Grassroots leader hanged himself after quarrel with committee members
December 31st, 2009 | 
Author: Written by Our Correspondent
A grassroots leader of Holland-Bukit Timah GRC, BBM Mr Loh Meng Hai, Louis hanged himself after a quarrel with fellow committee members of Bukit Timah Beauty World Merchant Association.
During its AGM held on Monday, Mr Loh, who was the Chairman of the association, was accused of “mismanaging” the association’s finances.
Both sides broke into an intense quarrel which lasted till midnight. Mr Loh did not sleep after he returned home. His body was found hanging lifelessly in the storeroom in the morning.
Mr Loh is the treasurer of Bukit Timah CCMC. A wreath from Mrs Yu-Foo Yee Shoon, Minister of State, Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and MP for Holland-Bukit Timah GRC was noticed at his wake.
Mr Loh has been an active grassroots leader for the last 40 years. He was awarded PBM in 2002 and BBM in 2007.
News source: Lianhe Wanbao
Posted in Editorial
Did Grim Reaper find the wrong person due to some honest mistake ?
wow…the wheels are indeed turning…
I hope to see a full report from the MSM on this one…much like how they report “slipperman” personal family tragedy it happened.
Another sad case…
Must be something he knows that …
To admin,
you got the name wrong, it should be
NDA2007
Mr Loh Meng Hai, PBM 45 Vice-Chairman, Bukit Timah CCC
Loh Meng Hai(罗明海) Beauty World Center
NATIONAL DAY AWARDS 2002
Mr Loh Meng Hai Treasurer. Bukit Timah CCC.
Anyway, i stumble onto a site which shows parents are eager to join grassroots to get their children in favourite schools
http://www.kiasuparents.com/kiasu/forum/viewtopic.php?p=37552
looks like another teh cheng wan
wow— another Teh Chng Wan (ex-Ministe for National Development Board)PAP—- Pass Away Peacefully.
Dear PAP supporter—– U’re all brushing the Tiger teeth,
At the end U end up eaten up by the tiger.
Eunos funeral blanket company is again in business.
Will Mr. Sear takes a leaf from this story?
Repent while you can. Some Chinese idiom goes like this, ” Paper cannot be wrap around fire”.
Hanged himself or murdered then placed onto a rope to look as if it’s suicide??
A person is dead, and we do not know the real cause. Yet, posters here are making cold blooded comments here!
How shameless!
Agree with patzhou!
Have a heart, guys! There’s really no need to make such crude comments and unnecessary speculations…
My condolences to the family!
why grassroot leader hanged himself?
“Accused of “mismanaging” the association’s finances” is not mean hor the Sentenced for it. not yet sentenced or judged what.
why so like dat wan?
regrads
Smiley Seah
Pls order funeral blanket from Sear & Fong Co. But cannot contact them. Lousy SERVICE!
>>How shameless!
Ya lor…such nasty comments will definitely disappoint Rear-Admiral (NS) Lui, who once said it was ‘quite apparent the Internet is not an effective self-regulated regime as some may have touted it to be’
To CCC, RC members,
Don’t waste your time serving the PAP. You may get some medals, that’s all.
You do the hard work, the MP and minister gets the praise and reward. Did your MP or minster share with their allowance or salary?
Poor Mr. Loh gets the blame and hung himself.
That’s what you get helping the PAP
Somebody in 3in1 suggested he could be Loh Meng See’s brother?
//patzhou on Fri, 1st Jan 2010 12:23 am
A person is dead, and we do not know the real cause. Yet, posters here are making cold blooded comments here!
How shameless!//
When JBJ passed away last year lhl wrote a condolence to the family in which he criticized him for what he had done in life. Wasn’t that cold-blooded too?
How shameful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ah Cow, so you are no Diff from PAP?
we do not know the real cause yet, so the possibility, even tot remote, that he hang himself to prove his innocent remains. Which make him someone we should respect.
Just because he ‘also happen to be a grassroot leader’ which has nothing to do with the beauty world account is publish as the headline by TR, ppl start jumping to the gun to link this to that…
sad this case truly is.
the GREED for money is a source of evils.
i hope our society doesn’t turn into a ‘SIN-CITY ‘when the casinos start rolling.
to the gahmen,with so many workers and executives out of jobs,i say,have a heart and consider to create meaningful jobs for the citizens as in desperate times,desperate families may take desperate actions like sexploitation and drug trafficking.
another serious consideration,keep cost of living affordable,it’s not the time to have “budget surpluses”.
a good gahmen is not merely measured by its ability to accumulate huge surpluses in whatever manner but one that ensures the decent all-rounded well-being of its citizens.
Dear Sear Hock Rong and Fong Yoong Keong,
Be afraid, be very very afraid…
janetnt, when are you going to prove your accusation tha Alex Tan assaulted and insulted the modesty of his ex-CO’s wife? Before you go around condemning others, take a good hard look in the mirror and ponder your own baseless, defamatory accusations.
“His body was found hanging lifelessly in the storeroom in the morning”
very interesting… Why the Storeroom? did he really Hang himself?
or
Murder by defamatory accusations? But once he is dead, who will handle his Account? will the true be out?
I would say it is wrong to make disparaging remarks about the dead person.
But I would say it is even more wrong for some people to only attack the weak “alternative” views here.
These few people who only attack posters here, did you also attack pap when they make disparaging remarks about the honourable JBJ?
there should be a full scale investigations. u never know what committee members are capable of.
美世界中心商联会曾在14年前发生“选举舞弊风波”，罗明海当时遭人以黑函人身攻击。
1995年，《晚报》独家报道，美世界中心商联会理事会选举发生风波，42名会员向国会议员请愿，要求重选，理由是投票当天，投票箱一度“失踪”半小时。
过后，有人发匿名信给166名会员和理事，对主张重选的罗明海和洪才明做出人身攻击，指他们假公济私，信中还大骂他们是一等小人。
当时，罗明海和洪才明请律师代表他们，把匿名信带到警局报案。
当时的国会议员王家园博士还写了一封公开信，劝请商联会以和为贵
amy, if you so believe in people having their rights to express their “alternative” views, then why are you picking at those who had expressed reservations and indignation at disparaging remarks made against Loh Meng Hai? Are not these “alternative” views as well?
Isn’t your views a highly hypocritical and double-standard one as well, and one that is attacking others “alternative” views? Do you really practice what you preach and believe in, or you are simply making selective attacks at those you personally are “buay-song” with?
Later few will followed up to be Hange ! Multi million loss in Mini Bond. Master said look for some scape goat.
//janetnt on Fri, 1st Jan 2010 4:25 am
Ah Cow, so you are no Diff from PAP?//
Dear Jane, in what way am I no Diff from pap?
Kindly elaborate.
Whether or not we know the cause, or whether he hanged himself, there is no need to criticize the dead. Unless they are Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, The Immortal One, etc.
To: Alternative Views on Fri, 1st Jan 2010 1:05 pm
Did you read that I started my posting with the sentence “I would say it is wrong to make disparaging remarks about the dead person”.
Did you realise that this sentence is aimed at the people who made disparaging remarks about Loh Meng Hai.
You are barking up the wrong tree.