Of Niches and Seng Kang West

[rusty]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

Is it an offense to lie in Singapore?

 

[glockman]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

MP Lam has been made a sacrificial lamb by his bosses. It's really his own fault. When you mix around with vipers, you will eventually get bit.

 

[halsey02]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

Is it an offense to lie in Singapore?

Yes!...if you are the oppositions...you will accused if being a liar, if they can get a child to accuse you...

 

[songsongjurong]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

let the sengkang west resident be reminded again, who did lam par bin defended,where was he seated facing,yes ,you are right,seated facing his adversaries in the saga, sengkang west residents.

who you tink might have footed the taipei expenses? eteernal pure land?what do you think?

 

[xingguy]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

THE authorities had assured him that commercial firms could bid for land marked for religious purposes, said the Member of Parliament at the forefront of the Sengkang columbarium controversy.

That is why he defended the tender in a dialogue with residents earlier this month, said Sengkang West MP Lam Pin Min in an interview with The Straits Times yesterday.

But it was revealed in Parliament on Thursday that, unlike previous bidders, funeral service provider Eternal Pure Land (EPL) did not have any religious links.

"I... asked HDB and URA whether a commercial entity is allowed to participate in a tender process for a place of worship, and I was informed that it had been done before," he said, referring to the Housing Board and the Urban Redevelopment Authority.

Previous tenders by commercial players had been affiliated to a religious organisation but EPL is a pure profit company.

"EPL told us that they were in the process of discussing with some religious organisation to work out some of the temple- related activities," he added.

The Government has since admitted that it was a mistake to award the tender to EPL.

National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said on Thursday that the ministry would stop the commercial columbarium.

The authorities will also review the tender process to plug this loophole where commercial firms muscle into places of worship.

The decision has been cheered by Dr Lam, who is also the Minister of State for Health.

He has been feeling the heat from some residents and netizens since news of the planned columbarium broke a month back. They were upset that a site planned for a Chinese temple would also have a columbarium, especially one operated for commercial interests.

They started an online petition against it, garnering more than 1,000 signatures. It prompted Dr Lam to hold a dialogue on Jan 4.

But at the session, he was perceived to be defending EPL rather than siding with his constituents. Some pointed out that he was sitting at the same table as representatives from Life Corporation - the parent firm of EPL. They were also unhappy that he highlighted the modern look of the temple.

Dr Lam clarified yesterday that he had not been taking sides and he did not understand why the seating arrangements had become an issue. "My purpose there was first to facilitate the dialogue session, to clarify the misinformation of what was posted online, and to allow residents to raise their concerns to me and the relevant agencies," he said.

"Usually for a dialogue session, this is how it's done."

He said he did not scrutinise whether a commercial entity which bid for land for places of worship had to have religious ties.

He was not aware of the rules and was not part of the tender process, he said, adding that the rules had "very fine details".

Asked if it had been a stressful time for him, he replied: "Definitely. No one wants anything to happen in their constituency."

He said the residents were relieved that action had been taken. "I'm just happy that a decision has been made... to not have a commercial columbarium there.

"I'm also just happy that many of the residents who are concerned can have their fears allayed because, at the end of the day, this is a positive outcome for many of the residents."

Really, No one wants anything to happen in their constituency.

Last I known Lam Pin Min was defending the building of the columbarium.

It was Worker's Party Lee Li Lian who raise this in parliament.



To the residents of Sengkang West, it should be clear by now in whose interest did Lam Pin Min served.

 

[3_M]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

The word PTE LTD on Eternal Pure Land PTE LTD means this company is a commercial entity . Why should the authority assume a PTE LTD got anything to do with religious organization? Why don't KBW comes clean instead of telling fairy tale. There is no reason for HDB and URA not to be awared of it.

