Serious Oppies Have Defamed Good Fathers PAP Melvin Yong And John Tan Over 'Expired' Chocolates!

[JohnTan]

Mr Melvin Yong, Member of Parliament for Tanjong Pagar GRC, posted a Facebook post on Sunday evening, accusing of falsehoods being circulated on social media that the chocolates given out by activists from People Action Party were expired and noted that the claim was untrue as the date shown on the packaging clearly shows that the chocolates only expires in 2020 instead of the alleged 2011 date.

Mr Yong had earlier paid a “Father’s Day” visit this morning (16 June) to Pek Kio Market at Cambridge Rd, near Little India.

Photos of his visit were shared on his Facebook page, where the People’s Action Party MP wished “all fathers and fathers-to-be a very Happy Father’s Day!”

Apparently, while visiting Pek Kio Market this morning, he was distributing chocolate bars to residents, with the PAP logo and his name pasted on top of the chocolate bar wrappers.


Soon, pictures of the distributed chocolate bars began to appear on social media, with people asking if the chocolate bar shown has been expired.

After receiving notification of the messages, TOC wrote to Mr Yong at 5pm to ask if he could provide a response to the claim that is being circulated. However, no response has been provided by Mr Yong.

At 8pm, Mr Yong posted a message on his Facebook page saying that someone has deliberately circulated falsehood online.

“It has come to my attention that someone has deliberately circulated a falsehood following our Father’s Day walkabout this morning,” Yong said. “The social media post and Whatsapp message falsely allege that the chocolate given out by our PAP activists at Pek Kio Market had expired in January 2011.”

“The photo that accompanied the false claim clearly shows that the expiry date on the chocolate wrapper is 9 January 2020. The wrapper also indicates that the format for the BEST BEFORE date is ‘DD/MM/YY’ (e.g. 09/01/20),” he added.

“Thanks to all our volunteers who bought the chocolates, and helped in the distribution this morning.”

That is to say, the picture in question showed that the year of the expiry date should be interpreted in ‘YY’ format (i.e, ’20’) rather than in ‘YYYY’ format (i.e, not ‘2011’). The number ’11’ following ’20’ behind was probably part of some production numbers.

However, it still begs the question why the need to put the PAP logo and the MP’s name, “Melvin Yong”, onto the chocolate to give out to the residents for Father’s Day celebration?

Is Mr Yong starting his campaign for the General Election already?

Mr Yong was an Assistant Commissioner of Police with the Singapore Police Force (SPF). He joined the SPF in 1995 and “retired” in August 2015 so that he could contest in September’s General Election 2015 as a PAP candidate. He became an MP through contesting in a GRC.

During his tenure in SPF, he held various key appointments, including Deputy Director (Planning & Organisation), Director (Administration & Finance), Commander of Clementi Police Division, Deputy Director (Operations) and Director (Public Affairs). He was also the Vice Chairman of the Police Sports Association and Vice Chairman of the POLWEL Cooperative Society.

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/20...falsehood-over-pap-chocolates-he-distributed/

 

[Valium]

Which idiot cannot read expiry date??

 

[AhMeng]

someone has deliberately circulated a falsehood

How did this PAP MP conclude that the whole incident was a deliberate one??? It could be a resident asking a valid question about expiry date before consuming. Instead of addressing and clarifying a pure legitimate concern, he went on an accusatory attack mode. Really dumb!

 

[JohnTan]

How did this PAP MP conclude that the whole incident was a deliberate one??? It could be a resident asking a valid question about expiry date before consuming. Instead of addressing and clarifying a pure legitimate concern, he went on an accusatory attack mode. Really dumb!

Oppies who are jealous of our grassroots outreach will stop at nothing to sabotage us.

 

[red amoeba]

We all know chocolates are rich in trans fats n sugar. What the fuck are they doing going against the healthy mantra that most Singaporeans believe in ?

 

[AhMeng]

We all know chocolates are rich in trans fats n sugar. What the fuck are they doing going against the healthy mantra that most Singaporeans believe in ?

Exactly.

 

[AhMeng]

Oppies who are jealous of our grassroots outreach will stop at nothing to sabotage us.

