Downsides of Down under
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Ah, the Vietnamese beef noodles? Yup, that's good stuff, although I just got my hands on the recipe for Teochew Gu Bak Kway Teow and that one thing thet haven't started serving here yet.Originally posted by miserable:Nice place, that is where I tasted the world best beef noodle !!!
Missed the drive, down the Great Ocean Road
& of course the Crown Casino
The Great Ocean Road's always good fun, and Marysville and the Yarra Valley are nice for a day's drive too. I'm not big into gambling, though. -
oohhh... I want my chicken Pizza & Souvlaki from Lamb's and a nice piping hot bowl of Vietnamese chicken+egg yolk noodles from Mekong.. Can send to me via air freight?! I pay u back!Originally posted by Gedanken:Ah, the Vietnamese beef noodles? Yup, that's good stuff, although I just got my hands on the recipe for Teochew Gu Bak Kway Teow and that one thing thet haven't started serving here yet.
The Great Ocean Road's always good fun, and Marysville and the Yarra Valley are nice for a day's drive too. I'm not big into gambling, though.
the hot plate deer meat here is getting old la..... -
Billions lost in Aussie Dept of Defense black hole
What you expect from banana country now happening in Aussie!!
Amazing,unauthorised off shore bank account etc.
Only ,The Age reported this news.
I cant find in http://www.smh.com.au/
or http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/.Why??Katharine Murphy, Canberra
2.What is the point the pays of their ministers are low
December 27, 2006
Other related coverage
* Inquiry into missing rocket launchers
* ASIO on case over rocket launcher puzzle
DAYS after the Defence Department launched an inquiry into fears that criminals have gained access to army shoulder-fired rocket launchers, the Auditor-General has found it cannot adequately account for inventory and "repairable items" worth $3.9 billion.
An annual investigation of government agencies by the Australian National Audit Office concludes that Defence has breached federal financial management controls.
The Auditor-General, Ian McPhee, also criticised the $8.7 billion Defence Materiel Organisation, the body responsible for managing defence equipment.
The audit office found the DMO had opened and operated foreign bank accounts without official approval and had "inadvertently" allowed one such account to go into the red.
The DMO had also "artificially fixed" the exchange rate when buying equipment for Australian troops overseas, a practice that caused the value of projects to be "misstated".
The value of one such project, the Australian light armoured vehicle capability, was overstated by $23 million.
The project was subsequently transferred from the DMO back to the Defence Department. The practice has since ceased.
The ongoing problems with Defence accounts follow two recent controversies involving the possible theft of specialist military equipment.
Defence Minister Brendan Nelson last week called in ASIO and the secretive Defence Security Authority to carry out a security audit, after concerns that criminals may have gained access to shoulder-fired 66-millimetre rocket launchers from army stores.
The audit office's conclusions on defence accounts are contained in its yearly review of the financial statements of government businesses and agencies, which was released just before Christmas.
The auditor says Defence has made some important improvements in its record-keeping and accountability during the past year.
But the audit office warns that despite recent improvement, which has seen Defence accounts cleared as "true and fair" apart from the inventories of general and repairable items, there is still much that should be done.
"Notwithstanding the significant reduction in uncertainty over some Defence balances in 2005-06, there remains significant uncertainty in relation to the two material line items within the Defence financial statements," it says.
The audit office says Defence will need to maintain its current commitment to improving accountability in order to secure a clean bill of health.
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Uhh, first, we don't have a newspaper called The Edge - are you sure you have the right country?
Second, at the beginning of this thread you claimed you wanted to present facts, so let's stick to what's been reported in the article, shall we? It's been reported that inventory and "repairable items" have been inadequately accounted for. The most you can say is that the ADF does not cover up its LRIs as well as the SAF does.
There's no mention of corruption in the article. Surely if a newspaper got a sniff of a corruption case, they'd make that the highlight of the article, wouldn't they? The bank accounts were opened by the DMO (albeit without authorisation) - if money was going to be skimmed off, don't you think that they would have covered up the paper trail more thoroughly? Please keep to your word of presenting facts instead of slipping in fallacious conclusions.
Third, gee, how do we know all about this? Oh yes, the Auditor General's findings have been made public. Is that such a big downside compared to not knowing where your CPF money is? If you do want to see a banana republic, why not look at an example of where hundreds of billions of public money is not only not accounted for (is it all in offshore accounts? ), but in fact where the people who own the money have been told that where their money is stashed is none of their business?
