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Our government also should imposed a S$2.70 (RM7) levy on each Malaysia-registered car, adding that the amount was affordable to Malaysian (esp. the SPR).

They (Malaysians) will continue coming to S'pore even if the our government starts imposing the levy on them

In the end see who cannot tahan first :biggrin:

LTA already charges S$20 for foreign cars entering Singapore. And this is on top of the toll charges. And Malaysian cars still keep on coming to Sg on weekends to help boost the Sg economy.
 

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LTA already charges S$20 for foreign cars entering Singapore. And this is on top of the toll charges. And Malaysian cars still keep on coming to Sg on weekends to help boost the Sg economy.
You know why??
Cos there's no VEP charge on Saturdays, Sundays and all Singapore Public Holidays.. that's why the Malaysian cars keep coming on weekends & PH lor

VEP fees are charged at SGD20 per day on Monday to Friday (from 2am to 5pm).
There is no VEP charge on Saturdays, Sundays and all Singapore Public Holidays as well as from 5pm to 2am on weekdays.
http://www.newasia-singapore.com/tr...ore/driving_in_from_malaysia_20070609365.html
 
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vincentck

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Correct; because Sg still need the tourist and spenders during the weekends.

Come on, is paying $2.70 per trip going to stop any Sg cars from entering My?
 

ComingToJB

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Correct; because Sg still need the tourist and spenders during the weekends.

Come on, is paying $2.70 per trip going to stop any Sg cars from entering My?

But the problem is.. Once it start.. They will have a chance increase the rate further later
Cos they know many S'porean always "RM.. only"
 

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This bodoh shd be thinking of how to encourage more pple to there to spend instead of discouraging. can collect more from pprty taxes, land sales etc .

I would caution against counting on Malaysian politicians, especially those from BN/UMNO, to refrain from scoring political points especially if it serves their purpose. These politicians are infamous for asking Malaysians who oppose them to balik China or India and even Indonesia.
 
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How to clear a breakdown bike/car on the Second Link?
I fetched a friend last night from the road shoulder on the Second Link. But it wasn't possible to get his bike into my car.
The Singapore ICQ told me you need to hire a Malaysian company to clear a bike or car: does anyone have a company name or tel number who can do this? Thank you!
 

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How to clear a breakdown bike/car on the Second Link?
I fetched a friend last night from the road shoulder on the Second Link. But it wasn't possible to get his bike into my car.
The Singapore ICQ told me you need to hire a Malaysian company to clear a bike or car: does anyone have a company name or tel number who can do this? Thank you!

I think AA in Singapore also covers Malaysia, you can call them to check.
 

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You know why??
Cos there's no VEP charge on Saturdays, Sundays and all Singapore Public Holidays.. that's why the Malaysian cars keep coming on weekends & PH lor

VEP fees are charged at SGD20 per day on Monday to Friday (from 2am to 5pm).
There is no VEP charge on Saturdays, Sundays and all Singapore Public Holidays as well as from 5pm to 2am on weekdays.
http://www.newasia-singapore.com/tr...ore/driving_in_from_malaysia_20070609365.html

Not just weekday evenings, weekends and public holidays, "they can drive into Singapore for 10 days in each calendar year without having to pay VEP fee.". And in Msia very normal for each adult to have a car i.e very common for one family have two or three or even four cars that they can rotate for use to drive in.

So essentially most Msia tourists coming to boost economy should be driving into SG free of paying VEP, only those who drive into SG to work daily need to pay VEP i.e employment pass and work permit holders. And it is not uncommon that they car pool and split the $20 cost among 4 or 5 persons.

For this pool of workers driving into SG to work using Msia cars, the $20 VEP should be increased to be in line with the increase in COE and fair to other Singaporeans and PRs paying COE to drive to work in SG cars.

http://www.lta.gov.sg/content/ltawe...le-entry-permit-vep-fees-and-toll-charge.html
 
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They should have confiscated his vehicle as well. All these fucking drivers think they are always above the law. You can see the same at the viaduct at the end of BKE just before the Singapore customs towards JB. When the jam is long, a few motorists will use the motorcycle lane and try to merge in towards the end of the viaduct. Both Malaysian and Singapore cars behave similarly.