He should have fuck Nestle for the confusing way they printed their expiry dates. Why attack a layman who's merely expressing a legitimate concern. No guts to whack Nestle? Take it out on layman citizens?

 

[bobby]

Issit halah?

 

[Rogue Trader]

Luckily got fake news law.. the WhatsApp/social media users will rot in jail for this

 

[bobby]

Why Singapore got Ang Mo Kio & Pek Kio.....got Ting Nang Kio and Hwa Nah Kio and Keling Kio and Orh Kio or not?

 

[greedy and cunning]

Issit halah?

yeah yeah
itzit beri halal
the important point most non moslimp missed
is that halal things do not have expired date
they last forever

 

[Wayne Piew]

Mixed signals from PAP: Tharman says fight diabetes while Yong gives free chocolates

At an international Ministerial Conference on Diabetes in Nov last year, the Coordinating Minister for Social Policies Tharman Shanmugaratnam said that war on diabetes has to be waged on multiple fronts (‘Diabetes must be fought on multiple fronts: Tharman‘, 27 Nov 2018).
He said that employers, citizens and the whole of government need to chip in to fight a condition that not only compromised an individual’s quality of life, but was also a huge drain on national resources.
“It has been estimated that the global annual healthcare expenditure on diabetes was over US$700 billion (S$961 billion) in 2017,” said Tharman. Today, almost half a million of Singaporeans are already living with the disease.
The only way to keep the disease at bay is to change mindsets across the board, with a sustained effort at putting out information on the health risks of diabetes, said Tharman.

“The pleasures of a slice of chocolate cake are immediate, while the costs to health are hidden and set in much later, but with potentially severe consequences,” he said. Parents could also play a critical part in teaching children to eat healthy, he added.
At the conference, World Health Organisation director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus also said that the essential first step in fighting diabetes is “prevention, prevention, prevention”.

Tharman said that the effort to fight diabetes could not be confined to health ministries. “The levers or influences that governments have go well beyond the healthcare sector,” he said.
That is why, in Singapore, the food and beverage sector had been persuaded to switch to healthier ingredients, with almost half the hawker stalls offering at least one healthier option last year. More water dispensers were also being installed at hawker centres to encourage people to drink plain water instead of sugary drinks.
It has also been reported that Singapore is currently examining the idea of implementing a sugar tax in Singapore.

Minister says one thing, MP does another
While the ruling PAP government is telling Singaporeans through Minister Tharman that diabetes must be fought on multiple fronts with mindset changes across the board, PAP MP Melvin Yong was dishing out free chocolate bars to many elderly residents at the Pek Kio market yesterday (16 Jun) in “celebration” of Father’s Day.
Yong’s “generosity” came to light when residents mistakenly saw the expiry date on some of the chocolate bars. Photos of the said bars quickly spread online.
Yong then took to the social media in the evening accusing people of spreading falsehoods in social media. He noted that the claim was untrue as the date shown on the packaging clearly shows that the chocolate bars only expire in 2020 instead of the alleged 2011 date.

“It has come to my attention that someone has deliberately circulated a falsehood following our Father’s Day walkabout this morning,” Yong said. “The social media post and Whatsapp message falsely allege that the chocolate given out by our PAP activists at Pek Kio Market had expired in January 2011.”
“The photo that accompanied the false claim clearly shows that the expiry date on the chocolate wrapper is 9 January 2020. The wrapper also indicates that the format for the BEST BEFORE date is ‘DD/MM/YY’ (e.g. 09/01/20),” he added.

However, what is interesting is that on the chocolate bar wrappers, a PAP logo with his name was pasted on it, sending the message that the free chocolate bars actually come from Singapore’s ruling party, the PAP.

It then begs the question if eating chocolates is the new way of fighting diabetes by the PAP government.
Perhaps MP Yong was thinking that the “pleasures” of a chocolate bar are immediate but with no costs to health nor consequences?
Note that many residents living in Pek Kio are elderly.

 

[Huatable]

Father's Day was last weekend, 7 months' of shelf life left.

Those chocolates were stocklots, because Cadbury choco bars usually come with two-years shelf life. It was likely to be sourced from merchants such as Japan Home and likes, that handled near-expiry snacks.

 

[Wayne Piew]

Another good-looking Pappie MP!

