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  • Calon SDA, Abu Mohamed, Saran Gunakan Wang Simpanan CPF Untuk Tunaikan Haji

    Calon SDA, Abu Mohamed, Saran Gunakan Wang Simpanan CPF Untuk Tunaikan Haji

    Para calon Perikatan Demokratik Singapura (SDA) bagi GRC Pasir Ris-Punggol mengadakan rapat pilihan raya pertamanya malam tadi (4 September).

    Dalam ucapannya, calon baru, Encik Abu Mohamed antara lain, mengusulkan agar sebahagian daripada simpanan akaun khas CPF diketepikan untuk keperluan menunaikan Haji.

    “Kita boleh membentuk sistem perkiraan yang tidak sekali rumit bagi memberi kelonggaran bagi mengeluarkan simpanan tersebut kepada pekerja selama 30 atau 40 tahun.

    Ia adalah wajar bagi kementerian itu melihat pada sudut memberi pilihan kepada pekerja mengeluarkan sebahagian daripada caruman CPF untuk melaksanakan rukun Islam kelima tanpa beban sebelum bersara,” ujar Encik Abu.

    Source: http://berita.mediacorp.sg

  • Presiden PKMS, Abu Mohamed, Tanding Bawah Naungan SDA Kali Ini

    Presiden PKMS, Abu Mohamed, Tanding Bawah Naungan SDA Kali Ini

    PARTI Perikatan Demokratik Singapura (SDA) berikrar memperjuang hak rakyat Singapura jika calon-calonnya dipilih ke Parlimen.

    Calon SDA di GRC Pasir Ris-Punggol, Encik Harminder Pal Singh, berkata demikian ketika berucap kepada penyokong di pusat penamaan calon di Sekolah Rendah Fengshan semalam.

    Menurut beliau, sedang Singapura menyambut ulang tahun ke-50 tahun ini, negara tetap berdepan dengan banyak masalah.

    “Secara umumnya, Singapura berdepan dengan banyak masalah dalam bidang penjagaan kesihatan, pekerjaan dan Kertas Putih berkaitan 6.9 juta penduduk.

    “Kami akan memperjuang hak setiap rakyat Singapura, terutama penduduk GRC Pasir Ris-Punggol,” kata Encik Singh.

    Calon Melayu SDA, yang merupakan muka baru di GRC itu, Encik Abu Mohamed, pula berkata calon SDA terdiri daripada golongan rakyat biasa, justeru memahami keprihatinan mereka.

    “Kami faham keluhan yang sudah lama terpendam. Berikan kami mandat bagi menyuarakan semua keluhan anda,” gesa beliau.

    Encik Abu merupakan Presiden Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Singapura (PKMS).

    Dalam pilihan raya kali ini, PKMS akan ‘bergerak’ di bawah naungan SDA.

    Pasukan SDA di GRC Pasir Ris-Punggol diketuai Encik Desmond Lim.

    Encik Lim, Encik Singh and seorang lagi calon, Encik Arthero Lim, bertanding di GRC sama pada pilihan raya umum 2011.

    Dua lagi muka baru SDA yang bertanding di GRC itu ialah Encik Ong Teik Seng dan Encik Wong Way Weng.

    Ini kali ketiga SDA bertanding di GRC Pasir Ris-Punggol.

     

    Source: http://beritaharian.sg

  • PKMS President, Abu Mohamed, Among Three New Faces To Contest Pasir-Ris Punggol GRC Under The SDA Banner

    PKMS President, Abu Mohamed, Among Three New Faces To Contest Pasir-Ris Punggol GRC Under The SDA Banner

    The Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) on Monday (Aug 31) unveiled its slate of potential candidates contesting the six-member Pasir Ris-Punggol Group Representation Constituency, and three of them are new faces.

    Mr Ong Teik Seng, 44, is contesting for the first time.

    The sales director said he wants to highlight matters concerning the well-being of senior citizens and the young. Criticising the rise in age limits for Singaporeans to withdraw their Central Provident Fund (CPF) savings, Mr Ong said that Singapore is a country that has “sailed very far into the deep oceans”.