The man should have just surrendered and let the police issue the summon to him. It only RM300 the most for such offence. Singkie Business man should have known when to bring out the "under table " as a weapon. Not very smart i think for this man in this situation.

I have met before and it the same situation. I ask the m&d TP along the bridge to issue a summon to me. This bugger refuse to give me the fine and he prefers me to give him some more money
 

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How to clear a breakdown bike/car on the Second Link?
I fetched a friend last night from the road shoulder on the Second Link. But it wasn't possible to get his bike into my car.
The Singapore ICQ told me you need to hire a Malaysian company to clear a bike or car: does anyone have a company name or tel number who can do this? Thank you!

AAM can help for cars but not bikes or commercial vehicles.
For bikes we'll need to activate a bike recovery service in Malaysia and one in Singapore. Maybe the Singapore ones like Bike Rescue or Bikebulance can tell you how to find a Malaysian one.
 

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Dear Sir Abdul Rahman, you truly deserve my respect. Hats off to you :smile:


Let the earth be your mosque - Abdul Rahman

I had a one-day stopover in Istanbul recently and took the opportunity to visit the famous Hagia Sophia at the Old City, a designated Unesco Heritage Site.
Although I have heard much about the basilica, which used to be a church and a cathedral for 900 years, then converted to a mosque for 500 years, and finally made a museum in 1934, nothing could have prepared me for the visual “shock”.
On the inside of the impressive dome, are the words “Allah” and “Mohammad” in Arabic, and in between is an image of the Virgin Mary carrying baby Jesus.
My immediate reaction as a Malaysian Muslim was, isn’t this Haram, with a big H? But here it was, the layers of its different religious history coexisting, revealed in all its glory.
At one wall, the mihrab or a niche on the wall showing the qiblat is off the building axis, as the church was originally built on an East-West axis before it was converted into a mosque by Sulan Mehmet II in 1453.
The direction of Mecca is more towards the South East and not straight East. And yet this magnificent cathedral/mosque was the house of worship for millions of Muslims of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years, praying towards the Kaabah in the off-qiblat mosque.
It made me think of the recent fracas over the surau in Johor. A few Buddhists meditating and praying in the surau for a few hours, demands the demolition of the place of worship because the surau has been “defiled.” The Johor Islamic Religious Council (MAINJ) advisor Datuk Nooh Gadut had also said the surau should be demolished because it was not built exactly to kiblat.
If it follows that any surau or mosque must be demolished if someone from another religion meditated or prayed in it, or that it is off-kiblat, then the Hagia Sofia should be demolished. Wait, the Holy Masjid Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem, the Baitul Muqadis, Muslims’ holy site, where Jews, Christians and Muslims have worshipped in it for generations should also be demolished.
But that’s not all, we all know our history, that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) invited the Christians of Najran to pray in his mosque in Medina before having a dialogue with them. Did he destroy his own mosque after the “defilement”? The Prophet (pbuh) was a Messenger of God and yet, the most humblest and compassionate of people.
Then, why are some Malaysian Muslims so arrogant and ignorant? It made me embarrassed for my ummah.
More recently, a church in Aberdeen, UK, the St John’s Episcopal Church welcomed its Muslim neighbours to pray five times a day to Allah in the church as the mosque next door is too small. Its priest, Reverand Isaac Poobalan were moved to welcome Muslims to his church as he felt distressed by his neighbours praying out in the cold.
“Their hands and feet were bare and you could see their breath in the freezing cold.
“Jesus taught his disciples to love your neighbour as yourself and this is something I cannot just preach to my congregation, I had to put it into practice," he was quoted by the BBC. This is an example of someone who practise his religion well.
When the surau matter made headlines, the Malaysian Buddhist High Priest immediately made his apology on behalf of the Buddhists who had meditated in the surau.
As a Muslim, I would like to humbly apologise to all Buddhists for our ignorance and arrogance. It is terribly hurtful to say that the surau has to be demolished – for it implies that Buddhist prayers and meditation are so dirty and beyond contempt that the place of worship had to be destroyed.
Obviously, the Buddhists did not do it on purpose to insult Islam. They needed a place, and it was offered to them by the resort owner. They hurt no one. They meditated for peace of mind and their chanting, as told to me by a Buddhist friend, was spreading of compassion and mercy.
How do we get pass this travesty, this violence on harmonious relations as our 56th Merdeka Day dawns on us? It is like a stake in my heart.
I prayed for peace and calm in my heart, and I remember this Hadith. It soothes my heart reflecting on its deeper meaning.
Let the earth be your mosque. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “The (whole) earth has been made a mosque (or a place of prayer) and a means of purification for me, so wherever a man of my ummah may be when the time for prayer comes, let him pray.” (Sahih Bukhari, 335)
A Muslim can pray and has prayed in an off-kiblat mosque that was used by people of other faiths, he can pray under a tree, by the beach, in the house of her friend who is a Hindu, in a plane flying in the vast sky and on a sail boat, in a war zone, and even in a prison. For, praise Allah, the earth has been made a mosque.
This hadith also carries a deep ecological and humanistic meaning, that as you take loving care of your (place of prayer) your mosque, so must you take care of the earth.
Taking care of the earth means taking care of God’s creation – the environment, all the creatures and humans in it. For me, it also includes taking care of the people of different faiths you live with, taking care not to hurt in the name of your religion, and taking care with compassion, mercy and reconciliation. - August 22, 2013.
 