Between knowing that something's gone wrong and being kept in the dark, I'd just as soon be aware of what's going on. -
Tan Kia Gan : Minister for National Development
Tan Kia Gan, then Minister for National Development, was investigated in August 1966 for attempting to help his close businessman friend Lim Tjin Hauw and his son William Lim to clinch the sale of Boeing aircraft to Malaysian Airways. He also acted as an intermediary for his brother-in-law in the sale of a tin mine to Lim. For this, he was given 70,000 shares worth $1 each. As the witnesses did not want to implicate him, Tan Kia Gan was administratively stripped of all his public appointments by the Government.
Wee Toon Boon : Minister of State for Environment
Wee Toon Boon, then Minster of State for Environment, was charged for corruption involving $839,023 in April 1975. Investigation revealed that Wee was involved with a developer Lauw Tjin Ho, then Chairman of Lauw and Sons Pte Ltd. He used his ministerial status to make representation to civil servants on behalf of Lauw. In return, he was rewarded with a bunglow, worth $532,000, galvanised roofing for his home worth $3,500, free air tickets for him and his family to Indonesia and bank overdrafts totalling $300,000 to speculate in shares. He was convicted and sentenced to 4 1/2 years' imprisonment and ordered to pay a penalty of $7,023. His jail sentence was reduced to 18 months after he successfully appealed against one of the 5 charges.
Teh Cheang Wan : Minister for National Development
Teh Cheang Wan, then Minister for National Development, was investigated in 1986 for accepting 2 bribes totalling $1 million from Hock Tat Development Pte Ltd and Ho Yeow Koon of Keck Seng Pte Ltd in 1981 and 1982 respectively. Hock Tat Development had paid Teh a gratification of $500,000 after he helped the company to retain a piece of land that was earmarked for acquisition by the Government. Ho Yeow Koon had also given a gratification of $500,000 to Teh for helping to buy over a piece of State land for private development. Teh committed suicide before he could be formally charged in court. He maintained till the end that he was innocent.
http://app.cpib.gov.sg/newcpib/user/default.aspx?pgID=237
Choy Hon Tim : the largest total bribe amount in CPIB's history
Choy Hon Tim, the former Director of the Electricity Department as well as the Deputy Chief Executive (Operations) of the Public Utilities Board (PUB) may not be the most senior public officer investigated by the Bureau, but his case involved the largest amount of bribes uncovered. He was investigated in 1995 following allegations that he had received kickbacks in return for awarding contracts to suppliers and contractors of PUB when he was a Chief Electrical Engineer of PUB. Choy was subsequently charged for obtaining gratifications totalling $13.85 million. He was convicted and sentenced to 14 years' jail term and the $13.85 million bribe obtained by him was forfeited to the State.
Yeo Seng Teck : Trade Development Board Chief
Yeo Seng Teck, then Chief Executive Officer of Trade Development Board was investigated in 1993 for cheating offences dating back to 1988. Investigation revealed that he had used forged document to cheat his principals (in this case, the organisations he was working for) involving the purchase of Chinese antiques worth about $2 million. He was subsequently charged and convicted for cheating offences and sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment.
Lim How Seng : Director of Singapore History Museum
Lim How Seng was charged for corruptly receiving two loans of $20,000 each from a private vendor named 3G Studio. In return, Lim recommended a contract for the production of a new 3-dimensional show at the museum to be awarded to 3G Studio. He was sentenced to 3 month's imprisonment and ordered to pay a $20,000 penalty.
Andrew Goh Keng Guan : Assistant Head, Talent Group, Economic Development Board.
Andrew Goh, the Assistant Head of Talent Group took bribes totalling $380,000 from seven Chinese nationals between February 1999 and June 2001. In return, he helped the 7 Chinese nationals by processing their application for permanent residency in Singapore. Andrew was sentenced to 26 months' imprisonment and the money he took from the seven Chinese nationals was forfeited.
