said. “What happened in the past, I’m really not interested. I am just interested in what is due back to us.”

    Parties will meet later this week for an update. In the General Election last month, Mr Chong defeated the WP’s candidate and incumbent Lee Li Lian to win Punggol East back for the People’s Action Party.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • Singapore Education Sytem Produces “Sheeps” Who Cannot Think And Follow Blindly

    Singapore Education Sytem Produces “Sheeps” Who Cannot Think And Follow Blindly

    <Facebook post by Tan Kin Lian>

    The education system of the PAP has produced many people who cannot think but will follow their leaders blindly.

    If the leader introduces any stupid measure and tell them that this is to prevent terrorism or national defense, they will believe it it blindly and defend the measure totally. It does not matter that the measure is ineffective or wasteful.

    These people cannot judge whether the money is spend correctly. It is easy to fool them. They cannot think and are gullible. This is due to brainwashing by the mainstream media.

    The remind me of the sheep in the novel, Animal Farm.

     

    Source: www.allsingaporestuff.com

  • Schizophrenic Convicted Of Sending Threatening Facebook Messages To Lee Hsien Loong

    Schizophrenic Convicted Of Sending Threatening Facebook Messages To Lee Hsien Loong

    In what is believed to be the first case of its kind, a 33-year-old Singaporean man has been found guilty on Tuesday (Oct 6) of sending threatening messages to Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong via Facebook.

    Tan Yeong Hong said he became frustrated when he attended a Meet the People’s Session (MPS) in PM Lee’s Ang Mo Kio ward on Jun 24 this year, only to find that the PM would not be there.

    Tan said he attended the MPS to pass the PM “an article he had typed out”. He had to settle for passing the letter to a grassroots leader instead.

    In the four threatening messages he sent to the PM, Tan said: “Eh, you challenged me to visit your MPS but you are not here. I will find and stage an attack on you when I have information on your public appearances. You know who I am”.

    Tan also included his NRIC number and handphone number in the messages.

    A police report was lodged the next day by a Senior Manager of the Online Communications Unit of the Prime Minister’s Office, which manages the PM’s social media accounts.

    HE IS ‘VIOLENT … ALWAYS ARMED WITH A KNIFE’

    A team of investigating officers traced the messages to Tan, and a background check revealed that he lived at Block 108 Hougang Avenue 1, while his father lived in an old folks’ home and his mother had been admitted to hospital.

    Police interviewed Tan’s parents, who informed them at their son was “a violent person … always armed himself with a knife”.

    Hours later, police nabbed Tan close to his home. A hostile Tan punched a policeman on his shoulder and elbowed another in the face, but was eventually subdued and placed under arrest.

    In a search of Tan’s home, police found assorted dangerous weapons including a hammer, two choppers and several knives. Police also found a list of PM’s upcoming public appearances.

    Tan admitted that he had brought a hammer along to the MPS but never intended to use it.
    The man also disclosed that he had been approached 10 years ago by an unnamed Chinese male, and was “instructed to pass ‘data’ to PM Lee”. He claimed he “was being prompted by someone with a hidden audio and surveillance device” planted in his house.

    “The people in the audio and surveillance system told me to … throw a hammer at (PM) because he refused to take the document from me after he had asked me to prepare it”, Tan said.

    When District Judge Mathew Joseph asked if Tan had seen this device, Tan said that he had not.

    TAN SUFFERS FROM PARANOID SCHIZOPHRENIA

    Deputy Public Prosecutor Andre Chong said that psychiatric reports show that Tan suffers from paranoid schizophrenia, which had been left untreated at the time of his offences. The illness played “a large contributory role in (his) offending behavior”, according to the report. However, Tan was not found to be of unsound mind and is still fit to plead, the report concluded.

    Tan, who was unrepresented, said he is sorry for “the childish act” and asked for a light sentence because his mother has had knee surgery and is father is a stroke patient. “I was facing financial problems”, Tan said, in response to Judge Mathew’s question as to why he had sent the threats to the PM.

    “I think I’m living in a unit with a secret camera”, Tan told the court, and stated again that he had no intention of carrying out the threats.

    Judge Mathew, speaking to Tan directly, said this is “an extremely serious case, you are facing a stiff sentence”, and expressed concern that the accused did not realise the severity of the charges he is facing.

    When he heard that the prosecution intended to seek a sentence of 18 to 23 months’ jail, Tan did an about-turn and told the judge that he did in fact wish to engage counsel.

