Where got such thing during the kampong days ?
When space gets smaller and smaller , this will happen naturally.
Just take a look at 3-room old flats, when your neighbor smokes, your small pigeon hole will smell all over.
When your neighbor cat pees, it stinks the whole floor !
You know, HDB town councils build urns and tanks for people to burn incense, when these people burn, the block is choked with soots. Of course people will get angry.
This kind of problem is PAP at the root.
Please dont use racial issues to win votes, it is not gentlemen to do so.
This is a HDB planning problem, please resolve it in good time.
And stop build HDB houses like beehives......next time antholes soon!
A MISUNDERSTANDING over the burning of incense at a grass patch in front of a Housing Board flat led to a scuffle between a Chinese family and their Malay neighbour.
The police were called in to break up the fight. The estate's MP, grassroots leaders and members of the Inter-Racial Confidence Circle (IRCC) also took turns to visit and talk to the families.
In the end, realising it was a misunderstanding, both sides apologised to each other and the matter was settled amicably.
Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng related this at the annual Bishan East National Day dinner on Saturday. His point was to show how racial and religious differences, when allowed to simmer, may turn into fractures that require just 'a spark to ignite the fire'.
He said one of the threats to the nation's stability is racial, religious and social disharmony, and reminded Singaporeans to zealously guard against it.
Three recent incidents outside Singapore clearly showed why, he said. The first was the inter-ethnic violence between the Uighurs and the Han Chinese in Xinjiang last month. It started as a factory brawl in Guangdong and escalated into violent demonstrations which led to thousands injured or killed.
The second incident was a shooting at a Sikh temple in Vienna, Austria, in May, where a Sikh preacher was shot dead and several worshippers injured by reportedly fundamentalist Sikhs belonging to a higher caste and another temple.
The third incident took place in May and June. It involved a series of racially motivated attacks against Indian students in Australia. Other Indian students later held protest rallies in Melbourne and Sydney.
Mr Wong said the incidents are a grim reminder that Singaporeans cannot take racial and religious harmony for granted.
He noted that more Singaporeans are turning to religion. He stressed that there is nothing wrong with being religious but said Singaporeans must be mindful of its impact 'on the people around us in our multiracial and multi-religious society'.
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When space gets smaller and smaller , this will happen naturally.
Just take a look at 3-room old flats, when your neighbor smokes, your small pigeon hole will smell all over.
When your neighbor cat pees, it stinks the whole floor !
You know, HDB town councils build urns and tanks for people to burn incense, when these people burn, the block is choked with soots. Of course people will get angry.
This kind of problem is PAP at the root.
Please dont use racial issues to win votes, it is not gentlemen to do so.
This is a HDB planning problem, please resolve it in good time.
And stop build HDB houses like beehives......next time antholes soon!
A MISUNDERSTANDING over the burning of incense at a grass patch in front of a Housing Board flat led to a scuffle between a Chinese family and their Malay neighbour.
The police were called in to break up the fight. The estate's MP, grassroots leaders and members of the Inter-Racial Confidence Circle (IRCC) also took turns to visit and talk to the families.
In the end, realising it was a misunderstanding, both sides apologised to each other and the matter was settled amicably.
Deputy Prime Minister Wong Kan Seng related this at the annual Bishan East National Day dinner on Saturday. His point was to show how racial and religious differences, when allowed to simmer, may turn into fractures that require just 'a spark to ignite the fire'.
He said one of the threats to the nation's stability is racial, religious and social disharmony, and reminded Singaporeans to zealously guard against it.
Three recent incidents outside Singapore clearly showed why, he said. The first was the inter-ethnic violence between the Uighurs and the Han Chinese in Xinjiang last month. It started as a factory brawl in Guangdong and escalated into violent demonstrations which led to thousands injured or killed.
The second incident was a shooting at a Sikh temple in Vienna, Austria, in May, where a Sikh preacher was shot dead and several worshippers injured by reportedly fundamentalist Sikhs belonging to a higher caste and another temple.
The third incident took place in May and June. It involved a series of racially motivated attacks against Indian students in Australia. Other Indian students later held protest rallies in Melbourne and Sydney.
Mr Wong said the incidents are a grim reminder that Singaporeans cannot take racial and religious harmony for granted.
He noted that more Singaporeans are turning to religion. He stressed that there is nothing wrong with being religious but said Singaporeans must be mindful of its impact 'on the people around us in our multiracial and multi-religious society'.
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