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freedom

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FYI
Channel News Asia: ISKANDAR - "A Livable Metropolis in the Making". Thursday, 29 Aug. 8.30 pm.

More Singaporeans will buy homes, landed and condos in JB and rent out their HDBs to the foreign workers influx coming into Singapore as we move towards 6.9 m in 2030. I believe some of the increased population has to come to JB if not Singapore will not be liveable. As it is, it is already so crowded. Much hinges on the upcoming improved connectivity via RTS and HSR.
 

Frodo

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More Singaporeans will buy homes, landed and condos in JB and rent out their HDBs to the foreign workers influx coming into Singapore as we move towards 6.9 m in 2030. I believe some of the increased population has to come to JB if not Singapore will not be liveable. As it is, it is already so crowded. Much hinges on the upcoming improved connectivity via RTS and HSR.

Will late buyers if new developments into Iskandar be then forced to live further and further away from the two checkpoints? Then maybe resale market will be very hot closer to CIQ or 2nd Link.
 

freedom

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Will late buyers if new developments into Iskandar be then forced to live further and further away from the two checkpoints? Then maybe resale market will be very hot closer to CIQ or 2nd Link.

Good point. Likely so...we r already seeing resale market heating up, aren't we?
 

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Will late buyers if new developments into Iskandar be then forced to live further and further away from the two checkpoints? Then maybe resale market will be very hot closer to CIQ or 2nd Link.

this is without doubt the scenario but the timeline is like 10 years.
 

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Dear Sir Abdul Rahman, you truly deserve my respect. Hats off to you :smile:


