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Monday, 31 December 2012

$2.05 million EC sold

$2.05 million EC sold

Are Singaporean girlfriends bullies?

Are Singaporean girlfriends bullies?

'Massage uncle' is back -- and women still can't leave him alone

This article was contributed by the STOMP Team.

The 'massage uncle' that has become such a hit with Singaporeans is back with a hilarious sequel.
In the first ad, the masseur had talked about his woes, and complained that he would prefer a desk job.
In the sequel, he has secured a desk job, but he's still unhappy -- because his reputation as a masseur has preceded him, and pretty girls now flock to him on their own.
The video was copied from a ad that originally aired in France.
Check out all three versions of the ad below.What a copycat! See how local advertisers blatantly steal creative ideas.
 
What a copycat! See how local advertisers blatantly steal creative ideas
 
A video advertisement for a job-search website seems to have copied the idea of an overseas commercial. Both the original and local advertisements show a massage therapist for models lamenting about his job.
The masseur talks about his woes, and complains that he would like to do a desk job one day.
The humour in the both advertisements stem from the fact that despite massaging models for a vocation, the massage therapists still dislike their jobs.
The local ad, however, seems to have directly copied the idea.
Even the dialogue and the scenes look similar to the original.

Do local advertisers lack originality to the point where they start stealing ideas?



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Sunday, 30 December 2012

NOT PROFITEERING. BUT POLITICKING?


NCSSocial media has been abuzz with questions relating to the role of Action Information Management Pte Ltd in the leaseback agreement with 14 PAP Town Councils.  There have been suggestions by some netizens that there should be a CPIB investigation and other suggestions that AIM is but an example of profiteering at the expense of citizens.  
Based on information that is so far available:
1.  The 3 directors of AIM are PAP members. Two of those 3 are also shareholders of AIM
2.  Dr Teo Ho Pin, the coordinating chairman is reported to have claimed that AIM is a PAP owned company. (technically, the company is owned by Chandra Das and Lau Ping Sum and not PAP, the political party.) 
3.  The company has a paid up capital of $2.
4.  Dr Teo has stated that there was a tender process for the sale and leaseback of the computer systems and that only AIM made a bid even though there were 5 companies that collected the forms. 
5.  Dr Teo also confirmed that only the software was sold to AIM at $140,000 and the terms of the leaseback was for the Town Councils to pay $785 per month per Town Council.  
6.  Chandra Das (Director of AIM) has stated that he and his fellow directors do not receive any directors' remuneration.  
7.  It has also been confirmed that the original service provider (NCS) that developed and maintained the system for the 14 Town councils is still providing the services under the leaseback arrangement as AIM has engaged NCS to maintain and develop the system.  

I am going to take all the facts above as true and accept Dr Teo and Mr Chandra Das' statements as true.  In fact, I am going to give Mr Chandra Das the benefit of the doubt.  Let us assume that the shareholders of AIM have not and will not be given any dividend.  AIM has entered into a transaction that is clearly profitable.  However, the Directors do not get any remuneration and the shareholders do not get any dividends.  In such an arrangement, there is a potential for profits to accumulate year on year.  What is going to be done with these profits eventually?  
A quick calculation of the rate of returns has alerted many people to the possibility of profiteering by AIM.  But, I do not think that this is an instance of profiteering.  After all, AIM has engaged NCS to maintain and develop the system.  In all likelihood, the $785 per month per Town Council is entirely channeled towards payments to be made to NCS as the service provider.  There is a high probability that AIM (having, presumably, no skilled personnel or infrastructure) is a middle man that is not deriving any profit at all.  
This is a leaseback arrangement that probably produces no profit for AIM and one where NCS continues to be the ultimate service provider at arguably more or less the same rate as before the leaseback.  After accepting Chandra Das' assertion as true and giving further benefit of the doubt so as to remove any suggestion of impropriety, we have to render the leaseback agreement as a zero profit venture for AIM.  
Why would a company go through a tender process and choose to make no profit at all unless there was some other purpose for the transaction?  I suspect that this transaction had nothing to do with profiteering and everything to do with politicking.  Nothing illegal.  Just dirty politics.  
The new contract with AIM containing the termination clause in the event of change in management was most probably intended to frustrate opposition parties in the event that a Town Council management ended up in the hands of the opposition.  Given the fact that Town Council management runs parallel to the seats won by MPs, the possibility of a change in management is always going to be inevitable.  The termination clause was probably inserted in anticipation of electoral defeat in some constituencies.  Probably. 
Anyway, for good measure, in order to eliminate the possibility of profits being made by AIM, I tried to do an online search through ACRA for the audited accounts of AIM.  This is what I found