 

[AhMeng]

Father's Day was last weekend, 7 month's of shelf life left.

Those chocolates were stocklots, because Cadbury choco bars have two years shelf life. It is sourced from merchants such as Japan Home and likes, that handle near-expiry snacks.

Cheap and Fresh are opposite. If it's cheap, it isn't fresh. If it's fresh, it isn't cheap. That's life. Lol

 

[laksaboy]

How did this PAP MP conclude that the whole incident was a deliberate one??? It could be a resident asking a valid question about expiry date before consuming. Instead of addressing and clarifying a pure legitimate concern, he went on an accusatory attack mode. Really dumb!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection

 

[laksaboy]

Why Singapore got Ang Mo Kio & Pek Kio.....got Ting Nang Kio and Hwa Nah Kio and Keling Kio and Orh Kio or not?

Kek Sng Kio vs Kek Sai Kio.

 

[Semaj2357]

Exactly.

hanor, summore gonna ban trans-fat items for health koncerns

Why Singapore got Ang Mo Kio & Pek Kio.....got Ting Nang Kio and Hwa Nah Kio and Keling Kio and Orh Kio or not?

kio-kuay-kio - vege or chicken dish?

 

[mojito]

Mr Melvin Yong, Member of Parliament for Tanjong Pagar GRC, posted a Facebook post on Sunday evening, accusing of falsehoods being circulated on social media that the chocolates given out by activists from People Action Party were expired and noted that the claim was untrue as the date shown on the packaging clearly shows that the chocolates only expires in 2020 instead of the alleged 2011 date.

Mr Yong had earlier paid a “Father’s Day” visit this morning (16 June) to Pek Kio Market at Cambridge Rd, near Little India.

Photos of his visit were shared on his Facebook page, where the People’s Action Party MP wished “all fathers and fathers-to-be a very Happy Father’s Day!”

Apparently, while visiting Pek Kio Market this morning, he was distributing chocolate bars to residents, with the PAP logo and his name pasted on top of the chocolate bar wrappers.


Soon, pictures of the distributed chocolate bars began to appear on social media, with people asking if the chocolate bar shown has been expired.

After receiving notification of the messages, TOC wrote to Mr Yong at 5pm to ask if he could provide a response to the claim that is being circulated. However, no response has been provided by Mr Yong.

At 8pm, Mr Yong posted a message on his Facebook page saying that someone has deliberately circulated falsehood online.

“It has come to my attention that someone has deliberately circulated a falsehood following our Father’s Day walkabout this morning,” Yong said. “The social media post and Whatsapp message falsely allege that the chocolate given out by our PAP activists at Pek Kio Market had expired in January 2011.”

“The photo that accompanied the false claim clearly shows that the expiry date on the chocolate wrapper is 9 January 2020. The wrapper also indicates that the format for the BEST BEFORE date is ‘DD/MM/YY’ (e.g. 09/01/20),” he added.

“Thanks to all our volunteers who bought the chocolates, and helped in the distribution this morning.”

That is to say, the picture in question showed that the year of the expiry date should be interpreted in ‘YY’ format (i.e, ’20’) rather than in ‘YYYY’ format (i.e, not ‘2011’). The number ’11’ following ’20’ behind was probably part of some production numbers.

However, it still begs the question why the need to put the PAP logo and the MP’s name, “Melvin Yong”, onto the chocolate to give out to the residents for Father’s Day celebration?

Is Mr Yong starting his campaign for the General Election already?

Mr Yong was an Assistant Commissioner of Police with the Singapore Police Force (SPF). He joined the SPF in 1995 and “retired” in August 2015 so that he could contest in September’s General Election 2015 as a PAP candidate. He became an MP through contesting in a GRC.

During his tenure in SPF, he held various key appointments, including Deputy Director (Planning & Organisation), Director (Administration & Finance), Commander of Clementi Police Division, Deputy Director (Operations) and Director (Public Affairs). He was also the Vice Chairman of the Police Sports Association and Vice Chairman of the POLWEL Cooperative Society.

https://www.theonlinecitizen.com/20...falsehood-over-pap-chocolates-he-distributed/

Sure. I believe it when they dare eat 5 boxes first.

 

[laksaboy]

Using (in my opinion very low quality) chocolates to buy votes.