Do u think this is appropriate? Are there no other pressing needs? MOE declined to divulge the total amount spent on this.
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Singapore Ministry of Education uses public funds to buy 80,000 YOG tickets.
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“”More than 100,000 of the 245,000 have been snapped up… These include the 80,000 tickets that were purchased by the Ministry of Education in May,” it said
=> Assuming a median price of $15 (see below), the amount spent by the MOE Sell Country Thieves is about $1.2M. Just consider the number of poor kids that could have been helped by this amount of money!
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_508041.html
Around 320,000 tickets will be made available for the 200 events across 26 sports with tickets priced at $10 (preliminaries), $15 (quarter-finals/ semi-finals) and $30 (finals). -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES 2010
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TICKETS of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games will go on sale worldwide from Wednesday.
Around 320,000 tickets will be made available for the 200 events across 26 sports with tickets priced at $10 (preliminaries), $15 (quarter-finals/ semi-finals) and $30 (finals).
They can be purchased online at the YOG official website (www.singapore2010.sg/tickets), at authorised sales counters island-wide or via the official ticketing hotline (+65 6348 2010).
Each ticket purchased is accompanied by a Singapore 2010 DBS Visa Prepaid Companion Card.
This card entitles the spectator to a maximum of four Mass Rapid Transit train rides and unlimited bus rides on the day of the event.
The Aug 14 to 26 Games, hosted here in Singapore, will welcome an estimated 3,600 athletes, aged between 14 and 18, from 205 National Olympic Committees worldwide.
YOG tickets selling like hot cakes!!!
<HR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #989898; COLOR: #989898" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->Next, MINDEF will buy the rest of the 100K tickets and force those army boys to attend.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/07/...another-farce/
“IF YOU want tickets to catch the Youth Olympic Games, you will have to act fast,” the Straits Times urged on 7 July. “Ticket sales to the first Youth Olympic Games have been brisk, with more than 100,000, or close to 50 per cent of tickets, having sold out,” it reported.
“”More than 100,000 of the 245,000 have been snapped up… These include the 80,000 tickets that were purchased by the Ministry of Education in May,” it said.
Ok. Wait. Hold on.
Is it true that ticket sales have been “brisk”?
Two months earlier, on 26 May, the same Straits Times reported that sales of the 320,000 YOG tickets “have been sluggish”. (Straits Times)
It also reported that since March 31 (when the tickets were first put up for sale), only 20,000 tickets had been sold in April and May.
Apparently, to overcome the slow sales, the Ministry of Education stepped in and cleaned up 80,000 tickets in May. The ministry said “all schools will be allotted tickets.” (Straits Times)
That brings the total number of tickets sold to 100,000, out of the 320,000 tickets available for the games – 20,000 bought by the public and 80,000 bought by MOE.
But hold on.
The Straits Times in May said there were 320,000 tickets put up for sale.
However, in July, the same Straits Times reported the number of tickets to be 245,000 instead.
What happened to 75,000 of the 320,000 tickets?
At the moment, no one seems to know.
It is indeed telling that almost half of the tickets sold so far have to be bought by the MOE.
Will students be made to pay for the tickets?
The answer seems to be yes – according to the Straits Times.
‘Sixty per cent of ticket costs will be borne by MOE while the remainder will be paid by the schools. It is, however, up to the schools to decide the ultimate cost borne by students,” the Straits Times report says.
And the MOE is not telling how much it paid for the 80,000 tickets.
So, in brief:
The 320,000 YOG tickets mysteriously became 245,000 tickets – leaving 75,000 tickets “missing”.
20,000 tickets were sold in two months.
MOE stepped in and bought 80,000 tickets in May but refuses to disclose how much it paid for them.
Students may have to pay for these tickets. It is up to the school to decide how much students pay for them.
The budget for the YOG has more than tripled from $104 million to $387 million.
And oh, dear Straits Times, the MOE buying up 80,000 of the tickets does not mean sales “have been brisk”. 20,000 tickets – or 6 per cent – bought by the public out of 320,000 (or even 245,000) is very sluggish sale indeed.
One wonders if this whole thing is not becoming another farce.
Whatever it is, it should be of great concern to the organizers (and the Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports) that one month before the games are to begin, tickets sales have been so bad – and that the budget for the games has jumped more than threefold, from $104 million to $387 million!
Methinks Vivian Balakrishnan and Teo Ser Luck have a lot to account for.
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Here are the news reports:
Tickets selling fast, sales “brisk”.
=> Assuming a median price of $15 (see below), the amount spent by the MOE Sell Country Thieves is about $1.2M. Just consider the number of poor kids that could have been helped by this amount of money!
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_508041.html
Around 320,000 tickets will be made available for the 200 events across 26 sports with tickets priced at $10 (preliminaries), $15 (quarter-finals/ semi-finals) and $30 (finals). -- PHOTO: SINGAPORE YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES 2010
<!-- story content : start -->
TICKETS of the inaugural Youth Olympic Games will go on sale worldwide from Wednesday.
Around 320,000 tickets will be made available for the 200 events across 26 sports with tickets priced at $10 (preliminaries), $15 (quarter-finals/ semi-finals) and $30 (finals).
They can be purchased online at the YOG official website (www.singapore2010.sg/tickets), at authorised sales counters island-wide or via the official ticketing hotline (+65 6348 2010).
Each ticket purchased is accompanied by a Singapore 2010 DBS Visa Prepaid Companion Card.