    The judge, having previously expressed his intention to refer Tan’s case to a voluntary lawyer “in the interests of justice and fairness” and “in light of the charges (Tan) is facing”, adjourned the matter until Oct 15, at which a lawyer for Tan is expected to be present.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • Chan Heng Chee Is Wrong – CMIO Categorisation Is Only PAP’s Tool To Subjugate And Discriminate Against The Minorities

    Chan Heng Chee Is Wrong – CMIO Categorisation Is Only PAP’s Tool To Subjugate And Discriminate Against The Minorities

    Rilek1Corner,

    As a Malay, I am insulted by the comments of the Ambassador-at-large Prof. Chan Heng Chee in http://rilek1corner.com/2015/10/05/singapore-ambassador-at-large-scrapping-cmio…. She want to defend the outdated CMIO categorisation that is her problem but what right does she have to say that scrapping it would cause so-called “unease” among minorities. She is Chinese. Not minority. Why she speaking like she macam faham?

    Worse still, she say “The majority community doesn’t feel uncomfortable. It’s (with) the minority community (where) you have to keep emphasising it’s equal language, religion, culture (and) race”. She is trying to say what? Minority races are petty? Minority races always comparing themselves with the majority? That minority races always imagining inequalities and discrimination? Then the majority race very good not racist at all?

    I want to say she is very wrong. She is from majority and she is elite. She doesn’t represent us. She ambassador she got talk to people on the ground in Singapore? Who make her expert on minority issue? She ambassador so what? Don’t mean everything she say is correct.

    I tell you, don’t be blinded by what she say. This is only wayang for them. Like she say, the CMIO categorisation is a “signal” to the minority that “every race has the same standing” and that “their place in society has not been threatened”.

    A signal. She knows reality is not like that. A signal because the categories are the PAP’s idea of what makes up the different communities, not what the communities really are. The categorisation is a construct that makes people fall within neat categories, that, most of the time, don’t fit them well. What is a Malay? Who is Malay? The rich cultural heritage of people that come together from different parts of the nusantara are lost because of this categorisation. Bawean, Bugis, Java, Johor, Aceh – so convenient all become Malay.

    This easy categorisation benefits the PAP government, not us the people. Who knows in the future Filipinos also come under the categorisation because they can easily say that Filipinos and Malays share almost the same language and physical appearance. Even now Singaporean Chinese also cannot tell the difference until they hear the accent when we talk.

    It is not ony a problem culturally. There are many legal effect on people too.

    Just because you are categorised as Malay, you have lower chance of owning a HDB flat in a neighbourhood you desire. HDB ethnic quota also a problem when you want to sell your house. You go serve NS and chances are that you will be posted to Civil Defence instead of Commando. Why in Civil Defence no ethnic quota? Why the PAP government can be fine with the over-representation of Malays in CD?

    Maybe you have not realise before but you should know now that the CMIO categorisation is a very convenient tool to discriminate against our community. To keep us economically backward, so that the majority elites can prosper.

    The ambassador talk so much about the supra-ethnic identity but if the PAP government is really serious about forging a national identity after SG50, they should do away with the race categorisation.  We will not lose our ethnic identities. Actually the opposite effect is we will explore our ethnic identities and be more in touch with it. There will be a more equal playing field. Our race will not be a factor when we decide to buy a house or when called up to serve NS. Only then will a true Singaporean identity emerge.

    Danial

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  • NUS Economics Graduate Chooses To Sell Crabs For A Living

    NUS Economics Graduate Chooses To Sell Crabs For A Living

    Meet Fu Hai everyone, who I met this morning during my market visit. Fu Hai, 29, runs a stall selling fresh crabs at the Toa Payoh Market at Lorong 4.

    His stall is simple – just a few styrofoam boxes with live crabs in them. His work day is long, starting at 4am and ending at night around 8pm. He and his parents have three such stalls.

    Fu Hai graduated with an economics degree from NUS but decided to forge his own path. He has big dreams. He knows the network of crab suppliers from Sri Lanka, Indonesia and China. He knows what his customers want – which crabs are best for their sweet meat, and others for the roe.

    He thinks he can expand this business to semi-finished products working with our polytechnics.

    Welcome to Singapore’s Future Economy. Whatever shape that comes in, we will need young people like Fu Hai to forge new paths.

    The future belongs to people like him. Let’s all wish Fu Hai every success as he chases his dreams.

     

    Source: Ng Eng Hen

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