 

[virus]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

The word PTE LTD on Eternal Pure Land PTE LTD means this company is a commercial entity . Why should the authority assume a PTE LTD got anything to do with religious organization? Why don't KBW comes clean instead of telling fairy tale. There is no reason for HDB and URA not to be awared of it.

no. MUIS also hv pte ltd called warees investment at beach road.

kong hee also made up of his church to harvest pple's wealth.

 

[xingguy]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

Really, No one wants anything to happen in their constituency.

Last I known Lam Pin Min was defending the building of the columbarium.

It was Worker's Party Lee Li Lian who raise this in parliament.



To the residents of Sengkang West, it should be clear by now in whose interest did Lam Pin Min served.

 

[Confuseous]

Re: $8 Cow continues to speak with forked tongue in parliament

Summary - it's not the govt's fault. The other party lied, misled us. Some junior officer made an ass of you and me. The process has not been reviewed for 25 years, let's take a look at it, the way we treated the Brompton bicycle review.

 

[Confuseous]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

There you go - willing to bet my last dollar that at best, they are not telling the whole truth.
Lying comes naturally to these guys dressed in white - glib tongues, lying without blinking an eyelid.
$8 Khaw turned around after the last elections and implemented the means testing for patients almost immediately,
when during the campaign he gave his undertaking that it will not be the case. He now needs an undertaker for
his political career.

 

[Confuseous]

The MIW cast fooled by LIFE in Khaw's Butterfly Lovers

So many ministers of state and “talents” but all were “fooled” by Life Corp?

Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing the cast of “The Butterfly Lovers – Singapore Style”, as narrated by Khaw Boon Wan:

1. Khaw Boon Wan, Minister for National Development
2. Unidentified man/woman

And supporting cast (from left to right):

1. Desmond Lee, Minister of State, MND
2. Dr Mohamad Maliki, Minister of State, MND
3. Ng Lang, URA CEO
4. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister
5. Dr Cheong Koon Hean, HDB CEO
6. Lee Yi Shyan, Senior Minister of State, MND
7. Lam Pin Min, MP Sengkang West SMC

Print your own poster from here:

http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/01/31/alamak-we-have-all-been-tricked/

 

[Confuseous]

Reports show LIFE was in fact a dying Cordlife business

http://singaporedesk.blogspot.sg/2015/01/life-and-death-links.html

The chart above shows that Life Corporation Ltd's (LCL) original business line of cord blood storage wasn't doing too well. Lots more can be gleaned from its 2014 Annual Report filed with the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

Armed with A$5.5 million from the June 2013 sale of its cord blood and cord tissue banking businesses and assets in India, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Indonesia to Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) listed Cordlife Group Limited, LCL quickly bought up Singapore Funeral Services (known as SFS Care Pte Ltd since 2012) in September 2013. The chronology that led to the formation of Eternal Pure Land Pte Ltd (EPL) is spelt out in the annual report:
1 Dec 2013, SFS acquired;
8 Jun 2014, tender submitted;
17 Jul 2014, tender awarded;
22 Jul 2014, bonds signed with "Golden Meditech" and "Northeast" for S$3 million each, funds which may come in handy for the two installments due on 13 August and 14 October 2014.

The most interesting date is 12 June 2014, day when EPL was set up to bid for the land parcel at Sengkang, a newborn with no track record, and only the operating experience of the Singapore entity, Singapore Funeral Services.

LCL's consolidated revenue for year ended 30 Jun 2014 was only A$1,907,000, of which A$1,905,000 was contributed by SFS Care Pte Ltd. Net loss for LCL was A$2,637,000, an increase of 61% compared to the loss of A$1,640,00 for year ended 30 Jun 2013.

You have to wonder what were on the minds of the civil servants when they evaluated the bidders. For all we know, some name dropper may have casually made it be known that Goh Chok Tong's son is on the board of Cordlife. Dr Goh Jin Hian was appointed as a Director of the Company in July 2011. It is ironical that the science of cord blood banking, preservation of cord blood to help nurture life in the future, is now linked to the preservation of ashes, after science has given up on saving life.