This card entitles the spectator to a maximum of four Mass Rapid Transit train rides and unlimited bus rides on the day of the event.
The Aug 14 to 26 Games, hosted here in Singapore, will welcome an estimated 3,600 athletes, aged between 14 and 18, from 205 National Olympic Committees worldwide.
<HR style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #989898; COLOR: #989898" SIZE=1><!-- / icon and title --><!-- message -->Next, MINDEF will buy the rest of the 100K tickets and force those army boys to attend.
http://theonlinecitizen.com/2010/07/...another-farce/
“IF YOU want tickets to catch the Youth Olympic Games, you will have to act fast,” the Straits Times urged on 7 July. “Ticket sales to the first Youth Olympic Games have been brisk, with more than 100,000, or close to 50 per cent of tickets, having sold out,” it reported.
“”More than 100,000 of the 245,000 have been snapped up… These include the 80,000 tickets that were purchased by the Ministry of Education in May,” it said.
Ok. Wait. Hold on.
Is it true that ticket sales have been “brisk”?
Two months earlier, on 26 May, the same Straits Times reported that sales of the 320,000 YOG tickets “have been sluggish”. (Straits Times)
It also reported that since March 31 (when the tickets were first put up for sale), only 20,000 tickets had been sold in April and May.
Apparently, to overcome the slow sales, the Ministry of Education stepped in and cleaned up 80,000 tickets in May. The ministry said “all schools will be allotted tickets.” (Straits Times)
That brings the total number of tickets sold to 100,000, out of the 320,000 tickets available for the games – 20,000 bought by the public and 80,000 bought by MOE.
But hold on.
The Straits Times in May said there were 320,000 tickets put up for sale.
However, in July, the same Straits Times reported the number of tickets to be 245,000 instead.
What happened to 75,000 of the 320,000 tickets?
At the moment, no one seems to know.
It is indeed telling that almost half of the tickets sold so far have to be bought by the MOE.
Will students be made to pay for the tickets?
The answer seems to be yes – according to the Straits Times.
‘Sixty per cent of ticket costs will be borne by MOE while the remainder will be paid by the schools. It is, however, up to the schools to decide the ultimate cost borne by students,” the Straits Times report says.
And the MOE is not telling how much it paid for the 80,000 tickets.
So, in brief:
The 320,000 YOG tickets mysteriously became 245,000 tickets – leaving 75,000 tickets “missing”.
20,000 tickets were sold in two months.
MOE stepped in and bought 80,000 tickets in May but refuses to disclose how much it paid for them.
Students may have to pay for these tickets. It is up to the school to decide how much students pay for them.
The budget for the YOG has more than tripled from $104 million to $387 million.
And oh, dear Straits Times, the MOE buying up 80,000 of the tickets does not mean sales “have been brisk”. 20,000 tickets – or 6 per cent – bought by the public out of 320,000 (or even 245,000) is very sluggish sale indeed.
One wonders if this whole thing is not becoming another farce.
Whatever it is, it should be of great concern to the organizers (and the Ministry of Community, Youth and Sports) that one month before the games are to begin, tickets sales have been so bad – and that the budget for the games has jumped more than threefold, from $104 million to $387 million!
Methinks Vivian Balakrishnan and Teo Ser Luck have a lot to account for.
———
Here are the news reports:
Tickets selling fast, sales “brisk”.
Donch worry about it la. Since YOG cannot direct 'force' studfents to contribute their time/energy/efforts/money, it went the franking strategy, exactly like 'borrow other's knife to kill someone' (sorri, donch know how to write the chinese phase la) and got MOE to buy the tickets, and then 'sell' it to the students.
Just a matter of cash flow, ie., MOE come out $ first, then 'sell' to student and collect back the amount, maybe more.
All it is, is just go 1 round and come back to hit the parents from behind. Any with a school-going child still thinking of not supporting YOG ?
Just a matter of cash flow, ie., MOE come out $ first, then 'sell' to student and collect back the amount, maybe more.
All it is, is just go 1 round and come back to hit the parents from behind. Any with a school-going child still thinking of not supporting YOG ?
This is what you get when you have bird brains ministers. I guarantee some ex-SAF must be in involved in this.
In the past, SAF always force NSmen to buy donation tickets.
I remember a condemned major who wants to carries his boss' balls. Commit that his department will buy up all the donation tickets and then send email saying everyone must support as it is an order.
I forwarded his email to Head Personnel and demand to know why are we being force to do this. Major lan-lan retracted his orders and became a big embarrassment.
But then he damned dun lan me.. gave me a C grading and block my promotion. Thank God for him cos that made me leave that shit hole and I'm earning 5 times more than my peers who are senior officers now.
All our taxpayers money are spend on useless bum who cannot made a living in the private sector. To make it worst, these people are given cushy job after they "retire". Look at the crap they did to Temasek and NCS.
In the past, SAF always force NSmen to buy donation tickets.
I remember a condemned major who wants to carries his boss' balls. Commit that his department will buy up all the donation tickets and then send email saying everyone must support as it is an order.
I forwarded his email to Head Personnel and demand to know why are we being force to do this. Major lan-lan retracted his orders and became a big embarrassment.
But then he damned dun lan me.. gave me a C grading and block my promotion. Thank God for him cos that made me leave that shit hole and I'm earning 5 times more than my peers who are senior officers now.
All our taxpayers money are spend on useless bum who cannot made a living in the private sector. To make it worst, these people are given cushy job after they "retire". Look at the crap they did to Temasek and NCS.
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