From ‘Solve quandary by having both names for museum’, 16 Aug 2011, ST Forum and ‘Don’t sever museum’s historic link’, 12 Aug 2011, ST Forum (Ong Sheue Ling): IN THE near future, Singapore will have a new natural history museum. However, I am saddened to learn that the new museum will be named Lee Kong [...]
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From ‘Unfair’, 16 June 2011, ST Forum, ‘Thai teen’s family sues SMRT for $3.4m’, article by Poon Chian Hui in ST, 18 June 2011. MR DAVID CHOO: ‘The accident in which Thai teenager Peneakchanasak Nitcharee lost both her legs was tragic. What is equally tragic is SMRT’s meagre offer of $5,000 in compensation when this [...]
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From ‘回应设专属户头收取捐款 佘雪玲：我依法处理捐款’, 22 May 2011, article in omy.sg (LWZB) 全国大选已经尘埃落定，深受网民热捧，名气爆红的佘雪玲如今被人质疑她在网上呼吁支持者捐钱给她协助支付竞选费用，但使用的账号却是她名下的私人户头，似有不妥之处。 马林百列的林姓居民（29岁）告诉《新报》他不介意捐款作为佘雪玲的竞选经费，但捐款应该以国民团结党的名义来进行会比较透明。 佘雪玲在面簿上回复说，她设立专属银行户头来收取竞选捐款，是为了确保捐款来源没问题。 Translation: Questions have been raised by the public about why Nicole’s request for donations to defray NSP campaigning costs include directions to make payment into an account under her own name instead of NSP. It’s reasonable to be suspicious of any form of [...]
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From ‘Name change sends wrong message’, 2 April 2011, article by Salma Khalik, ST Former Member of Parliament Tan Cheng Bock has stepped down from the board of the upcoming hospital in Jurong because he disagrees with its new name: Ng Teng Fong Hospital. Dr Tan said that…this was a ‘moral issue’ as it looked [...]
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From ‘Payback time’, 19 March 2011, My Point, ST Forum (MS JACKIE LAU): ‘Singapore’s economy has benefited much from many Japanese companies’ millions of dollars in investment here. They have been providing jobs for many Singaporeans. Now Japan needs all the help it can get – it is payback time. Surely, our Government can afford [...]
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From ‘No charity from stores’, 18 March 2011, Voices, Today (Aleteia Gray): WE HELD a fund-raising event called Japan Day at my children’s school yesterday. I had offered to help organise a stall and thought I would ask for some donations in kind from businesses in our area, to be sold at the fund-raiser. …To [...]
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From ‘What’s in a public name? A lot’, 10 March 2011, ST Forum (Andy Lim): NAMING a public institution after an individual is one of the highest tributes a nation can offer. So, it seems inappropriate for a public-funded hospital to be named after its largest donor (‘Family of Ng Teng Fong gives $125m to [...]
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From ‘Miss World CEO slams S’pore pageant standards’, 28 Jan 2011, article by Angela Lim in Fit to Post, Yahoo News …(Ms Julia Morley, British chairperson and CEO of Miss World Limited): “I was shocked to hear that the representation of the Miss World brand has been diluted to such a degree here that I [...]
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From ‘Plus and minus’, 8 Jan 2011, Mailbag Life! (Marietta Koh Ai-Meng): I refer to the article…which featured 10 plus-sized women who posed nude for a calendar to raise funds for a cancer charity. My apologies for being a wet blanket towards this otherwise worthy initiative, but being photographed starkers does not an empowered women [...]
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From ‘Why is giving so hard?’article by Lee Wei Ling, 18 July 2010 Sunday Times …Why must Mr Franz (European of the Year who cycled 130km and walked 50km a day to raise funds to fight HIV/AIDs) torture himself physically in order to raise funds for charity? Can’t the organisations and individuals who donate money [...]
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