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Written by Our Correspondent An anonymous Singaporean has paid vocal PAP critic Alex Tan $1,000 to post a message on his blog. Alex is selling space on his blog at a minimum of $1 to raise funds for his election campaign: Alex is currently a member of the Singapore People's Party under the leadership of Mr Chiam See Tong and he has indicated his wish to participate in the next general election due to be called soon. All election candidates need to put a deposit of about $15,000 with the Elections Department in order to stand for elections and they need to obtain more than 12.5 per cent of the valid votes or their deposits will be forfeited. The amount of the election deposit has been increased gradually over the years, thereby preventing ordinary Singaporeans who are unable to cough out the money to stand for elections. The Election Department is under the purview of the Prime Minister's Office. There are no independent election commissions in Singapore. Since Alex joined politics, he has received a lot of support from netizens, many of whom praised him for his courage, dedication and passion. His "Vote PAP out" Facebook started only two months ago has garnered more than 3,300 members so far, many of whom are in their 20s and 30s. Despite his youth, some Singaporeans still have no qualms lending support to him, an indication of how frustrated they are against the ruling party. Another anonymous Singaporean donated $200 to Alex with the following message: Though the PAP leaders are all elites of the nation, an increasing number of Singaporeans are getting fed up with their arrogance, insensitivity and callousness. As they belong to the upper strata in society, may are unable to empathize with the suffering of ordinary Singaporeans. A view is gaining ground among Singaporeans that they need MPs who genuinely understand their concerns, worries and fears rather than those who hitch a free ride into parliament without a fight or by clinging on the coat-tails of heavyweight ministers. With the winds of change blowing Singapore, we need more young Singaporeans like Alex to step forward to reclaim the ownership of their nation before it is too late.  Read More →

I’ve always heard that the jobs that Singaporeans don’t want to do go to foreigners. And for a few years I actually bought that story. That was till I found these foreigners slowly moving from the so-called “dirty” jobs to more advanced professions in the lot of industries and starting to replace us “highly expectant” Singaporeans. The cost of living is rising year after year, but our wages have been getting lower. The reason given by the Government and companies is that its to make Singapore attractive for foreign investors. Now, lowering the wages of locals makes it difficult for them to survive based on the cost of living in Singapore. But the hiring of foreigners is cheaper in all aspects because they only expect a pay based on the cost of living in their homeland. Companies don’t care about the welfare of workers, they only care about the profit. Neither the government nor so-called trade unions like NTUC care either. As a result, these foreigners have indirectly pissed in our rice bowl and they garnish it with excrement when they leave this country for another like Australia, US, Canada and so on for better standards of living – while we have to put up with the job market they have spoilt and carry on with our miserable lives. A recent development at my workplace is a good example of what I mean. Apparently there is going to be an “elite squad” of foreigners who will be the high techincians in our department. Let me tell you, I work in a GLC and I’m not in the rocket science department. Before I got this job hokkein speaking uncles have been working in my job scope for donkey years. Every Singaporean in my department knows that we don’t need foreign talent for this! There are these 2 guys attached to one of my colleagues for the past few weeks getting trained in my department. Aren’t foreign talents supposed to have “talents” from the start? Why do we have to train them to become talents? If we took Ahmad, Yong Heng and Ramesh off the streets and gave them the special training these foreigners are getting, I’m sure they would be talents too! Why isn’t this happening and why wasn’t the job vacancy in my department made known to the public? Why are more foreigners getting employed in a huge Singapore-based GLC? From what I gather, this is not the only company in which such things are happening. If it’s a Singapore-based GLC then the government surely has shares in it. Why isn’t anything being done? While we give up 2 years of our precious youth in the name of National Service, the Singapore government is pimping this country, making Singapore spread its legs for foreigners who care nothing for Singapore or Singaporeans. Well, the pimp gets paid, but Singapore and its citizens just have to get used day in and day out by these foreigners. Giving them jobs and special training so that they can use Singapore as a stepping stone. The country I had once sworn to protect is now nothing but a cheap whore. Doesn’t it feel good about your place as a citizen of Singapore? NS FOR SINGAPOREANS! JOBS FOR FOREIGNERS! From A.L.  Read More →

VietnamNet Bridge, 11 February 2010 Police of the southern province of Tay Ninh and guards at HCM City’s Tan Son Nhat airport on February 9 rescued nine girls who were about to sold to brothels in Singapore. Police arrested three people, Tran Thi Kim Ngan, 19 from Tay Ninh, Ly Thanh Mong, 25 from Vinh Long province and Do Van Thanh Nhut, 21 from HCM City when they were carrying out formalities for nine girls to leave Vietnam to Singapore at the Tan Son Nhat airport. Two others were arrested after that, Vo Thi Hiep, 46 from An Giang province and Tran Thi Kim Ngoc, 19 from Tay Ninh province. According to investigators, these people went to provinces in the Mekong River Delta to choose pretty rural girls at the age of 20-30 to sell to brothels in Singapore. Ngan and Nhut directly met girls to persuade them to go to Singapore to work for an “extremely high salary”. However, they were sold to brothels. Police are expanding investigations and cooperating with Singaporean agencies to detect and rescue other Vietnamese girls sold to Singapore by this ring.  Read More →