Let the earth be your mosque - Abdul Rahman

I had a one-day stopover in Istanbul recently and took the opportunity to visit the famous Hagia Sophia at the Old City, a designated Unesco Heritage Site.
Although I have heard much about the basilica, which used to be a church and a cathedral for 900 years, then converted to a mosque for 500 years, and finally made a museum in 1934, nothing could have prepared me for the visual “shock”.
On the inside of the impressive dome, are the words “Allah” and “Mohammad” in Arabic, and in between is an image of the Virgin Mary carrying baby Jesus.
My immediate reaction as a Malaysian Muslim was, isn’t this Haram, with a big H? But here it was, the layers of its different religious history coexisting, revealed in all its glory.
At one wall, the mihrab or a niche on the wall showing the qiblat is off the building axis, as the church was originally built on an East-West axis before it was converted into a mosque by Sulan Mehmet II in 1453.
The direction of Mecca is more towards the South East and not straight East. And yet this magnificent cathedral/mosque was the house of worship for millions of Muslims of the Ottoman Empire for 500 years, praying towards the Kaabah in the off-qiblat mosque.
It made me think of the recent fracas over the surau in Johor. A few Buddhists meditating and praying in the surau for a few hours, demands the demolition of the place of worship because the surau has been “defiled.” The Johor Islamic Religious Council (MAINJ) advisor Datuk Nooh Gadut had also said the surau should be demolished because it was not built exactly to kiblat.
If it follows that any surau or mosque must be demolished if someone from another religion meditated or prayed in it, or that it is off-kiblat, then the Hagia Sofia should be demolished. Wait, the Holy Masjid Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem, the Baitul Muqadis, Muslims’ holy site, where Jews, Christians and Muslims have worshipped in it for generations should also be demolished.
But that’s not all, we all know our history, that Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) invited the Christians of Najran to pray in his mosque in Medina before having a dialogue with them. Did he destroy his own mosque after the “defilement”? The Prophet (pbuh) was a Messenger of God and yet, the most humblest and compassionate of people.
Then, why are some Malaysian Muslims so arrogant and ignorant? It made me embarrassed for my ummah.
More recently, a church in Aberdeen, UK, the St John’s Episcopal Church welcomed its Muslim neighbours to pray five times a day to Allah in the church as the mosque next door is too small. Its priest, Reverand Isaac Poobalan were moved to welcome Muslims to his church as he felt distressed by his neighbours praying out in the cold.
“Their hands and feet were bare and you could see their breath in the freezing cold.
“Jesus taught his disciples to love your neighbour as yourself and this is something I cannot just preach to my congregation, I had to put it into practice," he was quoted by the BBC. This is an example of someone who practise his religion well.
When the surau matter made headlines, the Malaysian Buddhist High Priest immediately made his apology on behalf of the Buddhists who had meditated in the surau.
As a Muslim, I would like to humbly apologise to all Buddhists for our ignorance and arrogance. It is terribly hurtful to say that the surau has to be demolished – for it implies that Buddhist prayers and meditation are so dirty and beyond contempt that the place of worship had to be destroyed.
Obviously, the Buddhists did not do it on purpose to insult Islam. They needed a place, and it was offered to them by the resort owner. They hurt no one. They meditated for peace of mind and their chanting, as told to me by a Buddhist friend, was spreading of compassion and mercy.
How do we get pass this travesty, this violence on harmonious relations as our 56th Merdeka Day dawns on us? It is like a stake in my heart.
I prayed for peace and calm in my heart, and I remember this Hadith. It soothes my heart reflecting on its deeper meaning.
Let the earth be your mosque. The Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “The (whole) earth has been made a mosque (or a place of prayer) and a means of purification for me, so wherever a man of my ummah may be when the time for prayer comes, let him pray.” (Sahih Bukhari, 335)
A Muslim can pray and has prayed in an off-kiblat mosque that was used by people of other faiths, he can pray under a tree, by the beach, in the house of her friend who is a Hindu, in a plane flying in the vast sky and on a sail boat, in a war zone, and even in a prison. For, praise Allah, the earth has been made a mosque.
This hadith also carries a deep ecological and humanistic meaning, that as you take loving care of your (place of prayer) your mosque, so must you take care of the earth.
Taking care of the earth means taking care of God’s creation – the environment, all the creatures and humans in it. For me, it also includes taking care of the people of different faiths you live with, taking care not to hurt in the name of your religion, and taking care with compassion, mercy and reconciliation. - August 22, 2013.

Nice article. Thanks for posting. Where was it published?
 
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