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PAP MP Buys 6.5 million condo ! wow, Very Rich !

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Wah! PAP people are filthy rich!
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Mind you this is a 2009 report. Presently their income would be much more!!

PAP MP pays $6.5 million for unit at luxury condo Marina Bay Suites
December 9, 2009 by Our Correspondent
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According to a report by Business Times on 8 December 2009, Keppel Land said that it has two granted options to purchase units in Marina Bay Suites to a director of Keppel Land and his wife, and a director of Keppel Corporation (KepLand’s parent company) and his wife.

Mr and Mrs Niam Chiang Meng (white paper planner ? )have bought a 2,045 sq ft four-bedroom unit at the development for $4.6 million, or $2,238 per square foot. Mr Niam is a KepLand director.
Mr Niam Chiang Meng is the Permanent Secretary for the Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports. Prior to his appointment in 2005, Mr Niam served as Chief Executive Officer of the Housing and Development Board from 2002 to 2004.

A PAP MP Mr Alvin Yeo Hirn Hai have also bought a 2,680 sq ft four-bedroom unit for $6.5 million, or $2,442 psf together with his wife. Mr Yeo is a director of Keppel Corp. Mr Yeo is also a Member of Parliament for Hong Kah GRC.The Marina Bay Suites is a luxury condominium project built in the prime district of Marina Bay, just a stone throw away from the soon-to-be complete Marina Bay Sands Integrated Resort.
A 99-year leasehold project, it is constructed jointly by Singapore’s Keppel Land and Hong Kong’s Cheung Kong Holdings Limited and Hong Kong Land.

Together with other projects such as The Sail in the vicinity, the Marina Bay Suites is one of the most expensive condominiums in Singapore to date. Only the very rich and expatriates are able to afford a unit there.

In other first world countries, it will be near impossible for a civil servant or MP to buy such a high-end condominium with their modest pays. However, Singapore’s ministers and top civil servants draw the highest salaries in the world.

A Superscale grade (SR9) civil servant is expected to get an annual salary of $338, 100 this year, or $28,175 a month. (Source: Press release from Public Service Division, 26 Nov 2009) Being senior civil servants in the top echelon of the civil service, Permanent Secretaries are probably pay more. In comparison, the median pay of the average Singapore worker is only $2,600 a month.

Singapore MPs are given a monthly allowance of around $13,000 a month on top of their full-time jobs. It is not uncommon to see MPs like Mr Alvin Yeo holding directorships in state-linked companies such as Keppel Land.

For example, former Minister for Information, Acts and Communication Dr Lee Boon Yang was recently appointed as a non-executive Chairman of Keppel Corporation though he waas trained as a dentist.

When the issue of MPs holding multiple directorships was raised in parliament a few years ago, it brought a chorus of protests from some PAP MPs.

PAP MP John Chen, who holds 8 directorships said:

“I don’t think that there should be a cap on the number of directorship that a person can hold.”

His colleague Wang Kai Yuen who holds a record 11 directorships added:

“It’s not for the money because some of the companies pay me as little as $10,000 a year”

In Singapore, there is no clear distinction between the government and the private sector. Many of its major blue chip companies like DBS, Singtel and SIA are actually “pseudo-state” companies owned by either one of the government’s sovereign wealth funds – Temasek Holdings or GIC.

As such, personnel can be transferred seamlessly from the state-linked companies to the government and vice-versa and more than often not, they all belong to the same clique with affiliations to the ruling party.

Current Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong was a former CEO of NatSteel, a government-linked company. The Chairman of Singapore’s sole print media company SPH is Dr Tony Tan, a former deputy prime minister.

While there is nothing wrong in civil servants and MPs purchasing private properties, one cannot help wondering if such highly paid senior officials and representatives of the people are able to empathize with the hardships faced by ordinary citizens on the ground.

News source: Business Times, 8 December 2009
 
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enterprise2

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It's not so much what they earned or get (which is obscene). Rather it is the conflict of interest situation that is glaring. Government or politicians should never be in a directorship of private companies because u never can tell if there is conflict of interest.
 
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It's not so much what they earned or get (which is obscene). Rather it is the conflict of interest situation that is glaring. Government or politicians should never be in a directorship of private companies because u never can tell if there is conflict of interest.

There is this PAP MP who holds a full-time job with NTUC and then another full-time job with PA. From $15k allowance, he bumped his monthly income to the range of $50k. If that is not government welfare to the PAP, what is?
 

winnipegjets

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The government should release an annual list of civil servants, employees of GLC companies who make $100k an above. Then we can see how much of our tax dollars are being wasted.
 

blackmondy

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It's not so much what they earned or get (which is obscene). Rather it is the conflict of interest situation that is glaring. Government or politicians should never be in a directorship of private companies because u never can tell if there is conflict of interest.

Conflict of interest already starts from the top.

We already have a PeeM that sleeps legally with with the head of the biggest GLC here.
 

Tuayapeh

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Mr Yeo is a director of Keppel Corp!!

hello you all heard of the top 4 law firm in sinkapore....and no you clowns that kum beh lan firm called Lee & Lee is NOT one of them....he was their former managing partner and one of the top lawyers in town......


fyi only the uneducated and unsophisticated still believe that Lee & lee is a champion firm......just ask laksaboy.......
 

neddy

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There is this PAP MP who holds a full-time job with NTUC and then another full-time job with PA. From $15k allowance, he bumped his monthly income to the range of $50k. If that is not government welfare to the PAP, what is?

In many governments in the west, this will be investigated by the Auditor General, Anti-corruption.
Conflict of interest, moral hazard.

All assets of government ministers have to be declared, including gifts & property discounts received.
 

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They get up to 20 months of bonuses each year and multiple revenue streams for taking on multiple roles in both government and private sector. Each minister will receive quite easily up to $100 million during their lifetime from taxpayers. Civil serpents helping to run one of the smallest countries in the world also enjoy out of this world bonuses and salaries.
 

winnipegjets

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And they were able to create only 1 percent growth last year!!!! And they are still going to receive a generous bonus!
 

winnipegjets

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In many governments in the west, this will be investigated by the Auditor General, Anti-corruption.
Conflict of interest, moral hazard.

All assets of government ministers have to be declared, including gifts & property discounts received.

That's the PAP way of making its MPs rich.
 
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