The Annual Returns (AR) filed by the company is without accounts.  I didn't bother clicking through to purchase the AR.  I backtracked to look at the business profile of the company that is available here 

 
AIM is an Exempt Private Company.  There is thus no legal requirement for Audited accounts to be filed at the registry.  
 
The PAP has to come forward and give a proper detailed explanation on this whole transaction before the online speculations grow completely out of hand.  As it stands there are questions being thrown around as to the propriety of the tender process and the profits possibly being made by AIM.  With social media setting the agenda on this issue and MSM playing catch-up and the Town Councils and AIM being patchy with information, there is an urgent need for thorough explanation.  
 
What a way to end the year!
 
*Article first appeared on http://article14.blogspot.com

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WAKE THE F**K UP, SINGAPORE!


[Warning: this blog write-up contains obscene words. Readers be advised.]
My final standpoint is that Singapore is a great place to go on holiday to – sunshine, beaches, great food. But it is one of the worst places to work in (and thus live in, since you need to work to sustain yourself, duh) in the world.
MilomelI’ve had enough of this fucking parade of egos, moral righteous asses and self justified fucks.
I’ve had enough of job interviews.
Yes, I’ve been lucky. Yes I’ve aced almost every interview I’ve been to and been offered a fuck load of jobs. But no, I’m not happy about it. After this past fortnight of nightmarish interviews, I am now convinced the only reason I am here is because my family is here.
I can’t make films because the government is made of conservative cunts who censor all the good shit and banned the only local made film which has been decent (15 by Royston Tan). And all the other so-called independent productions companies are not independent because they’re all linked and commissioned by Mediacorp. And Mediacorp, the SOLE broadcasting company in Singapore is a government company. How fucking great. Is it just me or does anyone else see how damned ridiculous this whole situation is? Singapore is a joke. Our press and our media are monopolies owned by the government- How the FUCK are we ever going to achieve a free press and freedom of speech/expression status?
So yes, I can make films, but nobody will help me or give me the money because they are either (A) the Government or (B) too Fucking Scared of the Government. I’ll make my films still. I’ll make films with a camcorder and no lights and no equipment and no money, but I’ll make films where nobody in the fucking world can censor my content or tell me where the fuck the moral of the story should be in my plot. SO FUCK OFF.
I’ve gone for interviews where someone has:
1) Used his age against me to win an argument. I.e. I’m older than you and have a successful career whereas you haven’t proven yourself therefore your opinion (on this unrelated issue) is wrong. HELLO, THIS IS 21ST CENTURY SINGAPORE, WE ARE NO LONGER IN ANCIENT CHINA WHERE ELDERS AUTOMATICALLY GET RESPECT WITHOUT EARNING IT.
2) Used the fact I’ve studied and worked overseas against me. I.e. You can’t fit into the culture because you have been westernised and Singaporeans value efficiency whereas Western people are too laidback and unproductive. Also, there is the whole “How do you think your white boyfriend will impact on your image and lifestyle?” – YES THIS HAS COME UP IN INTERVIEWS 3 TIMES
3) (This point applies to all of them) Made me fill in an application form asking about my religion, marital status and intrusive details about my family such as their names and where they are working or studying. These forms weren’t as part of an equal opportunities form. And no, Singapore has no equal opportunities principles either. When I refused to fill it in, I realised I couldn’t cite the right to private life or freedom of religion as a reason, because SINGAPORE HAS NO FUCKING HUMAN RIGHTS. I got told off by a few people for adamantly not filling it in.
4) Interrupted me while I am speaking all the time. I fucking hate that. If you love the sound of your own voice so much why call it an interview? Why not call it a talk from the start, so I don’t even bother to speak at all?
