Archive for June, 2010
A complacent government or an absolute clueless one?

A complacent government or an absolute clueless one?

Feedback: In engineering terms, it refers to data collected at all stages of a work process that is used to ensure that the process is running according to specifications so as to achieve a desired outcome. If any of the data collected should fall outside the specified parameters then corrective action to ensure the defective... 

Cabby’s plea rejected as he insists he did not intend to “alarm” PAP MP Lee Yi Shyan

Cabby’s plea rejected as he insists he did not intend to “alarm” PAP MP Lee Yi Shyan

Relief cabby Mr Teo Kian Seng who was charged in court for allegedly “threatening” his PAP MP Lee Yi Shyan has his plea rejected by the court because he continues to insist that he did not intend to cause any alarm to Lee. According to Channel News Asia, District Judge Low Wee Ping said that Mr Teo will have... 

Singapore Malays slammed Dr Mahathir on ST Forum

Singapore Malays slammed Dr Mahathir on ST Forum

Singapore Malays have united and slammed Dr Mahathir in unison for his remarks made to a gathering of right-wing Malay groups that they are “marginalized”. He claimed that “even though Malay Singaporeans enjoy the benefits of a more developed country, they have to ‘terbongkok-bongkok’ (kowtow)... 

New Creation Church pastor “apologizes” to Taoist Federation Chairman

New Creation Church pastor “apologizes” to Taoist Federation Chairman

Following ISD investigations into a sermon made by New Creation church pastor Mark Ng in 2008 in which he allegedly mocked Taoist beliefs, the embattled pastor made a personal trip to the Taoist Federation to “apologize” to its Chairman Tan Thiam Lye. The two men spoke in private for about an hour and ended... 

Ho Yeow Sun called up for questioning by police

Ho Yeow Sun called up for questioning by police

Pop singer Ho Yeow Sun has been called up for questioning by police from the Commercial Affairs Department, the Straits Times reports today. On May 31, 17 members from the City Harvest Church was hauled up for investigations by the police for alleged misuse of church funds including Ms Ho’s husband Senior Pastor Kong... 

Dr M claims Malays under siege

Dr M claims Malays under siege

The Malaysian Insider, 17 June 2010 Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad today continued his push for a siege mentality among the Malays by pointing out that the community’s political leaders were now under the thumb of “the others” and need to be united again for the sake of its future. Writing in his blog today, the former prime... 

Low to MND: Disclose additional funding received by PAP TCs

Low to MND: Disclose additional funding received by PAP TCs

I refer to Senior Minister of State Grace Fu’s response to my comment that opposition Town Councils which had never received either IUP, MUP or CIPC funding to improve and rejuvenate the estate would be in a disadvantaged position compared to PAP TCs. She was quoted in today’s press report to have said that “criteria... 

Who should accept responsibility for the security lapse at SMRT Depot?

Who should accept responsibility for the security lapse at SMRT Depot?

OPINION The American author Napolean Hill once wrote: “Big pay and little responsibility are circumstances seldom found together.” He will be flabbergasted to know that they are pretty common circumstances in Singapore where political leaders and top honchos of public-listed companies take home astronomical... 

Counsel hold out hope for youth on death row

Counsel hold out hope for youth on death row

A Malaysian youth is languishing in death row awaiting hanging after Singapore’s judiciary found him guilty of possessing heroin weighing 47 grams, lawyers fighting to save him tell IPS. Lawyers, human rights activists and chapters of leading human rights advocate Amnesty International in both countries are working to... 

Orchard Road will NEVER flood, says TNP in 1999

Orchard Road will NEVER flood, says TNP in 1999

Well, almost never. For a flood to hit anywhere in Singapore, it takes a combination of high tides and about 100mm of rainfall within an hour. And Orchard Road is protected by its mighty rain drain — the Stamford Canal. Thanks to it, shoppers haven’t had to slosh through waist-deep waters since 1960s. But what makes... 

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