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Another Suicide at Swissotel! 3rd Jun 2015! Suicide Hub

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SINGAPORE: A man was found dead at Swissotel The Stamford, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said on Wednesday (Jun 3).

SCDF was requested for ambulance assistance at 1.10pm, and the man was pronounced dead at scene by paramedics.


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An eyewitness, who was about 50 metres away when the body fell to the ground, told Channel NewsAsia that the body landed between the hotel's main entrance and the Raffles City Shopping Centre McDonald's entrance.

"I think it must have been from very high up because the sound was very loud. People from the hotel were also looking down, while those around were stunned," the eyewitness, who requested to remain anonymous, said.

Manager for Marketing Communications at Swissotel Denice Lim also told Channel NewsAsia: "As it has just happened very recently, we are currently working with the police. The safety of our guests is paramount to us as well."

Another hotel executive, Marketing Communications Director Vivian Tung, said: "It is certain that the balconies are on review after these events. It's in the process of being implemented and reviewed. Every balcony has a lock. Based on guest requests, we have unlocked and locked balcony doors but the balconies remain an operational thing."

Five days earlier on May 30, an Australian woman in her 50s was found dead at the parapet of the second floor of the same hotel. Channel NewsAsia understands that she fell from the 60th floor of the building. No foul play is suspected, the earlier report said.

- CNA/kk
 

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I was there the other day. The place gave me bad vibes. :(

I was there just now at about 80 metres away. My friends and I after lunching at the SRC were just about to cross the road over to the side of the hotel. We heard a very loud bang thinking it was some prop that had exploded or some burst tyre. All we saw was a pair of legs. Can't see the head or body distinctly as it was quite messy. Almost vomited our lunch. Obviously we detoured and crossed the road over to the side of St Andrew Cathedral instead. Lousy sick feeling after witnessing all that. RIP!
 

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They should close off the balconies to all. The balcony provide great bird eye view but if u r suicidal, then easy to make the jump!
 

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SINGAPORE: A man was found dead at Swissotel The Stamford, the Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said on Wednesday (Jun 3).

SCDF was requested for ambulance assistance at 1.10pm, and the man was pronounced dead at scene by paramedics.


Manager for Marketing Communications at Swissotel Denice Lim also told Channel NewsAsia: "As it has just happened very recently, we are currently working with the police. The safety of our guests is paramount to us as well."

Another hotel executive, Marketing Communications Director Vivian Tung, said: "It is certain that the balconies are on review after these events. It's in the process of being implemented and reviewed. Every balcony has a lock.
- CNA/kk




Lawsuits On the Way ...?
 

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Maybe singapore can join japan as number one suicide capital of the world to show the world singapore's commitment to condoning failure and gdp growth.most asuicide and also happiest country.
 

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Maybe . also hear from kopi Ah Peks tat during the Japanese occupation many were buried at that site or very next door to it. bros can confirm ?????
 

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Maybe the place is haunted:confused:

With so many suicides, there might be some unhappy spirit around who wants company. So they are luring the living to join them:eek:
 

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A STORY FOR NATIONAL DAY. ST ANDREW’S CATHEDRAL, SINGAPORE.

PEACE AND TRANQUILITY CREATED IN A TIME OF RIOTS,

INTERNATIONAL DRUG WARS, CHAOS AND GHOSTS


https://jimmysantiago.wordpress.com...ots-international-drug-wars-chaos-and-ghosts/




St Andrew’s Cathedral is one of several restful sanctuaries in one of the world’s busiest and most densely packed countries. Its whitewashed facade and simple Gothic design are set in quite green grounds, minutes from the bustle of city life but refreshingly serene and calm. It came to being in chaotic times, however. Chaos around the world, in Asia, and even in peaceful little Singapore itself.

A church was originally built on the site in 1835-6, rebuilt in 1842, and the version we see today, built by Indian convict labour, which was completed in 1856. The earlier versions had been struck by lightning twice, and were the subject of superstitious rumours amongst Chinese Singaporeans, many of whom believed it was haunted by troubled spirits.