5) Made assumptions about my values based on me being a Girl Scout in High School. Yes, there were assumptions I had good values, but then again, the good values were defined by him, and values are subjective. Also, I hate it when people make assumptions about your character based on the ecological fallacy (logical fallacy using stats of a group to define an individual in the world). I am an individual and I have my own values and I will not be defined by the fact I went camping and sang songs around the campfire.
6) Told me that if work clashed with my boyfriend’s birthday for example, I must put the job first. Are you fucking kidding me? When you are so short-staffed / have such poor management you cannot let employees off for important events like family / good friends / boyfriend’s birthdays, you need to reexamine your company structure and hire more staff to cover, NOT threaten your prospective employee during the interview that she MUST put work force. Go fuck off and kill yourselves please.
Wake up the fuck, Singapore. We can’t call ourselves a developed country when people still barge into you when you try to leave the lifts, trains or buses. That’s uncivilised barbaric behaviour. We can’t call ourselves a leading nation in politics when all we have is a dictatorship and we piss every country off by killing their people when they come in with drugs. We can’t call ourselves a leading nation in the economy when the only reason the economy is so successful is because we piss on the poor and our ministers are higher paid than President Obama. We can’t call ourselves leaders in international issues when we don’t even have fucking human rights.
Singapore is definitely a pitstop. A fucking short one if I can help it. And if any fucking person wants to bitch about how I am ungrateful and disloyal to my country, I’d say fuck off. Loyalty is earned. What has my government done for me? Fuck all. My parents fought for every single cent they got in this capitalist work environment, they paid for my medical bills, they paid for my school fees, NOT THE GOVERNMENT. Certain teachers in school inspired me to think and shaped my character. These were individuals who inspired and helped bring me up in the world through their unique views which didn’t conform to convention, not the school academic syllabus, and certainly NOT THE GOVERNMENT. A good government doesn’t need emotional blackmail to get its citizens to stay. And now it is griping about how the best talents leave, has it stopped to wonder why? It’s because not everyone can stand to live in a dictatorial draconian country, especially when they have been exposed to the benefits and necessity of free speech, media and press. Singapore is the only country in the world I know who has legitimised corruption.
Yes, I have great affection for Singapore (THE LAND) because I grew up here with many fond memories. But one cannot be citizen in a country where they cannot respect the government. The government is the influencing factor which determines social culture, politics, human rights (or lack of). So yes, I have tried to be happy in Singapore. And to a great extent I am, with my family, my good friends, and the sunshine. But I cannot bring myself to work in, and therefore pay taxes to a government I don’t trust or respect.
Maybe Paul and I will be in New York by Christmas.
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Melissa Low
* The author is a writer and film & theatre director and producer. She blogs at http://milomel.blogspot.com.
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WHAT WE DO? BURMA


Burma



Overview
After more than five decades of military rule, Burma's new government is undertaking high-level policy reforms in its desire to emerge from international isolation. Since the nominally civilian government came to power in March 2011, the Parliament has passed a number of laws which have allowed public demonstrations, and liberalized restrictions on the media, the Internet, and trade unions. Nobel Peace Prize winner Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and her party have been allowed to re-register and will run in the by-elections in April 2012. Despite the progressive rhetoric, the implementation of these policies will be a long-term effort, requiring the support of the international community.

