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  • Commentary: Boycott Geylang Bazaar? Rising Rental And Non-Halal Food Are The Critical Reasons

    Commentary: Boycott Geylang Bazaar? Rising Rental And Non-Halal Food Are The Critical Reasons

    Bazaar Ramadan…

    Part1
    Sewa gerai makan= $17000
    Sewa gerai jual pakaian= $7000
    Tahun demi tahun, sewa gerai semakin tinggi. Tauke gerai buat bidding, kes tamak nak mampos. Tahun depan confirm naik lagi. Peniaga melayu semakin berkurangan kerana tak mampu bayar sewa yg tinggi. Dulu sewanya tak setinggi macam ni, dulu ramai peniaga melayu tapi kurang pembeli. Masa tu ramai yg cuma lalu lalang see see look look. Peniaga musiman jadi serik nak meniaga. Sekarang peniaga melayu semakin berkurangan, kita pula complain. Kesian pada peniaga melayu, tak berniaga kerana sewa yg mahal. Perit orang kita tak rasa. Adat berniaga ada pasang surut. Untuk elak dari benda ni berlaku, kalau orang Melayu bersatu hati, kita boikot bazaar geylang kasi tauke rugi. Kalau takde penyewa gerai, tauke gigit jari. Biar dia bayar hutang bank sendiri. Kita belanja aje kat Joo Chiat dan pasar Geylang. Kasi untung peniaga tetap yg dah bertapak bertahun2 kat situ. Takde bazaar takpe, Geylang tak ‘berseri’, tak best pun takpe. Yg penting kita ajar sama itu tauke. Abih macam mana peniaga melayu nak berniaga? Online kan ada. Peniaga gerai makanan boleh buat kat bawah blok, yg tu betul Bazaar Ramadan. 100% makanan halal.

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    Sambungan bazaar Geylang…
    Part 2
    Semalam dah draft tapi hold dulu. Nak tembak kena save peluru.

    Menang bidding= $1.79m
    Paling murah 1 gerai= $7k
    900 gerai= $7k x 900= $6.3m
    Tauke untung= $6.3-1.79= $4.51m
    Peniaga untung atau tak, tauke gerai tetap untung $4.51m, untung peniaga bergantung pada sales. Kalau rugi, peniaga tetap kena bayar sewa harga $7k dan lebih. So orang peniaga Melayu kena pandai, boikot besar besaran, kalau tauke menang bidding, tapi takde penyewa, dia tetap kena bayar duit bidding $1.79m. Kalau bazaar Geylang jual babi pun, biarkan aje sb menteri2 kita tak halang. Its ok sb itu bukan tempat Melayu/Islam lagi. Kalau dia hutang bank, itu pandai2 dia settle dgn bank. Kita jangan jadi barua pada tauke macam ni.

    Atok Bekam
    Atok Khairuddin

     

    Source: Ahmad Khairuddin

    Photo credit: Betel Box Backpackers Hostel & Tours

  • Geylang Ramadan Bazaar Focused On Muslim Owners And Their Products/Services In The 80s And 90s

    Geylang Ramadan Bazaar Focused On Muslim Owners And Their Products/Services In The 80s And 90s

    We are seeing too many non-Muslim Owned stalls in Geylang, the heart of the Malay (I shall not delete this, but I stand corrected as it shld be generally just Muslim) Muslim community “get-together” place for Ramadan and Eid celebrations.

    It has been and always shld be THE trend since the 80s, 90s and crossing well into the millennium, that Geylang Ramadan bazaar shld be focused on Muslim owners and their products/services.

    I’m not going into the race/religion issue, but it is becoming more “non Malay/Muslim” bec the rentals are gg thru the roof.

    A lot of ppl, me included, are wondering, is it a ploy to one day push out all 100% Muslim Owned stalls out of Ramadan Geylang bazaar. It is super gd biz during Ramadan, as we Muslims descend and spend a lot during this period, so the sharp biz ppl are zooming in to Geylang.

    Why is the tender system allowed to go higher and higher every year? Causing the winning tender owners to impose higher and higher rentals, making it beyond reach of most Malay/Muslim vendors.

    Whatever it is, do not remove the need for Halal certification, if the stall is not 100% Muslim Owned. And now with a lot of “Malay” looking workers manning the stalls, it’s difficult to ascertain.

     

    Source: Eusniati Eusoff

  • Single Mother-Caregiver Of Told To leave Flat Because Of $99 Unpaid Rents

    Single Mother-Caregiver Of Told To leave Flat Because Of $99 Unpaid Rents

    Jobless single mum with sick dad who is suffering from a heart attack forced to leave rental flat by 30th April after owing HDB 3 months of rent amounting to $99!

    Source: Gilbert Goh

  • HDB Investigating Makeshift ‘Childcare Centre’ In Toa Payoh Flat

    HDB Investigating Makeshift ‘Childcare Centre’ In Toa Payoh Flat

    A night-time “childcare centre” has been operating at a Housing Board flat in Toa Payoh, caring for up to 10 children.

