This has been going around for many yearsOriginally posted by ObviousMan:This protege from Chiam is like a mad dog. No wonder he bit the hand that fed him and threw Chiam out of his party. What is he compared to Gandhi? Gandhi to the Indian people is a God, CSJ to Singaporean is a mad Dog.
I think his struggles had made him deranged? Just when i thought he cleverly pulled off the 4 people protest march, he shot himself in the foot by opening his big mouth. I always think he is a PAP mole, planted by PAP to make the opposition look bad!![]()
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25/11/2005
Singapore High Commissioner in Canberra's Letters to Major Australian Dailies
25 Nov 05
Editor, The Age
[email protected]
In your report "Singapore Accused of Hypocrisy on Drug Stance" (The Age, 23 Nov 05), you quoted Dr Chee Soon Juan's comments on Singapore's economic links with Myanmar "despite the regime's complicity in the opium trade" and insinuated that the Singapore Government had invested in projects in Myanmar that supported the activities of the drug lords.
This is an old, baseless allegation which Dr Chee first raised almost a decade ago. The Singapore Government had then explained that the investment by the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation (GIC) in the Myanmar Fund was completely open and above board. The Fund held stakes in hotels and companies that were straightforward investments in bona fide commercial projects. Other investors in the Fund included Coutts & Co, an old British bank, and the Swiss Bank Corporation. GIC was a passive investor in the Fund. Subsequently, it divested its stake in 2003.
At the time, the Government also offered to set up a Commission of Inquiry, so that Dr Chee could produce his evidence, and there could be a full and open investigation. Unfortunately, Dr Chee never took up the offer.
If any Singaporean disagrees with our tough laws on drugs and the death penalty for drug traffickers, the proper and democratic way to proceed is to contest and win an election, and press to change the law in Parliament. Dr Chee has stood for elections three times, but lost each time, most recently in 2001 garnering barely 20% of the popular vote.
Dr Chee has compared his struggle to Mahatma Gandhi's non-violent fight against the British in India, but Singaporeans know Dr Chee for what he is. In 1993, he was dismissed by the National University of Singapore for misusing university research funds to pay for postage on his wife's PhD thesis and falsifying transport claims. In 1996, when appearing before a hearing at a Parliamentary Select Committee, he wilfully gave false information and was censured by Parliament for perjury. Dr Chee's rehashed allegations about Singapore's links with Myanmar, and his criticisms of Singapore democracy, must be seen in this light.
Joseph K H Koh
High Commissioner
Singapore High Commission
17 Forster Crescent
Yarralumla, ACT 2600, Australia
Tel 61 (2) 6273 3944
Fax 61 (2) 6273 9823
After all, isnÂ’t Singapore a designer economy, custom-made for multinational companies? With globalisation on an unstoppable march, why make democracy when you can make money?NO MNC.No Spore today.
I still read in foreign publications of the stability in Singapore, and the remarkable lack of labour strife in the country.Yes.u are always overseas.
IÂ’ve even had mainland Chinese come up to me and whisper that they look over their shoulders less in Beijing than they do in Singapore.What a insult to Spore!
Is that relationship still current?CSJ said spore.....
I understand also there's huge amounts of drug money that's being laundered through Singapore that some of these experts have documented that I've brought up The drugs Van Nguyen was carrying most probably came from Burma's golden triangle.
Has Singapore demonstrated its opposition to this trade
with the Burmese government?
Not only have they not demonstrated any kind of opposition, they continue to be one of the biggest, if not the biggest investor in Burma, knowing full well that this Burmese military regime right now that's running the country has been doing business and supporting or being supported by some of the biggest drug lords, biggest producers in Burma.