    “There are many workers on board the ship, especially the pioneer generation. They are working for survival,” he said, adding that he hopes for reforms to the CPF scheme.

    Mr Ong also said he hopes to give children more opportunities to get a higher education, so they can face the future challenges of a foreign talent influx.

    Mr Sunny Wong Way Weng, 53, is another new face.

    The quality assurance manager has been a resident of Pasir Ris for about 21 years. He said he was motivated to join politics as he wants to speak up on issues such as traffic congestion and the pressure Singaporeans face.

    “I am proud to have celebrated SG50 but there is room to speak up and go forward,” he said.

    Mr Abu Mohamed, 64, is the third new candidate.

    Speaking in Malay, the President of the Singapore Malay National Organisation (PKMS) said he wants to help the Malay-Muslim community progress in areas such as education, jobs and housing.

    Mr Abu Mohamed, a co-director in an oil field services company, also hopes to bring up issues advocating women wearing the hijab in frontline work, as well as policies protecting Malays from being barred from job positions that specify Mandarin-speaking candidates.

    Mr Desmond Lim, 47, SDA’s secretary-general, previously contested in Punggol East SMC in 2011 and 2013.

    The engineer in the telecommunications industry lost his election deposit after garnering just 0.57 per cent of the votes in the Punggol East SMC by-election in 2013. However, he said he is unfazed by the episode.

    “How can a country depend on you if you give up just after losing once?” he said.

    “The Parliament lacks a common man’s voice,” added Mr Lim in Mandarin. “The common man needs to have a place in Parliament, and I have decided to continue to champion the rights of the common man.”

    Mr Arthero Lim, 60, is taking part in his fourth election.

    The filmmaker rejoined the SDA slate after contesting under the Reform Party banner in Ang Mo Kio GRC in the previous General Election in 2011. He has also contested as a Singapore Democratic Party candidate.

    “I’m a fighter for social justice. It’s not just criticising the ruling party – a lack of social justice is making Singapore dysfunctional,” he said.

    Mr Harminder Pal Singh, 43, was one of the candidates for Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC in 2011.

    The CEO of coaching company Helping People Succeed said he hopes to see more being done for a hiring policy that benefits Singaporeans. “These are cosmetic changes we see by the Government. When we are elected as MPs, we want to push for these policies in the right fashion. We want more in-depth implementation to benefit more Singaporeans,” he explained, referring to the current policies.

    Another issue he hopes to address in Parliament is the “lack of emphasis being given to the welfare of the people in Singapore”, citing the “inability to retire at 55 and be able to withdraw CPF funds”.

    Mr Singh added that the party was “confident” it was connecting with voters and that it would strive to ensure that the Pasir Ris-Punggol town council would be “one of the best ones” if SDA was elected into Parliament. To ensure it is ready to run the constituency, SDA revealed that it has created a shadow town council for the GRC. Members have also been going for training.

    “Should we win the election, we will go in there running. Our shadow town council is ready to take over the town council (in Pasir Ris-Punggol),” said Mr Singh.

    The party said it will also look into asking for more childcare centres and a regional hospital. When asked where the party would get the money from to push its township plan, Mr Desmond Lim said he hopes the party will get to push this plan in Parliament for approval, if elected.

     

    Source: www.channelnewsasia.com

  • SDA Member, William Lim, Resigned From Party For ‘Personal Reasons’

    SDA Member, William Lim, Resigned From Party For ‘Personal Reasons’

    A member of the Singapore Democratic Alliance (SDA) who helped set up an alternative association for cabbies touted by the party has resigned.

    In a statement to the media, Mr William Lim said he resigned yesterday (Aug 30) due to “personal reasons”.

    A full-time taxi driver, he told TODAY he was leaving the party to concentrate on his work and other business commitments, and currently does not have plans to join any other political party. He had been a member at SDA for over a year.

    He also took pains to say that the new Singapore Cabbies Association (SCA), which was announced less than two weeks ago by him and SDA chairman Desmond Lim, was “never associated with the SDA in any way”, other than the fact he is the SCA’s founding president and until now, an SDA member. The SCA, which has 200 members, aims to be an alternative to the National Taxi Association in championing cabbie welfare.