    Residents at the block told Shin Min Daily News that parents take their kids to the flat every day after 6pm.

    The children are of primary school age, with some five years old, Shin Min reported on Saturday (March 11). Some are reportedly driven there by their parents, while others are dropped off by the school bus.

    “The children usually stay there for some hours. Some even spend the night there, and the parents pick them up the next day,” said the resident whose name was not given.

    Shin Min visited the block and a resident who declined to be named said that the owner of the flat had started renting it out one or two years ago.

    “After the tenant moved in, occasionally I’ll see a woman taking her kids there.”

    Another resident who declined to be named told Shin Min that he hears the sound of children running in the unit every night.

    He said he previously asked the tenant of the unit about the situation. The tenant reportedly said he let them run to expend their energy.

    Other residents said the family was friendly and the children polite.

    Shin Min observed that the two shoe racks outside the flat were stacked with shoes and slippers, many of them kid-sized.

    When asked by Shin Min, a male tenant at the flat in question denied that he was running a “childcare centre”.

    He explained: “I’m just helping my friends look after their kids, there are more than 10 of them. I receive some money to help out with family expenses.”

    The man, who is in his 50s, said that the parents who take their kids there are from China. These parents want to let their children have an environment where they can learn English, and he would speak the language to them.

    The man added that he resorted to this as he had been unemployed for six years.

    He was previously an art teacher in Hong Kong and Macau, where he lived for more than 10 years.

    When he returned to Singapore, he could not find a job.

    “I have a son who has attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) at home, so I give tuition at home, and help my friends look after their kids, to pay the bills.”

    He said he was not robbing anyone, and that it was not easy to get a job at his age.

    Shin Min checked with the landlord, who said she was unaware of the activities going on and would immediately find out more from the housing agent.

    A spokesman for the HDB told The Straits Times yesterday (March 11) that flats are for residential use.

    “While residents may use their flats to carry out home-based small scale informal businesses under the Home Based Small Scale Business Scheme, childcare centres are not allowed,” said the spokesman.

    The spokesman said HDB had not previously received feedback about childcare services being provided in the flat in question.

    “We are investigating the case with the relevant authorities,” said HDB.

     

    Source: ST

  • A Chinese-Singaporean Husband’s Dilemma – ‘Sorry Your Wife Is Indian. Landlord Won’t Rent To You’.

    A Chinese-Singaporean Husband’s Dilemma – ‘Sorry Your Wife Is Indian. Landlord Won’t Rent To You’.

    Darius Cheung, founder of Singapore-based property listing site 99.co, is married to Indian-Singaporean wife Roshni Mahtani, who’s also an entrepreneur (she started parenting portaltheAsianparent).

    Late last year, they began searching for a property to rent, thinking that an oversupply of apartments would make it easy. They were wrong.

    You see, as a Chinese Singaporean man, Darius had been sheltered from the everyday racism felt by minorities. He was about to get an education.

    “I began to notice something very odd as we went for these viewings, something I never encountered before in the dozen years that I’ve been renting,” he writes on the company blog.

    “On several occasions, the agents seemed eager to end the viewings quickly, sometimes without even discussing the offer. I would text them afterwards to negotiate on the price, but one of the responses we got was a shocking ‘Sorry your wife is Indian, landlord won’t rent to you. Next time please indicate earlier, so we both don’t waste time.’”

    He did precisely that. True enough, 20 percent of their enquiries were rejected right away because Roshni was mentioned in the text message.

    “In one case, after the typical vague response of ‘profile doesn’t match,’ I pushed harder to ask ‘Is it because my wife is Indian?’, and the response was a dead-pan ‘yes, thanks for your understanding.’”

    They ended up paying 15 percent more than what they should have because of their difficulty finding a place.

    The event led to some soul-searching. They wanted to include both parents’ surnames in their daughter’s name. They thought about dropping the Indian surname to protect her, but decided against it.

    So Darius sought to do something about racial discrimination in the property market. He writes:

    If you google ‘No Indian No PRC’, you will find actual rental listings in Singapore in the top results. The problem is so prevalent that even BBC had extensive coverage on it some time ago.

    Enquiries about rental properties often come with a series of profiling questions that includes ‘What race are you?’, ‘Where are you from?’, or outright rejection by stating ‘Profile doesn’t match.’ The top two groups of people who receive discriminatory responses are Indians and PRCs (referring to those from the People’s Republic of China).

    Landlords often cite reasons like “lack of cleanliness”, “likelihood of damaging the apartment,” and even “I don’t like them.”

    99.co is now tackling this by introducing an “all-races-welcome” indicator on its website. What this means is that agents and landlords can positively indicate that their properties can be rented by anyone regardless of ethnicity. Such listings will get prominent placing on the website.

    “The idea is to give renters peace of mind during their home search journey – reducing instances of rude comments and unpleasant experiences while enquiring about listings.”

     

    Source: www.techinasia.com