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14 Chinese nationals working as singers in a pub along Bukit Timah Road have been arrested after they allegedly attacked a man on or about 3am yesterday (Sept 1) morning. Photo: Shin Min Daily The 31-year-old victim is a Singaporean Mr Joe Wong who is the co-owner of another branch of the lounge (Melody Valley 2). He had gone into the management offices of Melody Valley 1 Music Lounge at Balmoral Plaza with two of his companions to discuss business matters with the female bosses of the lounge. One of the female bosses emerged from the office later, claiming Mr Wong had hit her. When the Chinese nationals, all in their 20s, heard her claim, they lunged onto the man hitting him with bare hands and barstool, calling him a "pig" in the process. The male singers were subsequently arrested for rioting, while Mr Wong was taken to Tan Tock Seng hospital where he received outpatient treatment for a cut to his head and bruises to his back. According to witnesses at the scene, the male singers arrested had said: "no matter what happened, the lady boss would settle the problem through ‘connections’." "China singers launch attack on Singapore man. They beat him up and called him a pig. About 20 people were punching, stomping on the victim," one of them wrote in a submission to STOMP. In China, such conflicts are easily resolved through "guan xi" or connections without involving the police. With Singapore continuously being flooded by Chinese workers and immigrants from mainland China, the law here may have to be tweaked pretty soon to cater to their "needs". After all, as PAP strongman Lee Kuan Yew had said, it is a "good thing" that Singapore has welcomed so many Chinese immigrants (from China) as they are more "hard-driving" and "hard-striving" than locals.   News Source: Shin Min Daily & readers contributions   Please join our Facebook page here and invite your friends to do so to create awareness of the current affairs affecting Singaporeans. Please use our online web form to contact us  Read More →

A seemingly straight-forward email interview with YOG critic Mr Abdul Malik somehow got "morphed" along the way by the Straits Times to become subtle propaganda for the PAP's "approved" opposition party - the Workers' Party. Mr Abdul Malik made the international headlines when he was arrested by the Singapore police for "inciting violence and public disorder" with a comment he posted on Facebook criticizing Dr Vivian Balakrishnan over his handling of the YOG. Below is a snapshot of the original comment posted by Mr Malik who got him into trouble with the police: He was arrested at his workplace by three plain-clothes police officers from Bedok Police Division whose Commander is DAC Teo Chun Ching and Head Investigator is DSP Goh Tat Boon. The controversial case made the international headlines, sparking a huge outcry among Singaporeans who were appalled at the inability of the police to differentiate between a metaphor and a genuine threat. Jeremy Au Yong from Straits Times had conducted a lengthy email interview with Mr Abdul Malik, but only a small portion of it was published in his article "Anti-YOG man may stand in GE" today with the rest of it being devoted to promoting the Workers' Party. For some strange reasons, Mr Au Yong chose to seek the views of WP Youth Wing President Koh Choon Yong on the use of Facebook for political outreach which is completely irrelevant to the subject in discussion. Even if it is warranted, Mr Au Yong should have contacted the Young Democrats since Mr Abdul Malik has submitted an application to join them. He also gave free publicity to a hitherto unknown "commentary" website founded by three WP Youth members which again is quite off the tangent. Netizens should be extremely wary of any opposition parties or socio-political blogs which are endorsed by the Straits Times either covertly or overtly as it will not give them positive coverage without a hidden agenda. The WP has been promoted by the mainstream media as a "credible opposition" because its MPs and members almost never confront the PAP on important national issues which would have exposed its inadequacies, and double up to serve its political interest by masquerading Singapore as a "democracy" to the world instead, thereby sparing the PAP regime the agony of being classified as a one-party totalitarian state along the likes of North Korea, China and Burma. WP Organizing Secretary and CEC member Yaw Shin Leong is a fervent PAP supporter who voted for PAP MP Teo Ho Pin in the 2006 election. Its two MPs in Parliament are as good as "sitting ducks" as they are reluctant to take the PAP to task for its actions. When asked by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Parliament two years ago if Home Affairs Minister Wong Kan Seng should resign over the escape of Mas Selamat, WP Secretary-General and MP Mr Low Thia Kiang was stunned into silence and dared not even mutter a single word. With the elections around the corner, the PAP and its propaganda mouthpiece are using the same old "constructive opposition" hogwash to define "acceptable" ways of "opposing" (them) and to split and weaken the opposition camp again. Remember - the critic exists to criticize and the opposition exists to oppose. The entity "constructive opposition" is a figment of the PAP's imagination and any political parties which profess itself as such is no more but its proxy like the many so-called "democratic" parties under the patronage of China's Communist Party and Russia's United Russia Party. * A full and unedited transcript of Mr Malik's email interview with Mr Au Yong from Straits Times is available on our site at: https://www.tremeritus.net/2010/09/02/abdul-maliks-email-interview-with-straits-times/   Related articles: >> Transcript of Abdul Malik's interview with Straits Times >> Abdul Malik apologizes to Vivian Balakrishnan >> Dissenting is our right >> Abdul Malik: My thoughts on the YOG games >> Dr Vivian: I don’t care about arrest of YOG critic >> Arrest of YOG critic to squash dissent failed miserably >> Character assassination by Straits Times against YOG critic >> Netizens voice support for arrested YOG critic Abdul Malik >> Outcry among Singaporeans at arrest of YOG critic >> Singapore police put YOG on world map >> Did Dr Vivian lodge police report against YOG critic? >> YOG critic arrested by Singapore police >> Participant of “I hate YOG” Facebook arrested by police Please join our Facebook page here and invite your friends to do so to create awareness of the current affairs affecting Singaporeans. Please use our online web form to contact us       Please join our Facebook page here and invite your friends to do so to create awareness of the current affairs affecting Singaporeans. Please use our online web form to contact us  Read More →

By Sean Coughlan, BBC News education correspondent Imperial College is going to open a medical school in Singapore, in partnership with a local university. This will be the first time that the London university has delivered a course overseas. The medical course, which will accept its first intake in 2013, will teach about 150 students a year. Financial pressures have restricted the expansion of universities in the UK - but there has been a steady growth in overseas operations. The medical school in Singapore - which will become the third in the country - will be run jointly by Imperial College London and Nanyang Technological University. Read rest of article here.  Read More →