There is more to the eye at Sengkang, it's not just "commercial" and "religious" issues at stake. It's so serious, LCL has called for a trading halt after Khaw Boon Wan told the story of deception by Butterfly Lover Zhu Yingtai. As usual, to find the answer to the quagmire, one has to follow the money.

 

[Tuayapeh]

Re: The MIW cast fooled by LIFE in Khaw's Butterfly Lovers

So many ministers of state and “talents” but all were “fooled” by Life Corp?

Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing the cast of “The Butterfly Lovers – Singapore Style”, as narrated by Khaw Boon Wan:

1. Khaw Boon Wan, Minister for National Development
2. Unidentified man/woman

And supporting cast (from left to right):

1. Desmond Lee, Minister of State, MND
2. Dr Mohamad Maliki, Minister of State, MND
3. Ng Lang, URA CEO
4. Lee Hsien Loong, Prime Minister
5. Dr Cheong Koon Hean, HDB CEO
6. Lee Yi Shyan, Senior Minister of State, MND
7. Lam Pin Min, MP Sengkang West SMC

Print your own poster from here:

http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/01/31/alamak-we-have-all-been-tricked/

are you sure that these overpaid bastards are fooled??

or they are saying that they are fooled so that if anybody coming knocking on their door for investigations they can literally "tee going" and say ....but I stupidly believe them or...



lan jiao understand...


these fuckers are clearly helping their cronies to rape sinks with a commercial columbarium../.... how much space does a fucking niche occupy?? lets just say they build a col,umbarium that houses 200,000 and sell each niche for $3,000.

how much is money is that har??>????




Tis is yet another fine example of PAP ala AIM-gate crony profiteering corruption bullshit!!!!

 

[laksaboy]

Re: Reports show LIFE was in fact a dying Cordlife business

60 years of deceit and corruption. That's what happened.

They don't even try to hide anymore. At least back in the day, they did their best to cover the tracks of the Nassim Jade condo special discounts.

 

[virus]

Re: Reports show LIFE was in fact a dying Cordlife business

this is just the start of in fighting to get rid of competition.

let the m&d slinging continue and bring the popcorn.

 

[songsongjurong]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

"THE authorities had assured him that commercial firms could bid for land marked for religious purposes, said the Member of Parliament at the forefront of the Sengkang columbarium controversy."

we need names, which authority,whose signatory on the final approval document.

sinkie need to prosecute all those involved in this scheme to hoodwink sengakang west residents, who been take on a ride,nearly fallen,swindled into the deception.

sinkies need to comb and investigate as thoroughly as how NEA in cahoots minister and PAP advisors,attempted to conjure up capital punishmrnt on AHPETC over a frivilous CNY night market license,all for sake of the residents and business owners.

sengkang residents, do not fall for apologies crap,your VOTE is all that matters.

 

[xingguy]

Re: Reports show LIFE was in fact a dying Cordlife business

http://singaporedesk.blogspot.sg/2015/01/life-and-death-links.html

The chart above shows that Life Corporation Ltd's (LCL) original business line of cord blood storage wasn't doing too well. Lots more can be gleaned from its 2014 Annual Report filed with the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX).

Armed with A$5.5 million from the June 2013 sale of its cord blood and cord tissue banking businesses and assets in India, the Philippines, Hong Kong and Indonesia to Singapore Stock Exchange (SGX) listed Cordlife Group Limited, LCL quickly bought up Singapore Funeral Services (known as SFS Care Pte Ltd since 2012) in September 2013. The chronology that led to the formation of Eternal Pure Land Pte Ltd (EPL) is spelt out in the annual report:
1 Dec 2013, SFS acquired;
8 Jun 2014, tender submitted;
17 Jul 2014, tender awarded;
22 Jul 2014, bonds signed with "Golden Meditech" and "Northeast" for S$3 million each, funds which may come in handy for the two installments due on 13 August and 14 October 2014.

The most interesting date is 12 June 2014, day when EPL was set up to bid for the land parcel at Sengkang, a newborn with no track record, and only the operating experience of the Singapore entity, Singapore Funeral Services.

LCL's consolidated revenue for year ended 30 Jun 2014 was only A$1,907,000, of which A$1,905,000 was contributed by SFS Care Pte Ltd. Net loss for LCL was A$2,637,000, an increase of 61% compared to the loss of A$1,640,00 for year ended 30 Jun 2013.

You have to wonder what were on the minds of the civil servants when they evaluated the bidders. For all we know, some name dropper may have casually made it be known that Goh Chok Tong's son is on the board of Cordlife. Dr Goh Jin Hian was appointed as a Director of the Company in July 2011. It is ironical that the science of cord blood banking, preservation of cord blood to help nurture life in the future, is now linked to the preservation of ashes, after science has given up on saving life.

There is more to the eye at Sengkang, it's not just "commercial" and "religious" issues at stake. It's so serious, LCL has called for a trading halt after Khaw Boon Wan told the story of deception by Butterfly Lover Zhu Yingtai. As usual, to find the answer to the quagmire, one has to follow the money.

Let's see who is in Cordlife Group Ltd, the company that bought Life Corporation Ltd.

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Cannot be certain if this is KFC's son.
Maybe you guys can help :o

No wonder the $2 company got the tender! No cronyism? No Meleetocracy? *PUI*

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goh_Chok_Tong

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Goh is married to Tan Choo Leng and they have a son and a daughter, who are twins. Their son, Goh Jin Hian, is a medical doctor and their daughter, Goh Jin Theng, is in London with her English husband, Lee Craven.

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[Leckmichamarsch]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

I smell a big rat MBT who was former minister sitting on top of HDB and knows the nooks n corners.......... he has australian connections and his son is known to wheel and deal.......... the talk in town esp when his father was minister, if you got big project rope in and he will get all the paperwork done for half ownership.
So this commercial columbarium has the stench of MBT or his son or BOTH.......... let the truth emerge

 

[songsongjurong]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

the lexus car driver hitting tree branch (foreign worker) set the precedence, if you are well connected, the law,ministers, MP are your allies,you can get away with anything ,everything and no harm shall befall offender.

 

[Confuseous]

Re: MP Lam Par: URA and HDB provided me with false information!

What will happen to the tender? Three possible scenarios

AFTER National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan said on Thursday that there will not be a commercial columbarium at a site reserved for a Chinese temple in Sengkang, it is unclear what will happen to the tender.

Lawyers and property consultants say there are three scenarios for the company, Eternal Pure Land (EPL), which is owned by Australian-listed Life Corporation.

SCENARIO ONE: JOINT VENTURE WITH RELIGIOUS GROUP

THE Government can choose to honour the tender agreement with EPL, but under the provision that it is in a joint venture with a religious group that will run the temple.

This is likely to be the best outcome for both the company and groups which need a space for a temple, says property analyst Nicholas Mak.

In a joint venture, the company and the religious group would own the land together. This would be different from the current situation, where EPL fully owns the land that was awarded to it.

SCENARIO TWO: GIVE UP

EPL can choose to withdraw from the tender agreement. Normally, this could be seen as a breach of contract but the Government may give the company a free pass on this, says Mr Mak.

Since the company has already taken a loan of $15 million for the development of the site, it may have to pay a penalty should it choose to exit early.

SCENARIO THREE: GOVERNMENT VOIDS THE TENDER

IF THE Government voids the tender agreement and calls for re-tender, the repercussions could be wide, warn lawyers and property consultants.

Depending on the conditions of the tender, EPL could sue the Government for a breach of contract.

It would also damage the credibility of the authorities, who could be seen as going back on their word.

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As Tan Cheng Bock says in his FB, he is waiting to see how they are going to u-bend the U-Turn and straighten things out.
Lies, glorious lies from the MIWs.