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Old 15-09-2014, 12:36 PM   #31
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Of course must respect Mr yaacob.

He is the one create ponding.

He is the one said orchard flood is 50 yrs once.
One old farter that is still farting
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Old 15-09-2014, 12:40 PM   #32
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Any link to watch this movie??? Can some good man post in here... the movie.u tube?
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Old 16-09-2014, 10:10 AM   #33
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This guy's children hold dual citizenship (SGP+USA) as the wife is US citizen right? Lets see which side the children choose in future.
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Old 19-09-2014, 10:44 PM   #34
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http://news.asiaone.com/news/singapo...singapore-love

Singaporeans arrive for Johor Baru screening of documentary To Singapore With Love

The majority in the queue were students, but a few working adults took the day off to catch film-maker Tan Pin Pin's documentary titled To Singapore With Love. It is being screened at a hotel in Johor Baru, one of four cities where an annual Freedom Film Festival is being held.


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Interest in exile film up after curb, published on Sep 12, 2014

By Nur Asyiqin Mohamad Salleh

SINGAPORE - Some Singaporeans are planning to travel to Johor Baru to watch a little-known documentary film on Singapore's political exiles, with one student organising a chartered bus service for the event.

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They were spurred into action by the Media Development Authority's (MDA) decision to disallow public screenings of To Singapore, With Love here.

The MDA said its contents "undermine national security" and classified it as Not Allowed for All Ratings. That means the film, by local filmmaker Tan Pin Pin, 44, cannot be shown in public or distributed here.

Among those whose interest has been piqued by the MDA's action is sales manager Louis Khoo, 30: "I didn't know about the film before MDA made its decision. And now that we're told we can't watch it here, everyone wants to watch it."

Ms Tan's film is based on interviews with nine Singaporeans who fled the country and now live in Britain and Thailand. The film premiered at the Busan International Film Festival in South Korea last October, and has played in Berlin and the US.

The MDA said the people featured in it gave distorted and untruthful accounts of how they came to leave and remain outside Singapore, and "legitimate actions of the security agencies to protect the national security and stability of Singapore are presented in a distorted way as acts that victimised innocent individuals".

The film will play at film festivals in India, the Philippines, London and Taiwan this month and next month.Some students in London, like Royal College of Music undergraduate Nabillah Jalal, are planning to watch it with friends when it plays there at the SEA ArtsFest in October.

"The entire saga of exiling a film about being exiled is stirring some interest - and rebellion - in me," said the 22-year-old. "But it's also a chance to look at perspectives we rarely see."

The film is now on a four-city tour in Malaysia. It played in Petaling Jaya last week and will go to Johor Baru, Kuantan and Penang. Next Friday, clerk Charmaine Lee, 28, will drive with a group of friends to Johor Baru, where the film will be shown at Malaysia's annual Freedom Film Festival.

More than 100 people have registered their interest to attend the screening. Ms Tan yesterday posted on the Facebook event page that the current venue can hold only 150 people. If more register, the organisers may switch to one that can hold 400.

Yesterday, Mr Lim Jialiang, who studies at Nanyang Technological University, created a sign-up form for people who want to take a chartered bus to JB for the show. There have been offers to sponsor two buses, said Mr Lim, 24.

Yesterday, the MDA elaborated on its previous day's remark that a "purely private" screening is allowed. Its spokesman said: "Whether a screening is private will depend on many factors, including how these screenings are planned and conducted and who is permitted access.

"For example, a screening of a film to one's own family members or personal friends could be private screening if no other person is permitted access."


This article was first published on September 12, 2014.
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Old 20-09-2014, 11:31 AM   #35
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I somehow thanks e authorities will stop those students and give counseling to 'bring them back to main track'.

Since gov said no public screenings, can private screening here bo? Can sell dvd bo?
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Old 20-09-2014, 03:09 PM   #36
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Threaten national security? That is a load of bull. If the government did right with their heads held high, why are they so scare as to ban a film. It is not like we the people of Singapore are stupid and cannot paint the picture ourselves. Censorship is a tool to control the people.
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Old 20-01-2015, 11:46 AM   #37
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Operation Cold Store is probably the worst and most shameful nightmare in our political history.
No hor... THEY claimed otherwise hor.

Revisionist historians distorting history: Sam Tan
Their claims lack academic rigour, intellectual honesty: Minister of State
Posted on Jan 15, 2015 9:11 AM Updated: Jan 16, 2015 10:40 PM
By Zakir Hussain

SINGAPORE - Historians and activists seeking to downplay the Communist threat to Singapore in the 1960s are being intellectually dishonest as they "distort Singapore's history to serve their political agendas".

The comment by Minister of State (Prime Minister's Office) Sam Tan on Wednesday is the latest in an ongoing debate over allegations by ex-detainees and some historians that a major crackdown on 113 leftists in February 1963, codenamed Operation Coldstore, was politically motivated.

"Revisionist historians and their proxies have resorted to defending their claims on the grounds that these were 'peer reviewed', but they have not been able to deny or refute the contrary sources and overwhelming evidence that demolish their thesis," he said in a statement.

"Historical discourse and debate requires academic rigor, intellectual honesty, and respect for evidence.

"These qualities have been sadly lacking among those championing a revisionist account of a key fight on our road to independence."

He said that in distorting history, "they disrespect the memory of those who made sacrifices and lost lives to defeat the communist threat and build the Singapore that we have today".

His remarks come a month after Singapore's High Commissioner to Australia Burhan Gafoor wrote to Australian website New Mandala to rebut claims in an article by former Coldstore detainee Poh Soo Kai that the arrests were a "set-up" against political opponents of then prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, including Barisan Sosialis chief Lim Chin Siong.

Mr Burhan said the Barisan was the principal open united front tool of the banned Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) in Singapore. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong also included a link to Mr Burhan's letter in a Facebook post on Dec 20.

But Ms Teo Soh Lung - detained in 1987 after being accused of being part of a Marxist conspiracy - and revisionist historians rejected these statements.

"I don't care if Lim Chin Siong was a communist or a CPM member...What we need to know is whether Lim Chin Siong and his colleagues committed any acts of violence and acted against the interest of Singapore," Ms Teo said in a recent online commentary.

Mr Tan said Ms Teo and the revisionists "continue to maintain the hollow claim that the Communist United Front was an 'invention'. They have not refuted the evidence presented, drawn from both the British archives as well as published accounts by key CPM leaders."

He also cited the British archives and ex-CPM leader Chin Peng who said the Barisan was the CPM's principal political tool, and that Coldstore shattered the CPM's underground network throughout Singapore.

He added that Ms Teo's remarks showed she "has conceded that her previous assertion that Lim Chin Siong was not a communist was untenable, in the face of the evidence cited by Mr Burhan".

"It does matter that Lim Chin Siong was the CPM's key Communist united front leader in Singapore, because the CPM advocated armed struggle, and through the united front was fomenting unrest and disorder in Singapore in order to establish a communist regime throughout Malaya."
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Old 20-01-2015, 11:50 AM   #38
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Doctor who made allegations about Operation Coldstore
Posted on Jan 15, 2015 9:24 AM Updated: Jan 15, 2015 9:27 AM
By Lim Yan Liang

One of the more prominent men arrested during Operation Coldstore in February 1963 is Dr Poh Soo Kai.

Now 82, the medical doctor was among 113 people detained in the crackdown on communists and leftists and their key supporters.

Dr Poh was left-leaning from his student days at the then University of Malaya in Singapore. He was president of the University Socialist Club.

Later, he became a member of the People's Action Party (PAP) until 1961, when 13 left-wing assemblymen were expelled from the party.

They formed the Barisan Sosialis party, which was led by Mr Lim Chin Siong.

Dr Poh was its assistant secretary-general and, with many Barisan leaders, was detained in 1963. He was freed in end-1973 but re-arrested in 1976 for plotting to revive Communist United Front activities.

After his release in 1982, he practised as a doctor for eight years before moving to Canada. He returned here in 2007.

In recent years, he has been active in presenting his side of the Operation Coldstore story.

He co-edited a book of essays by former detainees and historians to mark the crackdown's 50th anniversary last year.

In the book, Dr Poh said Coldstore was targeted at political opponents of then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, a point he repeated in his Dec 3 article on the Australian National University's New Mandala website.

"What it did, in effect, was to eliminate Lim Chin Siong and the Barisan Sosialis from the 1963 General Election," he wrote on the website.

Dr Poh also disagreed with the official reason for the arrests of the leaders: their close ties with rebel leaders of the 1962 Brunei Revolt, and the statement they issued supporting the uprising. He said the statement was one of moral support, "no different from those Barisan had issued for other anti-colonial uprisings".

The argument that the arrests were partly politically motivated and that the Government overstated the communist threat, has also been made by a number of historians like Dr Thum Ping Tjin, former Asia Research Institute fellow, and some former detainees.

But the Government has said revisionist accounts portraying the struggle against the Barisan as a peaceful and democratic disagreement over the terms of merger with Malaysia have ignored the communists' agenda to seize power by subversion and armed struggle.

Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean said recently the communist efforts to destabilise Singapore have been well documented by academics and other writers, "including top leaders of the CPM (Communist Party of Malaya) such as Chin Peng and Fong Chong Pik".

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Old 20-01-2015, 11:57 AM   #39
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No hor... THEY claimed otherwise hor.
according to the Japanese, chinese and korean women offer themselves to be f.arked to death by japanese soldiers during the war .....
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Old 20-01-2015, 11:58 AM   #40
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And now they offered us. We are being screwed!
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