Singapore's First Olympic Medal In 48 Years
Region: Singapore
Singapore's Olympic medal drought is finally over. The country's women's table tennis team's narrow victory of 3-2 over their South Korean counterparts at Friday's semi-finals garauntees her first Olympic medal in almost half a century. Weightlifter Tan Howe Liang gave the nation its only Olympic medal at the 1960 Rome Olympics - a Silver. Wth a spot at the finals, Singapore will get silver if she loses against Ch... more
Views: 2043ABORT LANDING @ TOKYO
Region: Singapore
Inaugural flight of A-380 Singapore Airlines from Changi Airport, Singapore to Narita airport, Tokyo at 20/05 abort landing. The plane made safe landing at Chubu Centair Airport, Nagoya before continue to Tokyo. The problem was the heavy storm hitting Narita airspace. The pilot decided abort landing and contact alternative airport to make a safe landing. Osaka was the first alternative airport for landing after... more
Views: 2027Filth in a Pristine World: Sex Trade in Singapore Goes Unabated
Region: Singapore
There is irony in Singapore’s strait-laced, strictly controlled society. In a striking contrast to its pristine image of an orderly and lawful cosmopolitan life, Singapore accepts prostitution as a legitimate profession “as long as it happens behind closed doors and between adults” as law enforcers would always say. Government is often quoted as having taken this same pragmatic approach as th... more
Views: 7260Singapore's Response to Obama's Win
Region: Singapore
Singaporeans in general have embraced the prospects of an Obama administration. Economists broadly agree that fears of Obama reversing free trade pacts made with Asian countries are unfounded. The worsening employment condition in America has led some to believe that Obama will pursue protectionist trade measures to prevent cheap foreign imports - which compete with domestic goods- into the country. But althou... more
Views: 1980Sri Lankan Presidential elections – winners and losers - national and international
Region: SingaporeIt is ironic that a lead article in a reputed journal in India blurts out that a Rajapakse win in the elections in sovereign Sri Lanka will be ‘an implicit vote for India’; a win for India. This author canvasses for a Rajapakse win not a Sarath Fonseka win espousing the cause of the South Block, Sri Lankan (SL) genocide regime’s partner. Whether a Rajapakse win is a win for Sri Lanka and/or it... more
Views: 3330Delhi (South Block) uneasy over Fonseka’s disclosures
Region: SingaporeDelhi (South Block) uneasy over Fonseka’s disclosures The candid comments in the Opinion page of the Daily Mirror of 16 December examines the risks involved in the South Block’s antics during the very final phases of the Eelam war. These have unpalatable Sri Lanka war crimes implications for India. The authority that the Fonseka’s revelations lend to the war crimes allegations is sure ... more
Views: 1312End Sri Lanka's genocide behavior to end flow of Asylum seekers
Region: SingaporeA SL apologist labelled asylum seekers in boats off the Canadian and Australian shores as Sri Lanka's unwanted exports. The objective of SL and its apologists is shift the focus of debate internationally away from war crimes and sanctions for SL's genocide to the fate of a few asylum seekers (78 and 208) forgetting that the asylum seekers is the creation of the brutal genocide in SL. SL viewing... more
Views: 3077DELHI’S PATRONAGE ENCOURAGES SRI LANKAN WAR CRIMES TO GO INTERNATIONAL
Region: SingaporeExcerpts of the SBS Lateline 18 October panel discussion reveal a belligerent Sri Lanka (SL) targeting specifically the diaspora, threatening to use the much dreaded weapon in its portfolio namely ‘disappearances’ (kidnapping/rendition). One Prof Rohan Gunaratne strongly advocates its use though the panel pointed out that the act. ’..is.. unlawful and violates international law..’. &... more
Views: 1330DELHI FUNDS SRI LANKA – AID OR RANSOM?
Region: SingaporeDELHI FUNDS SRI LANKA – AID OR RANSOM? That Sri Lanka (SL) arm twists Delhi into keeping its funding tap open is ironic. SL is milking a Delhi entrapped into the Eelam conflict at the Indian tax payers’ expense. Delhi’s fear that SL may implicate the ‘Delhi trio’ in the massacre of the 20 000 civilians and white flag waving resistance leaders in May is phobic. This has snowballed... more
Views: 1707SRI LANKA (SL) WAR CRIMES –THE WEST NOT DELHI WILL DELIVER JUSTICE TO THE VICTIMS
Region: SingaporeThe trigger for the enlightened West’s enthusiastic pursuit of justice for Tamils was the (10-19 May 2009) massacres by the Sri Lankan (SL) armed forces of over 20 000 civilians along with a white flag waving group of the Tamil resistance (LTTE) leaders in the narrow ‘no fire’ zone. Committed officials in the OCRHC and mandated human rights groups armed with graphic evidence/accounts of these ... more
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