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EDITORS' NOTE: The NTUC voucher for last week's quiz has been won by Mr Low H X. This week's quiz will be published on 9 Nov 2008 between 9am to 11am on our blog. By Eugene Yeo, Senior writer It appears that Mr Tan has an enemy out there who is attempting to sabotage his good work. "Siew Khim", who seems to know quite a bit about Mr Tan, has been posting potentially defamatory statements on his blog for the past one week. Mr Tan believed that "Siew Khim" is "probably on the payroll of an organisation, and is paid to harrass me in my blog." Now which organization does "Siew Khim" belong to ? According to our sources, quite a few officials from various branches of the bureaucracy have expressed unhappiness over Mr Tan's efforts to "instigate" the protestors to take up a class action suit against the banks as was alleged by "Siew Khim" in his posts that Mr Tan has offended a number of "wealthy and powerful" people who will not let him "go easy this time". In Singapore, the government is closely linked to the wealthy elites in the banking and financial industry, - a powerful closet clique of a few individuals and families whose vested interests are interwined intimately with one another like a cobweb. Mr Tan had made an open appeal to his readers to help trace the IP address of "Siew Khim". The lawyer on our team said that some of the statements made below can be construed as possible libel which serve to tarnish Mr Tan's public standing and reputation. Mr Tan Kin Lian's appeal for help: http://tankinlian.blogspot.com/2008/11/stolen-identity.html There are many ways that a thief can steal and use your personal identity to open credit card or access private information. Some people in the internet pretend to be somebody else. They are also thieves and, if caught, can be prosecuted as thieves. Some people hide behind a fictitious name and attack other people, including defamation. These people are commiting a crime and a civil offence. I hope that these people are aware about the legal consequences. http://tankinlian.blogspot.com/2008/11/trace-ip-address-of-siewkhim.html Dear Mr. Tan, I suggest that you block the rubbish that is being posted by SiewKhim. This person is really terrible. He writes defamatory, malicious statements. REPLY I posted his comments so that his IP address can be traced. He is probably on the payroll of an organisation, and is paid to harrass me in my blog. I believe that this is a criminal act and can implicate his paymaster as well. Some can help me to locate his IP address. You can check the time of his posting and check against the log of the site meter (recent visitors - details) to get the following page: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=stats&s=s30tankinlian&r=8 Happy detective work! Posts by "Siew Khim" (the potential defamatory statements are crossed out) https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11702093&postID=8493923706607050879&isPopup=true Kin Lian, I give you an actuarial problem. If you can solve that problem you should be able to use your actuarial ingenuity to pick up the pieces from your solution to the problem to discover my identity. Look you claimed to be the best and the cleverest CEO and Actuary in Singapore and Johore Baru including Batam. No pray pray eh!!! Are you prepared to test the quiz? I saw your photo in today's ST. You are really ugly man with your butcher belly. Kin Lian, I thought you gonna bar any postings from me? What the change of heart? You are getting soft my man. You are now using your blooging kaki to hantum me for my direct truthful comments on you. That's no fair man. They dared me to face you like the movie "High Noon" one to one with our guns ready. Coward does not mean refusing to show identity or not wanting to have one to one fight or to come out in the open. Such action is called "stupidity" not cowardice. You kaki called me all kinds of names. I don't want to waste time on such childish behavior. Futher they are venting their frustration on the failed investment. https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11702093&postID=3909168876946331866&isPopup=true Kin Lian, Now you are telling people that you are also an investment guru. What did you get the skill? You only know how to sell lousy par policies to NTUC workers. During your time as CEO of NTUC Income you never talk about asset share to compute policy values. You still used the old damn XXXXXXX method, min SA. Now you are outside and become XXXXX because your former independent director XXXXXXX. Look Kin Lian, give the dude a chance to show himself before XXXXXXX. You dig Kinny? https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=11702093&postID=8233746630732145804&isPopup=true Kin Lian, The way you reply is basically you are not going to do anything. Even if you intend to do something with the NTUC Income bonus issue comes this AGM, I don't think they care. They are no afraid of any damn protest or action you want to take. They have a big net ready to catch you from your ass, the moment you open your big mouth. Look Kin Lian, you have offended MAS indirectly the PAP regime and many powerful and wealthy people linked to the regime. They will not let you go easy this time. You know you game is up because you have made a fool of yourself. The fact that you chicken out in the last AGM simply proves that your