Until the devastation of Cyclone Nargis in 2008, international assistance to Burma was extremely limited. While the UK and the European Union have increased funding in recent years, the U.S. has provided minimal humanitarian assistance inside the country. Burma receives an average of less than $5 in international assistance per person – compared with $48 per capita for Cambodia, and $66 per capita for Laos. It is now time for the U.S. government to capitalize on the reforms and significantly increase humanitarian assistance and support the growing capacity of local civil society actors.

Current Humanitarian Situation
Despite the promise of reforms, humanitarian needs persist. An estimated 500,000 people are displaced by conflict in eastern Burma and another 800,000 Muslims in western Burma, known as the Rohingya, are stateless and lack the most basic of human rights. On June 3, 2012, inter-communal violence erupted between the Rakhine and the Rohingya communities, which quickly evolved into large-scale, state-sponsored violence against the Rohingya. Rohingya who subsequently fled were denied refuge by Bangladesh, and urgent measures must be taken to protect this vulnerable population. A number of conflicts with ethnic armed groups also persist, and have forced approximately 3 million Burmese to flee to neighboring countries. The government will need to invest significant political effort to translate various ceasefires with these groups into sustainable peace. For refugees from eastern Burma, return to their homes may not be realized due to the extensive use of landmines by all parties to the conflict.
Field Reports
  • 10/30/2012
    Despite an abundance of natural resources, Rakhine State is the second-poorest state in Burma. The simmering tension that exists between the Rakhine and stateless Rohingya communities has been stoked by poverty for decades. However, in June 2012 that tension boiled over. What began as inter-communal violence was followed by a wave of state-sponsored persecution of the Rohingya, along with a refusal to allow humanitarian agencies access to the northern part of the state, where the majority of Rohingya live. In October, Rohingya and other Muslim communities were attacked again, resulting in the destruction of thousands of houses, the displacement of tens of thousands of people, and an unknown number of deaths. In the state capital, Sittwe, tens of thousands of displaced Rohingya are now living in segregated, squalid camps outside of town and cut off from their livelihoods. The conflict has brought much-deserved international attention to the long-neglected situation of Burma’s Rohingya. The fact that it is taking place during a period of dramatic change in the country’s governance presents the world with a chance to finally put an end to discrimination against the Rohingya and restore their citizenship.
  • 10/30/2012
    For decades, Burmese Rohingya fleeing persecution have sought refuge in Bangladesh. June’s inter-communal violence in Burma’s Rakhine State, as well as subsequent state-sponsored persecution and targeted attacks against Muslim populations, have cast an international spotlight on this neglected population, and offered an opportunity to resolve the status of both stateless Rohingya inside Burma and those Rohingya who are refugees in neighboring countries. This could be an opportunity for Bangladesh to engage fully on this issue and develop its long-awaited refugee policy. Instead, the nation is rallying against the Rohingya by refusing entry to refugees and restricting humanitarian assistance. This response, besides representing a breach of international law, will weaken Bangladesh’s ability to secure international support as discussions of the Rohingya's plight intensify. The governments of Bangladesh and Burma should be engaging in bilateral - and perhaps multilateral - discussions about how to protect the rights of the Rohingya community.
In Depth Reports
Congressional Testimony
Successes
Throughout 2009, RI met actively with State Department officials and Congressional appropriators to encourage greater aid for the Burmese people. Because of our leadership on this issue, Congress provided some $36 million for democracy and humanitarian programs largely inside Burma, a major shift in U.S. policy that had previously limited the amount of humanitarian funding available for people inside Burma.

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အုပ္စုဖြဲ႔ မုဒိန္းမႈေၾကာင္႔ အိႏၵိယအႏွံ႔ ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ား အရွိန္ျပင္း၊ ရဲတစ္ဦးေသဆံုး

အုပ္စုဖြဲ႔ မုဒိန္းမႈေၾကာင္႔ အိႏၵိယအႏွံ႔ ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ား အရွိန္ျပင္း၊ ရဲတစ္ဦးေသဆံုး

