There are more than 30,000 Filipinos in Sinkieland

[Wedge Antilles]

30,000 in S'pore register to vote in upcoming Philippine elections
By Teo Xuanwei | Posted: 11 April 2010 2119 hrs
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SINGAPORE : From Saturday until polling day on May 10, nearly 510,000 registered Filipino absentee voters around the world will be casting their votes in 90 Philippine embassies and consulates for the upcoming Philippine elections.

Some 30,000 have registered to vote in Singapore. Voters turned up at the Philippine Embassy in Nassim Road. 200 voters showed up on the first day and 275 on Sunday.

In the embassy, their hand-marked ballots went into an optical scan machine - used to tally hand-marked ballots speedily. One voter said: "They are very organised and they will show me what has to be done."

Another commented: "They put in more effort just to make sure the election can be carried out here in Singapore. And to make sure that everybody, those eligible to vote here in Singapore, can come over." - CNA/ms

 

[ilovechery]

Pinoys are nothing but a bunch of rowdy motherfuckers like china men!

 

[Cestbon]

30k only mah not a big problem.
PRC more than 500k.
Indian/bangla also mnore than 500k,

 

[Watchman]

Are you kidding there are more than 250,000 pinoys in Singapore !

Your figures are wrong .

Garment use this opportunity to downplay pinoy population .

There is eligibility to vote condition for pinoys too .

 

[myo539]

Most of these 30,000 many are professionals - doctors, IT programmers, nurses, radiographers, vets, shop owners, rich man's daughters and sons finding refuge in Singapore, etc.

The balance of more than 60,000 work as domestic helpers and are usually not given off-day as they have to bring your kids to school, look after Ah Ma and Ah Kong or scrub your toilet and wash your bedsheets.

Filipinos usually provide good service - service that delights you. They have been in convents for more than 500 years and 50 years in holiday - so they are unique blend. The also had a much higher standard of living than Singapore in the 1960s.

Thanks to Lee Kuan Yew and company, the situation has been reversed. Ditto for Cambodia and Sri Lanka. Who doesn't know or appreciate what the gahment has done for you and the country, ought to have his head examined.