action has no bite meaning you have XXXXXXX. What a pity!!!! Hey you guys that worship Kin Lian as Lord Master of Singapore. I am asking you to examine Kin Lian's action at the 11th hour of NTUC Income last AGM. What did he do? He throw in the towel citing al, the big names and sat during the entire AGM proceeding tongue tied. Before the AGM, he was on the war path organising protest and collecting signatures just like what he is doing now, only that voicing your grievances at Speaker's Corner was not allowed by the PAP at that time. Do you think your hero will not repeat his this again? You watch and see and believe !!!! The current CEO of NTUC Income is a Malaysian. He was kicked out of Prudential as CEO and somehow this kind hearted Kin Lian make him independent director of Income. Kin Lian play punk with the chairman and subsequently with the progress of time irritated the entire Income's board. So they gang up and with the blessing from the political masters kick Kin Lian out. So this Malaysian fellow not only stole the job of our Singapore born hero but also kick out his good friend, mentor and comrade in arms. In this fucking world, everybody is making use of everybody and you will be intensely abused depending on your position, status and connection at that time. For example in Malaysia you can commit murder and get away with it if you are highly connected with the scum Malay Muslim UMNO bastards. Also read the Straits Times latest report updated at 6.08pm on this matter here. (Mr Tan's entry was posted yesterday morning. Why did the media take so long to publish this news and only after we spill on it in the morning today ?) DISCLAIMER: The above is posts are reproduced directly from Mr Tan Kin Lian's blog which is in the open domain word for word without any editing. We strongly condemn the malicious statements made by "Siew Khim" and we urge those with the necessary IT skills to help Mr Tan nab the culprit.  Read More →

Photos by Lim Siow Kuan and Cheng Siew Peng                                 Our coverage of the protest at Hong Lim Park on 1 November: Field report and photos Video of Mr Tan Kin Lian's speech (Part1) Video of Mr Tan Kin Lian's speech (Part2) Video of Mr Goh Meng Seng's speech   DISCLAIMER: The writers of this blogs are NOT RESPONSIBLE for any of the placards or banners displayed above. Neither do we approve or support the content within. Please email us at [email protected] if you find any of the photos inappropriate or offensive.    Read More →

By Fang Zhi Yuan, Chief Editor and Cheng Siew Peng, Senior writer [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woEOibikm5M&hl=en&fs=1] Due to indirect pressure from the alternative media as well as news blogs like ours which has been reporting on the weekly Saturday investors' gathering at Hong Lim Park, the mainstream media was left with little choice but to increase its coverage of this event of utmost public interest gradually. If you do notice, the Sunday Times only publish a small section consisting less than 4 paragraphs of the first protest a month ago. Today, it has dedicated one entire page on it with 3 photographs while previously there were none. Now, let's compare our report of the event compared to The Sunday Times and Channel News Asia: 1. Angry investors ponder legal action, crowd swells at Hong Lim Park by Wayangparty Club 2. Fourth rally draws 500 strong crowd by The Sunday Times 3. Troubled investors of Lehman structured products get more organized by Channel News Asia The only similarities these 3 reports share is in the estimate of the crowd. We estimated it at 600 plus while the state media at 500. Siew Peng, who was at the protest last week, had noticed an appreciable increase in the number of protestors. Isn't this an affront to the government's call to the investors to go through proper channels ? During the past few days leading up to the protest, both the Prime Minister and Senior Minister have stepped forward to urge investors to exercise patience and restraint. Had these investors trust their advice, they would not be present at Hong Lim Park yesterday at all. Both papers sought to downplay the rising anger and frustration felt by the beleaguered investors. CNA focused on the investors getting themselves more organized while The Sunday Times added a deliberate spin towards the end to mislead readers that investors are generally ambivalent about Mr Tan's suggestion of taking up a class action suit: "While Mr Tan had mentioned talking to lawyers, investors told The Sunday Times they would try other avenues first. One DBS High Notes 5 investor, Mr Alex Wu, 53, a civil servant, said: 'I don't want to pay good money for bad money.' Another DBS High Notes 5 investor, a 60-year-old retiree who wanted to be known only as Madam Tham, said: 'We want to settle this harmoniously. This is still our national bank and we respect it.' These investors belong only to the minority. 