နယူးေဒလီ၊ ဒီဇင္ဘာ ၂၇


အသက္ ၂၃ ႏွစ္အရြယ္ ေက်ာင္းသူ တစ္ဦးကို ၿမိဳ႕ေတာ္ေဒလီတြင္ ဘတ္စ္ကားေပၚ၌ အမ်ဳိးသားအုပ္စု လိုက္ ဝိုင္း၍ မုဒိန္း က်င့္ႀကံခဲ့မႈ ယခုလ အေစာပိုင္းတြင္ ျဖစ္ပြားခဲ့ေလရာ ႏိုင္ငံအႏွံ႔ က႐ုဏာ သက္သူမ်ား ေဒါသေပါက္ကြဲ ၾကၿပီး တရားမွ်တမႈ ရရွိေစေရးအတြက္ လမ္းမေပၚ ထြက္ၿပီး အာဏာပိုင္ကို ဖိအားေပးၾကေလရာ ဆႏၵျပပြဲမ်ား အရွိန္တိုးျမင့္လာၿပီး ထိပ္တိုက္ျပႆနာ ျဖစ္ၾကသည့္ ရဲမ်ားထဲမွ တစ္ဦးပင္ ေသဆံုးသြားေၾကာင္း သတင္းမီဒီယာ အသီးသီးက ေဖာ္ျပထားၾကသည္။

အၾကမ္းဖက္လိင္ အႏိုင္အထက္ ျပဳလုပ္ခံရသည့္ မိန္းကေလးကို စင္ကာပူသို႔ ပို႔ေဆာင္ ကုသေပးေန ၾကေၾကာင္း အိႏၵိယ အရာရွိတစ္ဦးက အတည္ျပဳေပးကာ ေဝဒနာ အေျခအေန မွာ အသက္လု ေနရေၾကာင္းႏွင့္ အထူး ၾကပ္မတ္ ကုသေနရၿပီး လိုအပ္လွ်င္ ကိုယ္ တြင္းအဂၤါ အစားထိုးမႈပင္ျပဳလုပ္ ရမည္ဟုလည္း ထုတ္ျပန္ထားသည္။ အထက္ေဖာ္ျပပါ က်ဴးလြန္မႈ အတြက္ လူေျခာက္ဦးကို ဖမ္းဆီးထား ၿပီး ရဲအရာရွိ ႏွစ္ဦးကိုလည္း ရာထူးမွ ရပ္နား ထားသည္။

စင္ကာပူရွိ ေမာင့္အဲလီဇဘတ္ ေဆး႐ံုတြင္ ၄င္းမိန္းကေလးကို ၾကပ္မတ္ ကုသေနသည္ဟု အိႏၵိယ အႀကီးတန္းသမားေတာ္ ေဒါက္တာ ဘီဒီေအသာနီက ဆိုသည္။ ထိခိုက္ခံရ သူ မိန္းကေလး၏ ကိုယ္တြင္းဒဏ္ရာ မ်ားအတြက္ ကိုယ္တြင္းအဂၤါအစားထိုးရန္လိုအပ္သည္ဟုလည္း   ၄င္းကဆိုသည္။

ဆႏၵျပသူမ်ားကလည္း သမၼတ နန္းေတာ္အထိ ခ်ီတက္ ဆႏၵျပၾကၿပီး ရဲက မ်က္ရည္ယိုဗံုးမ်ား၊ မီးသတ္ပိုက္ မ်ားျဖင့္ လူစုခြဲၾကသည္။ အစိုးရက က်ဴးလြန္သူမ်ား ျပစ္မႈထင္ရွားပါက တစ္သက္တစ္ကြၽန္း ျပစ္ဒဏ္ခ်မည္ဟု ကတိျပဳေသာ္လည္း ေဒါသထြက္ေနသည့္ ဆႏၵျပသူလူအုပ္ ႀကီးက မေက်နပ္ႏိုင္ဘဲ ေသဒဏ္ေပး ပါရန္ ေတာင္းဆို ေနၾကသည္။

