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  • Anti-Discrimination Group Investigates Online Racial Abuse Against Singaporean Referee

    Anti-Discrimination Group Investigates Online Racial Abuse Against Singaporean Referee

    Britain’s anti-discrimination group Kick It Out said that it is investigating online racial abuse against Singaporean referee Sukhbir Singh who took charge of the International Champions Cup (ICC) match between Chelsea and Inter Milan last Saturday (Jul 29) at the Singapore Sports Hub.

    In an emailed reply on Monday (Aug 1), Kick It Out told Channel NewsAsia that it has since “been made aware by members of the public concerned by the comments directed” at the referee and that the matter is being investigated by its “reporting officer who is liaising with relevant authorities”.

    Singaporean match official Sukhbir Singh was the man in the middle for the ICC fixture, which ended in a 2-1 victory for the Italian side.

    He was criticised by some netizens for awarding Inter Milan a controversial penalty at the end of the first half, following a challenge by Cesar Azpilicueta on Inter striker Stefan Jovetic.

    In the second half, Chelsea’s Michy Batshuayi saw a goal incorrectly ruled out for offside, as confirmed by video match replays.

    Some netizens took to Twitter to criticise the 33-year-old FIFA international referee’s performance and commented on his ethnicity.

    As the incident is under investigation, Kick It Out added that it could not comment on any potential consequences or repercussions for any parties involved.

     

    Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com/

  • Cancer-Stricken Mother Loses Subsidy After Raising Funds Through Crowdfunding

    Cancer-Stricken Mother Loses Subsidy After Raising Funds Through Crowdfunding

    A single mother with cancer has been cut off from medical and social assistance subsidy schemes after raising $900,000 in donations.

    Ms Tam Chek Ming, 46, is the first publicly known case to have financial aid terminated due to being able to raise funds on her own.

    This comes at a time when individual appeals online have garnered up to six-figure sums in donations.

    While Ms Tam managed to raise funds online, social workers said people caught in financial emergencies should still turn to government aid schemes first, and warned that crowdfunding has its risks for donors and fund-raisers.

    Ms Tam learnt in 2015 that she had ovarian cancer. Despite chemotherapy, her cancer progressed from Stage 1 to 4. For the past two years, her medical bills were subsidised by Medifund, a social safety net to help poor Singaporeans pay for medical treatment – specifically those unable to pay their bills even after subsidies, insurance, Medisave and cash payments.

    Ms Tam also made crowdfunding appeals – one in April last year and another this April – saying she had to fight her cancer to stay alive for her five-year-old son.

    She went on crowdfunding pages Give.asia and Generosity and has raised $771,692 and US$80,047 (S$109,000) respectively so far.

    In May, a Medifund committee from the National University Cancer Institute, Singapore, where she was receiving treatment, examined her access to Medifund as part of a regular review and subsidies were stopped last month.

    A spokesman for the institute told The Straits Times: “The committee assessed that Ms Tam no longer needed to rely on Medifund assistance for her medical bills based on her current financial resources; and that Medifund amount can be used to help other patients with more immediate needs.”

    She used to be on Comcare, a national aid scheme for those with low income, for three months from November last year but did not return to renew her assistance in January.

    A second application in May this year was rejected “as she was assessed to have sufficient savings”, said a spokesman from the Ministry of Social and Family Development, which oversees the scheme.

    Ms Tam declined to comment. In her posts on crowdfunding pages, she had said she sold off all she could sell in her two-room flat and skipped meals so her son could eat.

    She also said the immunotherapy she needed was not covered by Medifund or other schemes. Generally, a dose is required every 21 days and costs about $6,000.

    Social service experts ST spoke to said the Government made the right move to stop her financial aid, so help can be given to others. They also said if her donations are used up and she needs more money again, she can reapply for subsidies.