7 out of 10 investors we interviewed are visibly distressed and have expressed their interest and support for a class action suit. The Sunday Times also conveniently forgot to report on the placards placed by the DBS Highnote Investor Group on the ground lambasting DBS for betraying their trust or the huge applause from the crowd when Madam Ng openly chastised the DBS for "bandkitry" and "sXXXdling the people's money while lavishing exorbitant pay packages and bonuses on their senior executives." True to its atrocious journalistic standards as the 144th media in the world in terms of press freedom, The Sunday Times cleverly put another article by Gracia Chiang entitled "I walked in with my eyes open " above its report on the Hong Lim Park rally yesterday to generate a misleading perception among the public that those investors who attended the protest may not deserve as much sympathy after all. In the article, Sunday Times gave lop-sided prominence to TWO investors who have lost signficant sums of money through the purchase of the structure-linked products and are not lodging a complaint because they "walk in with their eyes open" while there was no write ups on the plight of the SIX HUNDRED investors present at Hong Lim Park, some of whom lost their entire life-savings. Is this what we call a fair and balanced report ? By its own admission in an uncharacteristic freudian slip, The Sunday Times revealed unwittingly that it had been aggressively hunting down structure-linked investors who have not lodged their complaints to the FIs: "A chief executive of a financial institution said he knows of pockets of 'responsible investors who are facing up to the facts and who are not intending to do anything'. He estimates that these account for some 10 to 20per cent of his clients. However, he was not able to let The Sunday Times contact them, citing client confidentiality and 'not wanting to stir up something'. " The use of the term "responsible investors" to label those who accepted their losses wholeheartedly which seem to carry a subtle insinuation that the investors who are making noise now are "irresponsible" is utterly unacceptable and disgraceful by normal standards of decency! Amongst the 10,000 investors who bought the structure-linked products, there will definitely be a minority of investors who are not complaining either because they know what they are buying before they bought it or because they are so filthy rich that they do not see the point of going through all the trouble to lodge a complaint. They belong to the anomaly rather than the norm. The article ended with a rather condescending jibe at the protestors to remind them that not all investors are as traumatized as them: "Financial adviser Ms Lou said: 'I'm not going to die because of this $10,000. I invest money that I don't need to use for the next two years at least, so there's no impact on the way I lead my life.' Year-end vacations will go on as planned and Ms Lou is 'shopping around' for a trip to Australia. IT entrepreneur Mr Lai is also not about to cancel his four jaunts to Hong Kong, Australia, Japan and Korea." Now, how much is Miss Gracia Chiang earning a month as a journalist ? A few thousand dollars ? Did she lose her entire savings of S$400,000 like the 75 year-old granny here ? To the rich elites, S$100,000 is one-sixth of a "peanut" which can be dispensed away easily without much fuss. For some people, it represents their entire life of hard work, sweat and tears, for example this couple I spoke to who ran their own provision ship for 50 years to save up S$50,000. They have never taken any holidays or traveled outside Singapore other than Malaysia in their entire lives. This old auntie was asked to invest in the minibonds by the bank's relationship manager promising a higher return with absolute capital protection. And in less than a year, she lost every single cent. She was planning to go for a holiday with her husband back to her hometown in Swatow, China. One of our readers shared with us the plight of her aged parents who have to fly all the way to Hong Kong to find out more about their purchases when the saga first erupted because the local bank simply does not have the information to tell them. Will Miss Chiang please get her facts right first before publishing another disgusting piece of hogwash just to please her senior editors who are obviously trying to minimize the fallout from this episode ? Is our mainstream media a voice for ordinary citizens like you and me or a voice for the establishment ? How many voiceless voices are there yearning to be heard amongst the investors out there ? How many stories of agony and pain remain untold ? And how can they be dismissed just because our Prime Minister who bring home S$3.76 million dollars a year tell them to "take personal responsibility for their investments" ? The editors of this blog vow to give a voice to every voiceless Singaporean who have been marginalized by the state-controlled media. If you have a story to share with us, email us at: [email protected] We will get it out in the fastest possible time to the entire blogosphere. Alternatively, if you support what we are doing, please help us forward our URL www.wayangparty.com to all your friends and colleagues. The more Singaporeans know about this blog, the less they will be inclined to believe the propaganda filth churning out from SPH's head office at Braddell daily. EDITORS' NOTE: We will be taking turns to update our blog 5 to 10 times daily with the latest entry at 12 midnight, so for those of you who have visited us in the morning, you have to check again in the evening for more updated and ground-breaking news as you may have already found out, things move very fast here. We will be bringing you more photos from Hong Lim Park and a hilarious video on Schwarzenegger's jibe at Obama later.  Read More →