အိႏၵိယဝန္ႀကီးခ်ဳပ္ မန္မိုဟန္ဆင္း လည္း ႐ုပ္သံလိုင္းမ်ားတြင္ ထြက္ေပၚ လာၿပီး အမ်ဳိးသမီးမ်ားအတြက္ လံုၿခံဳ ေသာ အိႏၵိယ ျဖစ္ရပါေစမည္ဟု ျပည္သူကို ကတိေပးခဲ့သည္။

ဒီဇင္ဘာလ ၂၃ ရက္ေန႔က ဆႏၵ ျပသူမ်ားႏွင့္ ရဲမ်ား ထိပ္တိုက္ေတြ႔ခဲ့ၿပီး ရဲတစ္ဦး ဒဏ္ရာရရွိခဲ့ကာ ထုိရဲမွာ ေနာက္ပိုင္း ထိုေဝဒနာျဖင့္ ကြယ္လြန္ သြားခဲ့သည္။ "ျပည္သူေတြဟာ ဒီမုဒိန္းမႈ တစ္ခုကိုပဲ တံု႔ျပန္ေနၾကတာမဟုတ္ ပါဘူး။ ေခါင္းေဆာင္မႈနဲ႔ပတ္သက္ၿပီး မေက်မခ်မ္း ျဖစ္ေနၾကတာပါ။ ေခါင္း ေဆာင္ေတြရဲ႕ ကိုင္တြယ္မႈအတြက္ မေက် နပ္တာပါ" ဟု ႏိုင္ငံေရးသံုးသပ္သူ နီရာဂ်ာေခ်ာင္ဒူရီက ေျပာၾကားသည္။ ဆႏၵျပပြဲ မ်ားေၾကာင့္ ႐ုရွား သမၼတ ဗလာတီမာပူတင္၏ အိႏၵိယခရီးစဥ္ လည္း ေရႊ႕ဆိုင္းမႈမ်ား ျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ ရသည္။
Ref:thevoicejournal

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India gang rape: 33-year-old bus driver nicknamed "Mental" said to be leader of group          

A 33-year-old bus driver who was nicknamed "Mental" by friends has been said to be the leader of the six-man group accused of the horrific gang rape of a 23-year-old female student who passed away in Mount Elizabeth Hospital this morning (Dec 29).

According to a report on The Straits Times, Ram Singh, a former school dropout whose bad temper sprung the nickname, was revealed by Delhi police to be the main accused in this case.

Singh was named along with his 26-year-old brother Mukesh and four others -- 19-year-old vegetable vendor Pawan Gupta; 20-year-old gym instructor Vinay Sharma; 28-year-old bus cleaner Akshay Thakur and a 17-year-old who worked as a helper on long-distance buses.

On Dec 16, the six were believed to have been drinking before they decided to take a bus -- which had tinted windows and curtains -- out for a joyride.

The group had robbed another man of his money before picking up the student and a male companion who were both heading home after a movie.

It was then that they took turns to rape the girl and beat up her friend, before stripping the pair and dumping them on the side of a road.

Ram Singh, his brother, Vinay Sharma and Pawan Gupta went back home after the incident and were arrested 48 hours later while the other two fled the city but got apprehanded by the police as well.

The six will face murder charges, which brings about a maximum punishment of the death penalty.

The victim was in a "critical" treatment at a Delhi hospital before the Indian cabinet acted on the professional advice of a team of doctors and flew her into Singapore, together with her father and two brothers, for treatment at the Mount Elizabeth Hospital.

Her condition took a turn for the worse yesterday (Dec 28) as she suffered cardiac arrest, infections in her lungs and abdomen, "as well as significant brain injury", before succumbing to her injuries earlier today.

This incident has sparked massive outrage across India, triggering demonstrations in New Delhi which claimed the life of a police constable after things turned violent between the protestors and the authorities.


Bollywood celebrity Salman Khan also condemned the perpetrators of this incident at a press conference to promote his latest movie, and said that rapists should be sentenced to life imprisonment if not "killed".

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