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Serious Sinkie Newborns Are Now Reminded of NS! Parents Cannot Teh Gong Anymore!

JohnTan

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It may be another 18 years before their sons become soldiers, but parents of newborn boys are getting an early reminder from the Government about the importance of national service.

Along with the baby's birth certificate when they register the birth, parents now receive a letter from the Ministry of Defence (Mindef).

The letter touches on NS policies, such as applying for exit permits and deferment for full-time studies. It also states that the Government may withhold an individual's renunciation of citizenship if his NS liabilities are not fulfilled.


The Sunday Times understands that Mindef started giving out the letters early this year.


Mindef said that the new initiative was "implemented in response to feedback from some parents that enlistment information would be useful to them when their children were very young".

It is an "additional touch point" to parents, on top of the letters which the ministry sends out when their sons turn 13 and 16 ½.


The first, at age 13, is to inform the family that an exit permit is required if their son travels overseas for three months or more, and the second, to register for NS.

"As part of Mindef's ongoing engagement efforts to enhance awareness and understanding of NS commitments, we reach out to parents and pre-enlistees at various touch points to provide information on NS policies," a spokesman said.

Not all parents think that the letter at birth is necessary. Operations manager J.Y. Lim, 30, whose son was born last month, said: "It's kind of too early to inform us about NS, since the baby is just born, but I believe Mindef has its reasons."

Teacher Lim Lee Choon, 32, who also had a baby boy last month, felt the letter was informative. While she knew that every male Singaporean would need to serve NS, she "never knew that implications come on from as early as when they are 13", until she read the letter.

IT manager Andy Lee, 43, who has three sons aged 10, 12 and 14, said: "Some parents may find it a turn-off to be informed of their son's NS liability at such a young age.

"Still, I think there's no harm done. Some parents may have been thinking of relocating overseas with their children at an early age to help them avoid NS."

The issue of NS evasion was cast in the spotlight last month, when the High Court imposed harsher sentences for three NS defaulters, allowing the prosecution's appeal for a tougher punishment.

Among them was Ang Lee Thye, 43, who evaded NS for 231/2 years, and was jailed for two years and nine months - up from the initial sentence of two years.

Lawyer Laurence Goh, who has acted for NS defaulters, said the letter can help clear misconceptions.

"There are many who moved overseas at a young age and lived there for a long time. Maybe they got married with children and hold another country's citizenship," he said.

"But as long as they have not fulfilled their NS obligations, they can't renounce the Singapore citizenship." With the letter, parents cannot claim ignorance as an excuse, he added.

"They have to be fair to their children to ensure that they do not get into unnecessary trouble with the law," said Mr Goh.

MP Cedric Foo, a member of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Defence, said: "I see the letter at birth as a good reminder to parents about their sons' NS duties and key milestone dates...

"More information cannot be bad. Is it premature? I think not. It actually obviates the need for parents to do research on NS."

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/congrats-on-your-baby-boy-and-heres-a-letter-on-his-ns-duty
 
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songsongjurong

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CPF board should include Medisavd contribution obligation as well.

Letter should sign off with $$$ penalty imposed on parents,estate,next of kin should boy abscond from NS duties, throw in jailtime and caning.

Letters availablr in chinese,hindi,tagalog,cantonese,bahasa, whatever shit that is out there for new citizens?
 

The_Hypocrite

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This just shows the pettiness and obsession with NS an obsolete military doctrine that has captured the state by ensuring the size of the armed forces remain so that heaps of scholars will have jobs and its nothing but a rice bowl for the civil serpents. Look at Taiwan, a country that has more to fear of an invasion than singkieland which has reduce NS terms etc and cut its military budget,,,,If National defence is soo important,,why open the doors to the huge foreign influx? These foreigners could easily sabotage singkieland from within be it with or without NS...This NS thing is worse than the US military industrial complex in terms of its rent seeking behaviour.
 

kryonlight

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all sinkie male infants should have the letter inscribed on their backs when they are born.

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All sinkie male infants should have some chips implanted and wired to their brains so that they can be programmed to automatically report for NS enlistments, IPPT tests and remedial trainings, ICTs and mob manning. Those who are hiding overseas will automatically swim across the oceans to come back to Singapore.
 

Papsmearer

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This just shows the pettiness and obsession with NS an obsolete military doctrine that has captured the state by ensuring the size of the armed forces remain so that heaps of scholars will have jobs and its nothing but a rice bowl for the civil serpents. Look at Taiwan, a country that has more to fear of an invasion than singkieland which has reduce NS terms etc and cut its military budget,,,,If National defence is soo important,,why open the doors to the huge foreign influx? These foreigners could easily sabotage singkieland from within be it with or without NS...This NS thing is worse than the US military industrial complex in terms of its rent seeking behaviour.

I am waiting long long for the cheebye fake oppo WP to ask the same question.
 

Papsmearer

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PAP still doesnt know why Singaporeans:
1. choose not to have babies, especially boys
2. want to migrate

PAP is dumb and daft

How many PAP Ministers and elites actually did NS? Not Gay Loong, not TCH, not CCS, Not TCJ, etc. Gay Loong should have led by example.
 

ckmpd

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How many PAP Ministers and elites actually did NS? Not Gay Loong, not TCH, not CCS, Not TCJ, etc. Gay Loong should have led by example.

Exactly. Because they dont do NS, they dont know why Singaporeans who do NE detest NS.

And because they hv not been through NS, they dont know why parents who have a choice choose not to hv babies. And those who hv children, choose to migrate to take their sons out of NS. Why shd their sons pledge to defend the Constitution with their lives as the PAP has seen it fit to manipulate the Constitution for its political agenda?
 
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