Re: Saw Phaik Hwa's qoutable quotes raise netizens' blood pressure
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking...ry_545212.html
Highest paid SMRT CEO
MS SAW Phaik Hwa, 55, was paid
$1.67 million last year, including stock options, making her the highest-grossing chief executive that public transport operator SMRT Corp has ever employed.
Her deputy, Mr Yeo Meng Hin, 46, whose responsibilities include safety, emergency planning and security, took home $970,272 - making him the second best paid executive onboard.
The remuneration details were listed in SMRT Corp's latest annual report. Compared to the year before, Ms Saw's package was 7.1 per cent higher while Mr Yeo's grew by 13.3 per cent. Their compensation includes bonuses, benefits and company shares.
Remuneration for the company's top five executives, excluding Ms Saw's, totalled $3.2 million - 17.2 per cent higher than the previous year's. SMRT's total wage bill grew by 6.3 per cent to $294.8 million over the same period.
While previous annual reports did not provide detailed breakdowns of top-level remuneration, Ms Saw's predecessors - Mr Boey Tak Hap and Mr Kwek Siew Jin - were paid around $570,000 before share options.
Before share options, Ms Saw's package last year came up to $1.43 million. This compares favourably with what her counterpart at transport giant ComfortDelGro Corp got. Its chief executive, Mr Kua Hong Pak, 66, was paid between $1.75 million and $1.99 million last year, excluding options.
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and that mr yeo was paid 970, 272 to be responsible for safety, emergency planning and security when....
http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_535937.html
Jun 5, 2010
More twists to the MRT tale
By Maria Almenoar, Sujin Thomas & Teh Joo Lin
A screen grab of You Yuan's 27 second video of the train in service. As of last night, the video had garnered over 26,000 view on YouTube. -- PHOTO: YOUTUBE
THE tale of the security breach at an MRT depot here took several twists yesterday: Police were told of it only two days after it occurred, and the Swiss national who left his mark on a train might not have been working alone.
In a statement last night, police said the breach took place on the night of May 16 or early the next morning.
It added that police were informed only on May 19, at 7.15pm.
The Straits Times reported yesterday that a YouTube video of the incident was posted online on May 18.
That timeline of events meant the graffiti on the train, and the breach, went unnoticed for close to 48 hours.
In its statement yesterday, police said the 33-year-old Swiss national who was arrested on May 25 will be hauled to court today to face charges of vandalism and trespass.
It did not say why there was a time lapse between the breach and the police report.
http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20110819-295140.html
my paper
Friday, Aug 19, 2011
By Joy Fang
GRAFFITI found on a north-bound MRT train on Wednesday morning is believed to have read: “Jet Setter’s”.
my paper understands that the words were spray-painted in blue on one side of a train carriage . It is said to have measured between 8m and 9m in length and 1m in height.
The train, which had been parked at SMRT’s Bishan depot, had already been plying its route when a train officer discovered the graffiti.
When my paper was at the 6km perimeter of the depot yesterday, 18 segments of brightgreen wire fencing were spotted, interspersed with worn-out segments, at a 500m stretch along the canal off Bishan Road.
It is believed that the depot was breached there, a few metres away from where the trains were parked.
At least 25 closed-circuit TV (CCTV) cameras were spotted on the top or sides of the depot buildings, but only about three were visible within the parking bays.
Investigations are ongoing and no one has been arrested yet. It is not known if the tresspass and vandalism was done by one or more individuals. SMRT said in a statement yesterday that it has intensified patrols at all its depots. SMRT has four depots – in Bishan, Changi, Ulu Pandan and Kim Chuan.
The spokesman added: “We have instructed our premises managers to increase their spot checks at the premises, and ensure all security personnel are performing their duties properly.”
Preliminary findings point to the “likelihood of human failure”.
In October last year, the transport operator agreed with and implemented recommendations by the Public Transport Security Committee on a fence-intrusion system for all its train depots.
The system was to be complemented with steel-welded mesh fencing, additional CCTVs and lighting along the perimeter fencing. This is being done to reduce reliance on manned patrols, and to have round-theclock monitoring.
These measures were being implemented progressively, said SMRT, but had yet to be carried out at the Bishan depot. In May last year, two men broke into SMRT’s Changi depot, cutting through the fence and spray-painting graffiti on the side of a parked MRT train.
Swiss national Oliver Fricker was later sentenced to seven months’ jail and three strokes of the cane for trespassing and vandalism, but spent less than five months in prison on account of good behaviour. His alleged Briton accomplice, Dane Alexander Lloyd, is still at large.
For its lapse, SMRT was fined the maximum of $50,000 by the Land Transport Authority. Security experts said that the second incident heightens the need for a complete plan to protect depots from terror threats. Dr Kumar Ramakrishna, head of the Centre of Excellence for National Security at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, said: “If relatively unsophisticated vandals seeking thrills can gain unauthorised access to our trains, trained and determined terrorists with far sinister aims could do so as well.”
Calling the latest incident “disappointing”, he added that Singapore remains an “iconic” terrorist target.
Mr Sathyaraj Rengaraju, a training and compliance manager in security firm Pico Guards, said that SMRT needs to ensure that the three crucial layers of security are in place: making physical security barriers such as fences tamper-proof, having more CCTVs and a larger number of alert security officers to increase vigilance.
