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Why do you need a military man to manage gambling?

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winnipegjets

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SAF General takes over colleague as Tote Board member

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BG Tan Kok Ming Desmond (L), who is currently Director, Joint Operations & Planning Directorate at MINDEF, will be taking over retiring member, BG Chia Choon Hoong (R), on Jan 1, 2015.

SINGAPORE - The Singapore Totalisator Board (Tote Board) will have a new board member in 2015.

Brigadier-General (BG) Tan Kok Ming Desmond, who is currently Director, Joint Operations & Planning Directorate at the Ministry of Defence, will be taking over retiring member, BG Chia Choon Hoong, on Jan 1, 2015.

According to a statement by the Ministry of Finance, BG Tan graduated from Victoria University of Manchester in 1994 with a Bachelor of Engineering on a Singapore Armed Forces Merit Scholarship.

The former Chief Guards Officer was also the Singapore's National Contingent Commander under the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

The Board Chairman Mr Moses Lee Kim Poo, and six other board members to the Tote Board have also been reappointed by the Minister for Finance.

They are Mr Linus Goh Ti Liang, Head, Global Commercial Banking at OCBC Bank, MD and Head of Asian Equities Threadneedle Investments Mr Ng Soo Nam, Eastern Health Alliance Group CEO Mr Thali Koattiath Udairam, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Social & Family Development Mr Chan Heng Kee, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Culture, Community & Youth Ms Yeoh Chee Yan and Mr Ng Wai Choong, Deputy Secretary (Policy), Ministry of Finance.
The other three members who were reappointed in May 2014 to the Tote Board are Mr Kon Yin Tong, Partner at Foo Kon Tan Grant Thornton LLP, Executive Chairman of Sing Lun Holdings Ltd Mr Patrick Lee Kwok Kie, and Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health Mrs Tan Ching Yee.

The Tote Board operates various gambling and gaming channels in Singapore through Singapore Turf Club and Singapore Pools. Revenues collected from these sources are then channelled towards community projects.
 
singveld

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cosy job for them. to guarantee future generals loyalty to the party. Singapore not the first and will not be the last country to do this.
Treat your retired generals well. and many years of prosperity. Treat them badly and you get military coup.

Some opposition supporter here once told me LKY not afraid the generals. LOL. The civilian leader who are not afraid of the military, are death, imprison, house arrested or exile from the country.
 
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singveld said:
cosy job for them. to guarantee future generals loyalty to the party. Singapore not the first and will not be the last country to do this.
Treat your retired generals well. and many years of prosperity. Treat them badly and you get military coup.

Keep these mother fuckers well fed, you will have peaceful and prosperity years ahead.

Yes, LkY is right because he can't swim against the tide. He just have to manage the flow to his advantage.
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how do u know singapore is not already a military regime?we have a bridgadier general running the country,a chief of defense running smrt and this guy running singapore pools.smells like corruption in indonesia to me.
 
laksaboy

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Until the SAF scholarship system is scrapped or revamped and the PAP is prevented from picking these paper scholar men for PAP leadership and heading public institutions, nothing is going to change.

The country is waxing worse and worse with these military yes-men in charge. 60% of Sinkies want this.
 
CoffeeAhSoh

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winnipegjets said:
SAF General takes over colleague as Tote Board member

20141229_toteboard_mof.jpg

BG Tan Kok Ming Desmond (L), who is currently Director, Joint Operations & Planning Directorate at MINDEF, will be taking over retiring member, BG Chia Choon Hoong (R), on Jan 1, 2015.

SINGAPORE - The Singapore Totalisator Board (Tote Board) will have a new board member in 2015.

Brigadier-General (BG) Tan Kok Ming Desmond, who is currently Director, Joint Operations & Planning Directorate at the Ministry of Defence, will be taking over retiring member, BG Chia Choon Hoong, on Jan 1, 2015.

According to a statement by the Ministry of Finance, BG Tan graduated from Victoria University of Manchester in 1994 with a Bachelor of Engineering on a Singapore Armed Forces Merit Scholarship.

The former Chief Guards Officer was also the Singapore's National Contingent Commander under the International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan.

The Board Chairman Mr Moses Lee Kim Poo, and six other board members to the Tote Board have also been reappointed by the Minister for Finance.
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Re: Why do you need a military man to manage gambling ???



For news reports in recent years None have declined when called upon to do Public Service​
 
Papsmearer

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Why u need military man to manage gambling? the obvious answer is that for SAF scholar generals its the same thing mah.

What happens when you put scholar generals who are politicians in waiting and have no real military experience in charge of 400,000 soldiers (regulars and NSmen and reservists)? A gamble.

If war happens, its a crapshoot whether they will even win one battle. Therefore, they are gambling with the lives of sinkie soldiers. This is right up the alley for them.
 
The_Hypocrite

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These generals dont command any loyalty from the rank n file. If the general revolts. He got followers meh?

singveld said:
cosy job for them. to guarantee future generals loyalty to the party. Singapore not the first and will not be the last country to do this.
Treat your retired generals well. and many years of prosperity. Treat them badly and you get military coup.

Some opposition supporter here once told me LKY not afraid the generals. LOL. The civilian leader who are not afraid of the military, are death, imprison, house arrested or exile from the country.
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Confuseous

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Papsmearer said:
Why u need military man to manage gambling? the obvious answer is that for SAF scholar generals its the same thing mah.

What happens when you put scholar generals who are politicians in waiting and have no real military experience in charge of 400,000 soldiers (regulars and NSmen and reservists)? A gamble.

If war happens, its a crapshoot whether they will even win one battle. Therefore, they are gambling with the lives of sinkie soldiers. This is right up the alley for them.
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It is also all about rewarding these boy scouts to make them stay loyal.
It is all part of the system to buy loyalty.
 
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