    Mr William Lim’s announcement comes two days before Nomination Day, but SDA chairman Desmond Lim said that while Mr William Lim was a member of the party, he was not a potential candidate for the upcoming General Election.

    “(He is leaving for) personal reasons, our hearts are heavy, but we have to respect (his decision),” said Mr Desmond Lim.

    Mr Desmond Lim also said the SCA is still subject to approval by the Registry of Societies. “We had this idea, because we know taxi drivers have certain issues that need us to address. We are very concerned. Since (Mr William Lim) is a taxi driver, we helped him to form this (association), and he was a member of SDA, so it was affiliated to the SDA.”

    Mr Desmond Lim added that he would prefer to wait to see if the SCA gets its approval, before commenting on whether the association will continue to be affiliated to the party.

    However, Mr William Lim said the SCA will become a “non-partisan association”. “I am the only one who is handling it. Actually I have been planning to set up the SCA since last year,” he said.

     

    Source: www.todayonline.com

  • SDA’s Desmond Lim: Don’t Judge Me By My Language

    SDA’s Desmond Lim: Don’t Judge Me By My Language

    He was ridiculed by netizens for his bad diction after an edited version of an old campaign video of his went viral on Facebook last week.

    But Singapore Democratic Alliance’s Desmond Lim Bak Chuan, 47, said his command of the English language should not be used to judge his abilities to serve the residents.

    Responding to the edited video, which used subtitles to make fun of Mr Lim’s diction, he told The New Paper: “Whoever did that, I don’t know what is his or her intention, but why go personal? You want to fault me, fault me on policy issues.

    “I have been in politics for 23 years. I have spent my life serving people. No matter how bad my command of the language is, I don’t deserve such a treatment.”

    Mr Lim was at the party’s walkabout at Punggol Plaza yesterday, where party members gave out brochures to residents.

    SDA is contesting the six-member Pasir Ris-Punggol GRC in the upcoming general elections.

    The 55-second clip mocking Mr Lim was edited from a 2013 video titled “Why Vote For Desmond Lim?: SDA Punggol East By-Elections Online Rally”.

    WATCH: Desmond Lim talks about ‘that’ video

     

     

    Mr Lim, who is married and has a three-year-old son, said he was not hurt by the clip.

    “I’m not bothered and concerned about what people think about me. I’m bothered about how I can help others,” he said.

    “That’s the past. We cannot be run down by our past. If we are held on by our past, we cannot progress.”

    He added that there are those who like to judge people despite not having met them personally.

    “People can say anything. You can’t control them. There will be people who like me, there are those who don’t.”

    Mr Lim said he has had problems speaking since a very young age.

    He did not attend pre-school and started speaking only at age seven, when he could not even spell his own name or read from A to Z.

    LATE DEVELOPER

    “People thought it was a late development where you can talk when you grow older,” said Mr Lim, who is a principal engineer with a telco.

    He said that his speaking disability was never diagnosed as his parents had been too poor to take him 
to a doctor.

    He overcame his challenges and went on to obtain a Masters in Engineering Management, despite taking five years instead of the usual three years for part-time study.

    To help him understand the lecturers, he would draw pictures and write his notes in Chinese.

    In response to the viral video, 
a supporter has edited a 2011 YouTube video titled “Unlimited Belief” to explain why Mr Lim does not speak eloquently.

    A friend of Mr Lim even likened him to a 2004 American Idol contestant, Mr William Hung, who became famous despite being mocked for his off-key audition performance of Ricky Martin’s hit song “She Bangs” in the reality talent search programme.

    In response, Mr Lim said: “I always believe I am who I am. You want to say I am Singapore’s William Hung, I’m okay.”

    You want to say I am Singapore’s William Hung, I’m okay.

    – Singapore Democratic Alliance’s Desmond Lim Bak Chuan on being compared to the American Idol contestant who was mocked for his off-key singing

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg