"What's wrong with collecting more money?", Lee Kuan Yew
"What's wrong with having discounts for Nassim Jade condos?"
"What's wrong with increasing minister pay?"
To these amoral megalomaniacs, there is no limit.
"What's wrong with collecting more money?", Lee Kuan Yew
No henghua though I know many stayed in that area....got a henghua friend staying in nearby Maude road
"What's wrong with collecting more money?", Lee Kuan Yew
The Sungei Road flea market, which is open daily from 1pm to 7pm, draws tourists, foreign workers and locals. At least 70 per cent of the peddlers are between 60 and 80 years old. -- PHOTO: LIM YAOHUI FOR THE STRAITS TIMES
<cite>Quote:</cite>By Melody Zaccheus
Around eight decades of history seem set to come to an end for Sungei Road flea market.
As it has to make way for the Sungei Road MRT station, due to open in 2017, an association representing its 200 traders had suggested relocating to one of four alternative sites nearby.
However, the National Environment Agency (NEA) has rejected this - and not given it any explanation. When asked, NEA referred The Straits Times to the Urban Redevelopment Authority, which said the four sites have been zoned for parks and residential use under Master Plan 2014. They are next to Rochor River, at Kampong Bugis along Kallang River, behind Sim Lim Tower and a roadside near Jalan Kubor Malay cemetery.
The president of the Association for the Recycling of Second Hand Goods, Mr Koh Ah Koon, 73, received a letter from the NEA informing him of the decision last week. He passed on the bad news to members at a meeting on Monday. "Shutting down the market will mean taking away a source of income for many elderly folk here," he said. "Most of us have little education or are illiterate."
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The NEA is making a terrible mistake in not consulting with the NHB to preserve or relocate this cultural icon of ours.
it would be easy to locate the market within one of the parks that have been planned for under the master plan. but no one in the NEA is willing to stick their neck out to save the market.
what a pity.
if only Ngiam had the balls to ask him, "How much is enough?"
Strong recommendation. Was $1 per bowl when i was young.
http://www.misstamchiak.com/sungei-road-laksa/
MND/LTA has always been high-handed when it comes to resettlement and road planning. Look at the old national Library, what has replaced it now - a useless piece of asphalt that they could have run a detour and saved the mounment.
Now this. Why is it that they cannot even reroute a little and save big time on our history. Fooking pen-pushers hiding and planning in vacuo in their aircon offices to the oblivion of the big picture? In the end, we again moan the loss of our roots and create more artificial erections which are tasteless in architectural value and meaningless to everyone.
Henghua people usually own bicycle shops during the old days or trishaw business, all gathered in Jalan Besar and sometimes even gang clashes with other dialect group. Their Henghua Mee Sua is delicious.
This dialect group is a minority in Sinkieland, not many people know.
Something close to it is Fuzhou people I think. The Fuzhou Poh Hwa Oyster Cake at Sam Leong Road also standard drop.
with the pap, it's all about money and profit. They will sell the land to private developers when the mrt is completed, so as to recoup the cost of building the MRT line and also make a tidy profit from the land sale and future property taxes on whatever the private developer builds on it. To pap, running singapore is like running a company, growing the topline and the bottomline. When they talk about preserving our culture or heritage or about wanting to serve the people is just lip service to win some votes from the guillible.
ahh yes the famous and delicious sungei road laksa located at kelantan lane. always had a bowl after buying cheap bike stuff from lim ah boy motor shop.
Singapore lost its soul a long time ago. The charm and character singapore once had is long gone. Even orchard rd used to have character in places like lucky plaza, Far East (yeah I know it's Scott's rd) but now it is one pristine mall after another selling the same overpriced tat.
all thanks to REITS and high rents. malls should go the way of dinosaurs as people turn to online shopping to avoid the overpriced mall-bought items.
You are blaming this issue on any things that appears to your view to be blamed.
Ppl and markets make their choice. Policy makers might influence the choice the mass consumer makes but by and large this is not a one country thing that create the real impact. It is world wide.
These Sungei road losers need to be done with, simply becos they fail to change, improve and adapt to where change is heading.
For the entire place to improve and get better, these elements MUST be remove. Next would be Geyland.
you are burying your head in the sand and ignoring facts.
these traders are trying to make an independent living for themselves without relying on government handouts.
the high-handedness of the PAP is the only element that MUST be removed.