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While NSmen die already also nobody cares?
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Citizenship affairs: Does status count?
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to Tuesday's letter, 'Different standards in citizenship events' by Ms Cheah Soo Lee, and last Sunday's report, 'Citizen Gong Li'. The Sunday report read: 'The ceremony is held at the constituency level or at the national level. In the latter, selected groups are chosen to get their papers in a more formal setting.'
Readers like me can only conclude that not everyone who attains Singapore citizenship is treated the same way. It appears that, depending on your status, you will be treated differently. Is this true? Can someone shed some light on who gets preferential treatment? Must you be a famous star like Gong Li? Or an influential businessman? As a native Singaporean, I feel it is important to treat all new citizens equally. Why not hold such an important ceremony at national level on a quarterly basis?
There is no lack of respectable indoor venues instead of holding it outdoors in a makeshift tent, like a Seventh-Month auction or funfair. It cheapens the experience and as a new citizen like Ms Cheah, I would feel very second-class indeed. Karen Goh (Mdm) <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Citizenship affairs: Does status count?
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to Tuesday's letter, 'Different standards in citizenship events' by Ms Cheah Soo Lee, and last Sunday's report, 'Citizen Gong Li'. The Sunday report read: 'The ceremony is held at the constituency level or at the national level. In the latter, selected groups are chosen to get their papers in a more formal setting.'
Readers like me can only conclude that not everyone who attains Singapore citizenship is treated the same way. It appears that, depending on your status, you will be treated differently. Is this true? Can someone shed some light on who gets preferential treatment? Must you be a famous star like Gong Li? Or an influential businessman? As a native Singaporean, I feel it is important to treat all new citizens equally. Why not hold such an important ceremony at national level on a quarterly basis?
There is no lack of respectable indoor venues instead of holding it outdoors in a makeshift tent, like a Seventh-Month auction or funfair. It cheapens the experience and as a new citizen like Ms Cheah, I would feel very second-class indeed. Karen Goh (Mdm)
<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Citizenship affairs: Does status count?
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to Tuesday's letter, 'Different standards in citizenship events' by Ms Cheah Soo Lee, and last Sunday's report, 'Citizen Gong Li'. The Sunday report read: 'The ceremony is held at the constituency level or at the national level. In the latter, selected groups are chosen to get their papers in a more formal setting.'
Readers like me can only conclude that not everyone who attains Singapore citizenship is treated the same way. It appears that, depending on your status, you will be treated differently. Is this true? Can someone shed some light on who gets preferential treatment? Must you be a famous star like Gong Li? Or an influential businessman? As a native Singaporean, I feel it is important to treat all new citizens equally. Why not hold such an important ceremony at national level on a quarterly basis?
There is no lack of respectable indoor venues instead of holding it outdoors in a makeshift tent, like a Seventh-Month auction or funfair. It cheapens the experience and as a new citizen like Ms Cheah, I would feel very second-class indeed. Karen Goh (Mdm) <TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR>Citizenship affairs: Does status count?
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->I REFER to Tuesday's letter, 'Different standards in citizenship events' by Ms Cheah Soo Lee, and last Sunday's report, 'Citizen Gong Li'. The Sunday report read: 'The ceremony is held at the constituency level or at the national level. In the latter, selected groups are chosen to get their papers in a more formal setting.'
Readers like me can only conclude that not everyone who attains Singapore citizenship is treated the same way. It appears that, depending on your status, you will be treated differently. Is this true? Can someone shed some light on who gets preferential treatment? Must you be a famous star like Gong Li? Or an influential businessman? As a native Singaporean, I feel it is important to treat all new citizens equally. Why not hold such an important ceremony at national level on a quarterly basis?
There is no lack of respectable indoor venues instead of holding it outdoors in a makeshift tent, like a Seventh-Month auction or funfair. It cheapens the experience and as a new citizen like Ms Cheah, I would feel very second-class indeed. Karen Goh (Mdm)