     

    Source: www.tnp.sg

  • Tattooed Guy Macam Gangster Gave Up MRT Seat For Infant-Carrying Mother While Others Don’t Care

    Tattooed Guy Macam Gangster Gave Up MRT Seat For Infant-Carrying Mother While Others Don’t Care

    A lady carry her infant board a train at City Hall. People went in and occupied the empty seat. No seat left for the lady carrying her infant. The unicorn in the reserved seating dress nicely choose to ignore. Instead, the guy with the tattoo have the biggest heart. Stood up and gave his seat to the lady carrying her infant.

    For anyone who will say why take trian, Oklah next time parents with infant don’t take train ok. Smrt must put no parent with babies/kids allow. See troublesome.

    Note to self never ever judge a book by its cover.

     

    Source: Ahmad Fauzy

  • PAP Put Spotlight On Race When They Reserved This Presidential Election For Malays

    PAP Put Spotlight On Race When They Reserved This Presidential Election For Malays

    Don’t talk about their Malay-ness, discuss their capabilities instead. This is generally what many PAP supporters are saying. They remind us not to focus on the race.

    Excuse me! In the first place, who made this election about race?

    Malay Singaporeans didn’t ask for this election to be reserved for the community. We were capable of looking beyond race to vote someone capable and independent like Dr Tan Cheng Bock as President if he had been allowed to contest an open PE.

    The Malay community didn’t say we are not going to participate in any Presidential elections because no Malays were contesting.

    It was the PAP who made this election about race. So, naturally, we will discuss how Malay those aspiring Presidents are. If the person is not adequately Malay to the community, then having that candidate as our President does not make us proud and will continue to perpetuate the perception that the community is being excluded from the presidency.

    Don’t make our community the scapegoat.

     

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  • Singapore Detains First Woman For Radicalism Under ISA After She Planned To Join Islamic State

    Singapore Detains First Woman For Radicalism Under ISA After She Planned To Join Islamic State

    The 22-year-old preschool teacher had been posting pro-ISIS material online since 2014 and was also looking for a terror supporter in Syria to marry.

    SINGAPORE: Singapore has detained its first female citizen for radicalism under the Internal Security Act (ISA), said the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Monday (June 12).

    Syaikhah Izzah Zahrah Al Ansari, a 22-year-old contract infantcare assistant with the PCF (PAP Community Foundation) Sparkletots preschool programme, was detained in June this year.

    Her radicalisation started in 2013 through online propaganda related to the Islamic State terrorist group, said MHA.

    “She began to believe that ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) represented the true spirit of Islam. Her radicalisation deepened over time,” a press release read. “This was exacerbated by a wide network of foreign online contacts which she developed. They included ISIS militants and supporters, some of whom have either been killed in Syria or arrested for terrorism-related activities.”

    Since 2014, Izzah actively posted and shared pro-ISIS material online. Several of her social media platforms were removed by administrators because of such content, but she created new ones.

    MHA said Izzah was also intent on joining ISIS and was actively planning to make her way to Syria, with her young child, to do so.

    “She supported ISIS’s use of violence to establish and defend its self-declared ‘caliphate’, and aspired to live in it,” said the ministry. “To this end, she said that since 2015, she was looking for ‘a Salafi or an ISIS supporter’ to marry and settle down with him and her child in Syria.”

    “She said she would support her husband if he fought for ISIS in Syria as she believed she would reap ‘heavenly rewards’ if he died in battle. With her ‘elevated status’ as a ‘martyr’s widow’, she felt she could (then) easily marry another ISIS fighter in Syria.”

    Izzah also said she was prepared to undergo military training and engage in armed combat to defend ISIS if called upon by the terrorist group to do so, MHA added.

    Her sister and parents – who are both freelance Quranic teachers – came to know of her radical postings in 2015 and her intention to join ISIS in Syria. They did not alert the authorities and tried on their own to dissuade her, but were unsuccessful.

    Izzah continued down the path of radicalism, said MHA, and in April this year, “boasted” to a contact that the Singapore authorities had not detected her.

    In its press release, the MHA reiterated that importance of family members and friends to let the authorities know of anyone they suspect is being radicalised or planning terror attacks.

     

    Source: http://www.channelnewsasia.com