Published: 4:45 PM, October 9, 2016
SINGAPORE — Following the back-and-forth between Singapore and Chinese state-owned newspaper Global Times over the South China Sea issue,
some Singapore businessmen with interests in China are being questioned by their Chinese counterparts, on where they stand on the matter.
Singapore companies TODAY spoke to are concerned that this, along with the increasingly shrill comments by Chinese netizens in response to
the newspaper’s provocative articles, would eventually affect their businesses.
Restaurant chain Tung Lok Group has operations in Beijing and Shanghai. Its executive chairman Andrew Tjioe noted the nationalistic fervour in
a country “where everything seems to be about politics”.
“I’m hoping, though, that consumers in China are mature enough to know how to separate politics and business,” he said.
Agreeing, Mr Ho Meng Kit, chief executive officer of Singapore Business Federation, added: “If this drags on, and there’s widespread anger or hostility
towards Singapore products, we’ll be concerned. The Chinese are very nationalistic. I think it’s important that Singapore’s side of the story gets heard in
China as the Global Times is not balanced. We hope that the Chinese citizens get a balanced view of the situation.”
China would go “extinct” if she helped those who are trying to cause harm to her sovereignty and those who are against her interest
and anyone who have intentions to harm China's sovereignty and interest are considered China's enemy.
In remarks reminiscent of those he has made in the past, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the Government would go “extinct” if it helped those who voted against it “first”.
"If we take the view that if you voted against me, I should help you first (as) that shows my largeness of spirit, then I think you will go extinct as a government,” Mr Lee said.
http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/07/03/govt-will-go-extinct-if-it-helped-non-supporters-first-pm-lee/
A National Solidarity Party (NSP) supporter by the name of Geraldine Soh Shin Lin was sacked from her job at Jurong Town Council without any valid reasons given.
According to Ms Soh’s boyfriend Joel Kong who alerted us to the case on our Facebook, Ms Soh has been working at Jurong Town Council for three years without any incidents or warnings to note.
https://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.fr/2011/05/jurong-town-council-employee-sacked.html
The PA is non-partisan? Serious?
She said: “An unhealthy culture seems to have developed within some quarters of the PA, who see its role to include advancing the ruling party politically, and undermining the work of opposition MPs. PA activists being mobilised to campaign for PAP candidates at elections is just one aspect. As Opposition MPs, when we try to advance our residents’ welfare through infrastructure projects, we learn that the government agencies like MND and HDB will only recognise PA organisations such as CCCs and RCs as ‘the proper channels’.” (CCCs stands for Citizens’ Consultative Committees; RC, Residents’ Committees.)
http://themiddleground.sg/tag/sylvia-lim/
WP’s Sylvia Lim asks if People’s Association has drifted from mandate
She pointed to the mobilisation of PA activists to campaign for the ruling People’s Action Party’s candidates during elections as “just one aspect”.
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/wps-sylvia-lim-asks-if-peoples-association-has-drifted-mandate
SINGAPORE — Following the back-and-forth between Singapore and Chinese state-owned newspaper Global Times over the South China Sea issue,
some Singapore businessmen with interests in China are being questioned by their Chinese counterparts, on where they stand on the matter.
Singapore companies TODAY spoke to are concerned that this, along with the increasingly shrill comments by Chinese netizens in response to
the newspaper’s provocative articles, would eventually affect their businesses.
Restaurant chain Tung Lok Group has operations in Beijing and Shanghai. Its executive chairman Andrew Tjioe noted the nationalistic fervour in
a country “where everything seems to be about politics”.
“I’m hoping, though, that consumers in China are mature enough to know how to separate politics and business,” he said.
Agreeing, Mr Ho Meng Kit, chief executive officer of Singapore Business Federation, added: “If this drags on, and there’s widespread anger or hostility
towards Singapore products, we’ll be concerned. The Chinese are very nationalistic. I think it’s important that Singapore’s side of the story gets heard in
China as the Global Times is not balanced. We hope that the Chinese citizens get a balanced view of the situation.”
China would go “extinct” if she helped those who are trying to cause harm to her sovereignty and those who are against her interest
and anyone who have intentions to harm China's sovereignty and interest are considered China's enemy.
In remarks reminiscent of those he has made in the past, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said the Government would go “extinct” if it helped those who voted against it “first”.
"If we take the view that if you voted against me, I should help you first (as) that shows my largeness of spirit, then I think you will go extinct as a government,” Mr Lee said.
http://www.theonlinecitizen.com/2015/07/03/govt-will-go-extinct-if-it-helped-non-supporters-first-pm-lee/
A National Solidarity Party (NSP) supporter by the name of Geraldine Soh Shin Lin was sacked from her job at Jurong Town Council without any valid reasons given.
According to Ms Soh’s boyfriend Joel Kong who alerted us to the case on our Facebook, Ms Soh has been working at Jurong Town Council for three years without any incidents or warnings to note.
https://mrwangsaysso.blogspot.fr/2011/05/jurong-town-council-employee-sacked.html
The PA is non-partisan? Serious?
She said: “An unhealthy culture seems to have developed within some quarters of the PA, who see its role to include advancing the ruling party politically, and undermining the work of opposition MPs. PA activists being mobilised to campaign for PAP candidates at elections is just one aspect. As Opposition MPs, when we try to advance our residents’ welfare through infrastructure projects, we learn that the government agencies like MND and HDB will only recognise PA organisations such as CCCs and RCs as ‘the proper channels’.” (CCCs stands for Citizens’ Consultative Committees; RC, Residents’ Committees.)
http://themiddleground.sg/tag/sylvia-lim/
WP’s Sylvia Lim asks if People’s Association has drifted from mandate
She pointed to the mobilisation of PA activists to campaign for the ruling People’s Action Party’s candidates during elections as “just one aspect”.
http://www.todayonline.com/singapore/wps-sylvia-lim-asks-if-peoples-association-has-drifted-mandate