A mass panic occurred after one of the lightning strikes in 1852. Rumours spread that the church had been abandoned due it being haunted, and that the European Governor had ordered 30 natives to be decapitated. Their heads would then be used to placate the ghosts. These superstitious reports grew to such an alarming extent, a $500 reward was offered for the discovery of anyone spreading them.



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While the third and final structure was being built, Singapore was the scene of 2 violent riots, both of which led to many deaths.

The first, in 1851, was between Chinese communities, one of which had converted to Catholicism, one of which had not.

The second, in 1854, was another intra-ethnic clash,between Teochew and Hokkien speakers. Over 500 were killed across the island in the latter disturbances



1856, when the new church opened,was also a epochal moment in China, where the second Opium War started, one of the darkest blots on the British Colonial era. A key motivation for this shameful conflict was to defend the vile business of the Indian Jewish opium dealers, the Sassoon family. Their lucrative trade was threatened by a government understandably concerned at tens of millions of its citizens having their lives destroyed by the devastating opium epidemic. Four years later, at the end hostilities , among many onerous and humiliating terms, the Chinese were forced to cede Hong Kong to the British on a 100 year lease.

A strange year indeed. The British were building this gentle oasis of a church whilst launching an aggressive assault to defend international drug dealers.

1856 was also an notable year in Europe, with the 3 year Crimean War coming to an end. This peculiar campaign involved Britain and France coming to the aid of Turkey in its struggle with the Russian Empire. The Ottoman Turks had spent almost a millennium trying to conquer and colonise the whole of Europe, and very nearly succeeding on many occasions. Their power waned after 1683, when their 2nd attempt to capture Vienna, in the heart of Europe, was dashed under the leadership of the Polish general Jan Sobieski.

It might surprise many that Britain sided with a power that had spent several hundred years trying to invade the whole of Europe. The rather amoral motive of the British, as it had long been, was to challenge any European power which looked set to become the most powerful force on the continent. Even if it meant, as in Crimea in 1853, allying itself with perhaps the greatest enemy Europe ever had, the mighty Ottoman empire.

One of the most fascinating, unique, but brutally tragic wars was raging in China as St Michael’s Church was built. The Taiping Rebellion raged from 1850-65. An eventful period for China, being afflicted by the threat from without in the Opium War, as this internal conflagration raged simultaneously. This movement started when failed civil servant, Hong Xiuquan claimed he was the brother of Jesus, bringing the Christian message, or a rather bizarre version of it, to China.




At one point, a quarter of the country’s population came under the sway of his ‘Heavenly Kingdom’, which had its capital in Nanjing. Over 20 million lost their lives in this conflict, making it one of the deadliest of instances civil strife in history. When it was finally crushed, some of the refugees ended up in Malaysia and Singapore. Professed Christians, many of them would have visited St Michael’s Cathedral.


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The core of the Taiping movement were Hakka Chinese. Another curious link to Singapore is the fact long time leader and ‘Father of Singapore’ Lee Kwan Yew is himself of Hakka descent. His ancestors arrived in Singapore in 1863, as the rebellion was entering its final, bloody stages.
I hope anyone visiting the church, especially Singaporeans, can reflect for a moment in the aisles of the church, or the quiet gardens that surround it, to think of the discord in Singapore, Asia, and the world in this period.

The story of the church and its era tells us that different nations and races can do bad things to each other. It also tells us that the people from the same race can commit appalling acts against their own kind. It also shows us that good things can grow even when bad things surround them, and in the turmoil of the 1850s, this simple but beautiful building provided the same tranquil environment it does today, amidst the fast paced mayhem of the Lion City.



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https://jimmysantiago.wordpress.com...ots-international-drug-wars-chaos-and-ghosts/
 

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SINGAPORE: A 33-year-old man was found dead on Wednesday (Jun 3) at Swissotel The Stamford, just days after an Australian woman died in a fall at the same hotel.

SCDF was requested for ambulance assistance at 1.10pm, and the man was pronounced dead at scene by paramedics.

Police also said they received a call for help at 1.10pm at 2, Stamford Road, and found a man lying motionless at the said location.

"Police are investigating the unnatural death," a spokesperson added.
 
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