@X im sowwy

@TracingWoodgrains @kaamrev

!chuds !asians

@Turkeyvann youtube embeds give an error

The one beside is called a Michael Jackson because it's soy milk + grass jelly which is sort of a white and black drink combination lol

!chuds !trump2024

The CoCane Store

!chuds What a fricking r-slur "hmm today I shall damage vehicles where there are cameras all around"

https://old.reddit.com/r/singapore/comments/1gw7m8j/nus_student_allegedly_deflated_tyres_of_five_cars/

SINGAPORE - A man who allegedly deflated the tyres of five cars at two multi-storey carparks in Woodlands was charged on Nov 21 with being a public nuisance.

Benjamin Chia Yit Loong, 23, purportedly committed the offences between 10am and noon on Nov 19 at the multi-storey carparks at Block 517A and Block 519A Woodlands Drive 14. He also allegedly placed fliers on the windscreens of the five vehicles.

Charge sheets state these acts caused annoyance to the public.

Police said on Nov 20 that a car owner alerted them when she found the tyres of her vehicle deflated at one of the carparks.

Chia was arrested within eight hours. Preliminary investigations showed that at least four other vehicles nearby were similarly damaged.

According to a photo of the flier that was left on the vehicles, the acts were purportedly carried out in the name of a climate activist group that is against the use of sport utility vehicles. This is believed to be the first case in Singapore linked to the group.

Chia has been remanded at Woodlands Division and attended court proceedings through video-link on Nov 21. The bespectacled and bearded man was clad in a blue T-shirt and handcuffed.

A police prosecutor requested that the case be adjourned for investigations, and added that Chia would likely face more charges.

His lawyer Anil Sandhu said Chia is a student at NUS and it was now the exam period. Mr Sandhu asked for the next mention of the case to be after his client's exams. The lawyer added that Chia's parents were in court and would bail him out.

Chia asked if he could say something about the adjournment period, to which District Judge Lorraine Ho said he could speak to his lawyer. Judge Ho set his bail at $5,000, and his case will be heard again on Dec 9.

An NUS spokeswoman told The Straits Times on Nov 21 that it takes a serious view of student misconduct, including criminal offences committed off campus. The university will take the necessary disciplinary action following court proceedings, she added.

If convicted, Chia can be jailed for up to three months, fined up to $2,000, or both.

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/r/sg redditor is outraged that he is discouraged from reporting someone that is smoking in his own apartment on our local snitching app. The app even says it's not against the law.

: Posting here again..govt logic is: if we can't report then the problem doesn't exist. It's not entirely true because sometimes u can report but u just lose energy and faith

I live in a point block and neighbours smoke non stop at the rubbish chute areas so every surrounding units get second hand smoke. It wasn't just smoking. They littered the area with cigarette butts and the floors are black. I reported on oneservice app and it got bounced around by HDB, TC, and NEA. After weeks NEA called me to say they are helpless as smoking is at random times of the day and they are unable to place anyone just to catch people smoking. They asked me to snap photos or videos of them. Can u believe this? They want me to snitch on myself so the neighbours all hate me? Later on they called again (as I was still reporting) to tell me the only other way is to write a report and bring it to court.

After this I just gave up reporting. And till this day the smoking and littering continues

: Ok lor I don't recommend this solution because it's not the best, but when my neighbours' smoke comes into my house I will shout out the window "WHO'S THIS SMOKING MF WANT TO GIVE US ALL CANCER" until they're too uncomfortable to continue.

The reason I don't recommend is because it can become a noise issue which may force the authorities to take notice, then at that point the smoke issue can be brought up. But each to their own.

My neighbour actually stopped smoking, but one guy smoking at the playground shouted back and almost fought with me. So use this at your own risk....

: When I'm out with my kids I always super passive aggressively say "come, walk faster; got inconsiderate smokers here" extra loud for everyone to hear. Smokers are too shameless to gaf, but most other passersby give a knowing smirk

!chuds

An international student was stabbed to death in the early hours of Thursday morning in central Brussels. Two suspects have been arrested and charged with murder.

A 25-year-old Singaporean student was stabbed on Rue Saint-Pierre in the city centre at around 02:30 on Thursday morning. The street runs parallel to Rue Adolphe Max, a popular shopping street.

Officers from the Brussels-Ixelles police zone arrived to the scene and discovered the victim with a stab wound in his abdomen. Police provided first aid until paramedics arrived. The victim was hospitalised but he did not survive the incident.

According to police, the victim was approached by two suspects and was stabbed after a short conversation. The suspects, both men aged 18, have been detained following house searches. They were charged with murder on Friday afternoon.

The Public Prosecutor's Office, an investigating judge, a forensic doctor and the Federal Judicial Police have all examined the site of the incident.

The Public Prosecutor has stated that "the exact circumstances of the events have yet to be clarified" and will not comment further while the investigation is ongoing.

But seriously, frick the dementia-ridden orange hemorrhoid. Fricking POS, him and all his fricking cronies. I'm so worried for all my US friends, especially the women, the LGBTQ folks, the trans folks, and the non-white people.

Also I have been labelled a troll by the UN. Not only do I hate the antichrist the antichrist hates me.

"Small Hours of the Night," by Singapore director Daniel Hui, has been removed from the lineup of the Singapore International Film Festival.

The city-state's authorities have refused the film a release certificate, meaning that it is effectively banned and that the festival cannot go forward with the docu-drama's planned screening in its Undercurrents section. The festival has made no public statement, but its website shows the film as not available for screening.

In the early years of Singapore's independence (from the British Empire in 1963 and from Malaysia in 1965), Tan Chay Wa had been an armed activist, possibly a Communist, who rejected the two countries' separation. By the time that authorities caught up with him in 1976 he was working as a bus driver. He escaped from Singapore, but was caught with a loaded gun in Malaysia and was hanged in 1983.

"Small Hours" involves a real-world court case that followed Tan's brother's attempt to follow Tan Chay Wa's last wishes and have a revolutionary poem inscribed on his grave. The case scandalized the establishment and the brother was jailed for advocating acts prejudicial to the security of Singapore.

"In consultation with the Ministry of Law and the Attorney-General's Chambers, IMDA has assessed the film to have content that is potentially contrary to the law, i.e. illegal. It would be likely to be prejudicial to national interests to approve it for screening," said the InfoComm Media Development Authority.

"As the director of this film, the irony does not escape me that a film about censorship is itself being censored. I am of course very disappointed that people all around the world can see this film, but not in Singapore. However, I remain hopeful that one day, we will have a discursive space in Singapore that is gracious and generous enough to include diverse voices and points of view," said Hui in a statement.

The film had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this year, its North American premiere at Doc Fortnight MoMA, its Asian premiere at Taipei International Film Festival, and was most recently screened as part of the Experimenta Strand at the BFI London Film Festival.

It was produced by Tan Bee Thiam and Hui, through 13 Little Pictures with the support of Purin Pictures and White Light Studios. It was first presented as a project at FIDLab 2016 and Berlinale Talents Doc Station 2017. It also received funding from the Tan Ean Kiam Foundation --- SGIFF Southeast Asian Documentary Grant in 2020, administered by the festival.

Hui's next project is again to receive funding from Purin Pictures.

the best sovereign wealth fund in the world (6% over the last 10 years) warns of global equity market turmoil if trump gets elected

lots of trump in the thread too

!chuds they probably deserve it for still running her after this tweet

when she did a fake #MeToo

Literal DEI hire

Kill all commies

SINGAPORE – Defence lawyer Andre Jumabhoy, who is representing Workers' Party (WP) chief and Leader of the Opposition Pritam Singh, sought to paint former WP MP Raeesah Khan as a habitual liar from the moment her cross-examination began on Oct 15.

After more apparent inconsistencies were put to Ms Khan, it became clear that this was part of the defence's bid to impeach Ms Khan's credit as a witness.

Such impeachment can happen if a witness gives testimony that is inconsistent with his or her former statements, according to the Evidence Act.

The attempt sparked a 30-minute debate on the second day of Singh's trial around whether there was really a discrepancy in Ms Khan's testimony. Mr Jumabhoy, a former prosecutor, argued that Ms Khan's statement to the police should be allowed as evidence for purposes of this impeachment process.

Ms Khan had to step out of the courtroom while these arguments were made, but the court was adjourned for the day before the matter was resolved.

Deputy Principal District Judge Luke Tan is expected to continue to hear the defence's argument for impeachment on Oct 16, when Singh's trial resumes.

Singh is fighting two charges over his alleged lies to the committee convened to investigate Ms Khan's untruth in Parliament.

Ms Khan had, on Aug 3, 2021, told Parliament how she had accompanied a sexual assault victim to a police station, where the victim was treated insensitively. She repeated the claim before the House on Oct 4 the same year, before admitting to her lie on Nov 1, 2021.

If convicted, he could be fined up to $7,000, jailed for up to three years, or both, on each charge.

Lies upon lies

The defence's three-hour cross-examination was littered with charged moments.

On one occasion, Mr Andre Jumabhoy confronted Ms Khan with the question: "You are, in fact, a liar, correct? You tell lies non-stop, don't you?"

"Yes, I lied," Ms Khan said in response to the first question. She also asked what Mr Jumabhoy meant by "non-stop".

In another instance, Mr Jumabhoy sought to show that Ms Khan had built upon her original lie with more lies, noting that she had managed to lie at least four times in a message to Singh. "That's pretty impressive by any stretch of the imagination," the lawyer said.

The message in question was Ms Khan's response to Singh when he asked, soon after she delivered her untrue anecdote in Parliament on Aug 3, 2021, if she was still in contact with the woman mentioned.

Ms Khan had told Singh then that the incident took place three years earlier in the early part of the year, and that she had met the victim at a bus stop near Bedok police station.

In response to Mr Kumabhoy's statement, Ms Khan said: "I wouldn't call it impressive, I would call it fear". He then remarked that she is "seen to be well-thinking enough" to add facts to support her accounts.

Ms Khan then said: "I would think being well-thinking would be coming out with the truth."

The defence also had her reaffirming her other lies to Singh, including that the number of the person who put the victim in touch with her was not working any more, or that she was not in touch with an organisation but rather "someone who came into my friend's radar".

At one point, Mr Jumabhoy asked about the lies she made in text messages, saying: "You're adding more substance, aren't you?", "You're adding more facts to support a lie", and "So it's a lie heaped upon a lie. And it's going to be wrapped up in more lies isn't it?".

Ms Khan agreed to all these statements.

When Mr Jumabhoy asked if that was how she treated someone she revered – a point she had made when questioned by the prosecution – she said she allowed her lies to snowball as she feared disappointing Singh.

She later told the court that she could have continued lying, but chose to admit the lie over a phone call to Singh on Aug 7. The lawyer put it to her that Singh had to ask her "point-blank whether the anecdote was true", and that she had not volunteered the information. She agreed.

Mr Jumabhoy also asked if she had clarified what the WP leaders wanted her to "take to the grave" during the Aug 8, 2021 meeting. That day, she had confessed her lie to Singh, Ms Sylvia Lim and Mr Faisal Manap. She said she did not.

With that, the lawyer put it to her that it was her assumption that the leaders had wanted her to take her lie in Parliament to the grave, and she said: "Yes".

'Substantiate?'

Mr Jumabhoy also sought to discredit Ms Khan based on her testimony before the Committee of Privileges (COP) in 2021. During that hearing, she said she did not know what Singh meant when he circled the problematic anecdote on a printed copy of her Aug 3 speech before it was delivered, and wrote "Substantiate?" next to it.

Mr Jumabhoy read out text messages between Singh and Ms Khan on Aug 3, shortly after she delivered the speech containing the lie. In them, Singh said: "I had a feeling this would happen. I highlighted this part in your draft speech. You should write to the police to clarify this matter."

She had told Singh: "I thought I edited it enough to remove this possibility."

If she had edited the statement, why did she say "no" when earlier asked if she made an edit based on Singh's comment, Mr Jumabhoy asked.

At this point, Ms Khan asked the lawyer to repeat or rephrase his questions several times, as he continued to poke at this apparent inconsistency.

After she asked for clarity a third time, Mr Jumabhoy read out her text message again. "That's your message there. You are now telling Mr Singh a lie."

"What was your question again?" Ms Khan asked.

The lawyer repeated his question a fifth time, and Ms Khan answered "no" when asked if she was telling Singh a lie in that instance. This was because she thought she had already edited the speech enough before Singh's feedback, and thus did not make further edits after seeing his comment, she added.

During the COP hearing, Ms Khan had also said: "At that point in time, I did not understand what that meant but, upon reflection, I understand now why he circled it and why he said what he said."

She repeated this in her testimony on Oct 14, adding that she did not make further changes to the speech even after seeing Singh's comment as she "didn't really understand the severity of what he wrote".

"I thought if it was something important, he would sit down and have a conversation with me, but he didn't, so I didn't make any changes," she said in court when questioned by the prosecution.

Mr Jumabhoy later asked point-blank if Ms Khan was saying it is true she did not understand what "substantiate" meant, despite the evidence that she had given so far in court.

Ms Khan said nothing, prompting Deputy Principal District Judge Luke Tan to say: "You'd want to respond to that".

"No, I don't think I've anything else to say to that," Ms Khan said.

Mr Jumabhoy then said her evidence to the COP was that she "didn't understand" what substantiate meant, whereas her statement in court was that she understands the term to mean "make sure it happened" or "make sure it is true". This is fundamentally different, he added.

Ms Khan told the court that she feels like she is saying the same things in different ways.

Defence says message on taking info to the grave was 'never sent'

The defence also suggested the possibility that Ms Khan's message to WP cadres Loh Pei Ying and Yudhishthra Nathan on Aug 8, 2021 about taking "the information to the grave" was never sent.

In leading the evidence towards this, Mr Jumabhoy said Ms Khan was aware that the message was significant, but decided not to mention it until after Ms Loh had brought it up before the COP.

He pointed out that the message in question was deleted from her phone and had to be extracted from Mr Nathan's phone.

Ms Khan said her phone was "a really old phone" that was "constantly crashing", which was why she deleted a number of mobile applications, including WhatsApp.

Later, Deputy Attorney-General Ang Cheng Hock sought to clarify if the defence's position was that the message was forged or not sent. Mr Jumabhoy said given that Mr Loh and Mr Nathan did not react to the message, "it appears that it was never sent".

The judge interjected to say he did not understand the point being made, adding: "They didn't react means she didn't send? They might have many reasons not to react? I think we can leave it to that."

Prosecution objects to impeachment application

Near the end of the session, the prosecution protested when Mr Jumabhoy sought to establish that Ms Khan had produced one version of evidence in front of the court, and another in her statement to the police.

Singh had sent an e-mail on Oct 1, 2021 reminding MPs of parliamentary protocol, which Ms Khan had described in court as "almost a dig at me". But Mr Jumabhoy noted that Ms Khan said "something quite different" to the police – that she was frightened that the untruth would be brought up in Parliament.

Mr Ang objected to the defence's "liberal" reference to police statements, noting that there must be a "material inconsistency" before he could do so.

"I've not objected so far because I am waiting for him to come to a material discrepancy. Surely, he must tell the court what it is," Mr Ang said.

The judge agreed, saying that the discrepancy to launch this impeachment process has to be "material", but the defence had not "really laid the ground for that". This was why he had a problem with how Ms Khan's questioning had gone, he said.

Ms Khan was then asked to leave the courtroom for the defence to make its application, following which both lawyers rose to their feet. Mr Ang said he was struggling to understand Mr Jumabhoy's characterisation of the discrepancy, adding that he was not sure why Ms Khan's reaction to the e-mail was material.

"The simple point is that this e-mail speaks for itself. All of us can read it," Mr Ang said.

He then said: "All this other evidence of whether it was a dig and whether she felt fear, all this is not the main point. One does not go through the whole impeachment procedure for something that is not really material."

Mr Jumabhoy insisted that what Ms Khan presented as evidence in relation to the e-mail involved "two fundamentally different reactions".

He also argued that Singh's e-mail on Oct 1 "has to be a nudge" to clarify her untruth if viewed against the evidence of her police statement.

But Mr Ang said Ms Khan didn't state if she viewed the e-mail as a nudge, direction or push to clarify the untruth.

She read it as a warning to all WP members that they have to substantiate any anecdotes made in Parliament, and not a direction to correct the lie she had already made, he noted.

Singh is represented by Mr Jumabhoy and Mr Aristotle Emmanuel Eng Zhen Yang, from Mr Jumabhoy's law firm. Singh's father, Mr Amarjit Singh, a former district judge, is also part of his legal team.

Ms Khan's cross-examination is expected to continue on Oct 16.

F35's are so cool

SINGAPORE - Dr Lee Wei Ling, the daughter of founding prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, has died at the age of 69, four years after she was diagnosed with a rare, degenerative brain disease.

Her death was disclosed by her younger brother Lee Hsien Yang, who said in a Facebook post at 5.50am on Oct 9 that she died at home.

The wake will be held at the Singapore Casket, Pearl and Sapphire Hall, in Lavender Street, from Oct 10 to Oct 12, he added in a subsequent post.

Dr Lee, the second of three children, was also the sister of Senior Minister Lee Hsien Loong. Writing on Facebook, SM Lee said his sister was a fighter, and her character remained unchanged throughout her life.

"She was fiercely loyal to friends, sympathised instinctively with the underdog, and would mobilise actively to do something when she saw unfairness, or suspected wrongdoing," he added.

Dr Lee, a neurologist who headed the National Neuroscience Institute as director from 2004 to 2014, was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy in 2020.

The condition affects physical movements, walking, balance and eye movements, and eventually swallowing, and can lead to serious complications such as pneumonia and choking.

In a Facebook post, Prime Minister Lawrence Wong said Dr Lee had devoted her life to medicine. "Throughout her career, she was unswerving in her focus on patient welfare and medical ethics."

PM Wong added that Dr Lee had also written newspaper columns later in her career, where she shared her stoic outlook on life as well as stories of Mr Lee Kuan Yew.

"Many readers would have come away enriched by her strong convictions and incisive observations," he said.

SM Lee said his sister had expounded her views "trenchantly and vividly" in her column in The Sunday Times.

Some of these pieces were later published in a book titled A Hakka Woman's Singapore Stories: My Life As A Daughter, Doctor And Diehard Singaporean.

Born in 1955, Dr Lee was the only daughter and middle child of Mr Lee Kuan Yew and Madam Kwa Geok Choo.

Her father became Singapore's founding prime minister the year she turned four.

Dr Lee's achievements were chronicled in newspaper articles over the years, such as when she became one of the youngest Singaporeans to attain a black belt in karate in 1970, and when she graduated top of her class year after year and became a President's Scholar in 1973.

In an interview with Today newspaper in 2003, she spoke of being a role model for national policies when she was young.

"I had to be very effective at being bilingual because I had to prove that the bilingual policy was going to be a successful policy. I had to take a third language in addition. I had to try and do well academically. I had to be a cadet because that time was the days of the rugged society, remember? I had to be a model to other students," she had said.

Announcing her diagnosis in a Facebook post on Aug 8, 2020, Dr Lee described it as a "rather nasty brain disease" that will result in death "for the fortunate".

She had said then: "My immediate reaction to the news was '忍'(ren), or 'endure' in Chinese, of which the traditional character has a knife above a heart. I have been practising '忍' since I was in Chinese school, recognising that life has many unpleasant, unavoidable situations.

"It would be nice if this entire episode turns out to be a nightmare and that I will wake up. But it is getting increasingly real and inescapable every day."

SM Lee said one of his early memories of his sister was of her first day in kindergarten, when she cried all the way home while on the school bus, despite his best efforts to comfort her. "After that, our mother arranged for our grandfather to pick us up after school instead."

An early January baby, she was almost seven by the time she went to Primary 1, SM Lee said.

"She was older than and way ahead of her classmates, and got thoroughly bored in class," he added. "So at the end of the year she got a double promotion to Primary 3. She continued to do well in school, being very competitive and very determined, and eventually won a President's Scholarship."

Dr Lee loved animals, especially dogs, and wanted to become a vet, SM Lee recounted. But after being dissuaded by their parents, she took up medicine instead, topping her class at the University of Singapore – now the National University of Singapore – before becoming a paediatric neurologist, specialising in epilepsy.

"She brought to medicine the same intensity and commitment she did to everything, and developed close bonds with her patients, many of whom she treated over many years," SM Lee said.

Dr Lee was also the doctor in the family, who would be consulted when a medical problem arose, big or small, he added.

"When I had lymphoma, she took a close interest in my treatment and progress," he said.

He also recounted how Dr Lee had done a quick examination of one of her nephews who came to the weekly family lunch with a tummy ache. She suspected appendicitis, and sent him to be properly examined. Her diagnosis turned out to be right.

SM Lee said his sister stayed on at the Lee family home at 38 Oxley Road with their parents after he and Mr Lee Hsien Yang married and moved out.

"She kept a watchful eye on their well-being as they grew older. She supervised our mother's care after her strokes. She took care of my father, too, who was himself growing older and frailer even as he looked after our mother, and especially after she died in 2010," he added.

"Years ago, when I was about 13, my father felt his life to be in danger, and told me that if anything happened to him, I was to take care of my mother and younger sister and brother," SM Lee said.

"Sadly, after he passed away in 2015, a shadow fell between my siblings and me, and I was unable to fulfil his wish. But I held nothing against Ling, and continued to do whatever I could to ensure her welfare."

Dr Lee and Mr Lee Hsien Yang were the joint administrators and executors of Mr Lee Kuan Yew's will. In 2017, they made public their dispute with SM Lee over the will with regard to 38 Oxley Road.

After Dr Lee was diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy in 2020, she took it with her usual fortitude and stoicism, and posted about it as one of those things in life to be borne and endured, SM Lee said.

"She knew what it meant, and made the most of the time she had, even as her health declined. Now she has left us. I will deeply miss Ling. May she rest in peace."

Mr Lee Hsien Yang wrote in the Facebook post: "At our father's funeral in 2015, Ling closed her eulogy thus: 'I can't break down (and cry), I am a Hakka woman.'

"Ling, I am less stoic than you."

He requested no flowers to be sent, adding that donations to charities such as Canossa Mission Singapore, Parkinson Society Singapore and Total Well-Being SG would be meaningful to Dr Lee.

Mr Lee Hsien Yang and his wife, lawyer Lee Suet Fern, were being investigated by the police for potential offences of giving false evidence in judicial proceedings over Mr Lee Kuan Yew's will.

The couple left Singapore amid investigations, said the police in March 2023.

Responding to queries, Mr Lee Hsien Yang confirmed that he would not be returning to Singapore for his sister's wake and funeral, and that his son Li Huanwu will be helping from Singapore.

!asians