Ong Beng Leong : Commanding Officer of Training Resources Management Centre
Ong Beng Leong, a Lieutenant Colonel in the SAF, was the Commanding Officer of Training Resource Management Centre (TRMC) from 1st April 1999 to 14th December 2001. During this period, he knowingly accepted fictitious quotes submitted to him by the sole-proprietor of Sin Hiaptat Construction. According to financial procedures, he should have sourced for quotations from other contractors. Ong had then gone on to award contracts to the Sin Hiaptat Construction. He was later charged and convicted for using false documents to deceive his principal (i.e. his employer in this case), an offence under section 6(c) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, Cap 241. He was sentenced to 1.5 months' imprisonment.
http://app.cpib.gov.sg/newcpib/user/default.aspx?pgID=236
For those that are detected, I wonder how many goes undetected. If you see 5 persons with nine fingers walking pass you; Does it mean Singapore only has 5 persons with nine fingers?
There will [never] be no corruption in Singapore.
[xxxxx] = censored
Class 95 FM, only hear the good stuff. (Tennis Coach talking to father regarding kid's potential in tennis) -
2.,The Age reported this news.Originally posted by maurizio13:Tan Kia Gan : Minister for National Development
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(many corruptions cases shown here)
There will [never] be no corruption in Singapore.
[xxxxx] = censored
Class 95 FM, only hear the good stuff. (Tennis Coach talking to father regarding kid's potential in tennis)
which is Aussie newspaper.
u are right.I jump to conclusions too soon without evidences
of corruptions in Aussie.
Sg get low corruptions cases,not NO corruptions cases.
u think you can have this kind of living standard if sg get serious
corruption in past few decades?
3.you can view salary S$1k to $200,000 pm to sg civil servant as
another form bribery.But we are human!!But it works.
A unskilled to high rank civil servant in SEA may earn fraction
of sg's.But what are the damn consquences?
A policeman right in front of police station in NORTH stopped me
and hinted me for $$$$.Why?He has to feed his family!!
I wont blame him.It is the culture there.From son in law of Who's Who to
traffic police do the same thing.
4.Pl post the content of Audit General of Aussie here
to let Sporean learn a lesson.
Pl keep an eye on aussie how to spend A$3 billions for Super Hornet
without seriuos evaluations and allowing enough time be delivered.
5.
Water,Water,NOT everywhere
Water bans for 'repeat offenders',Renee Switzer,December 30, 2006
Industry to face water curbs,Peter Ker and Liz Minchin,December 29, 2006
Stage three: new curbs on water to MELBURNIANS,Jason Dowling,December 17, 2006 -
No, it doesn't. As maurizio's multiple examples already illustrate, corruption goes all the way up to ministerial level. Mind you, with the degree to which the Singaporean government keeps secrets from the people, we're likely to have only seen the tip of the iceberg, and there's no accountability to keep things in check. You're right that you can't entirely stop corruption, and the presence of a shadow government in Australia helps ensure that things don't stay hidden.Originally posted by lionnoisy:3.you can view salary S$1k to $200,000 pm to sg civil servant as
another form bribery.But we are human!!But it works.
As for water, if the chaps up north ever decided to turn off the tap, do you think Singapore would be much better off? At the very least you'd have a war on your hands.
That said, the Australian government does have to get off its butt and get moving on projects such as desalination plants and rerouting water channels. As for the penalties for people who repeatedly flout water restrictions, I'm all for it - it's ridiculous that someone should see fit to hose down his bloody driveway when he could just as easily sweep it. -
A year of bad guys, bad cops and bad calls,Thursday, December 28, 2006,Gotcha with Gary Hughes
sorry i cant link all the links in this essay,
What a year it was, on both sides of the law. Two underworld bosses departed the scene – one using a fake passport and the other in a coffin. A nobody named John Mark Karr became an instant global celebrity for falsely confessing to the murder of a Colorado beauty pageant queen. Two former judges found themselves on the wrong side of the law. Victoria Police’s squeaky clean image lost its squeak, with half a dozen corrupt officers sent to jail. WA authorities finally admitted they had the wrong man and released Andrew Mallard after keeping him locked up for 12 years for a murder he didn’t commit. A conwoman ran rings around police in three states. And the image of cruise ship holidays was forever changed.
HereÂ’s how Gotcha chronicled the year.
In MelbourneÂ’s turbulent underworld, Italian Mafia figure Mario Condello was gunned down outside his home on the eve of his trial on conspiracy to murder charges in February. His killer or killers have not been caught and we revealed earlier this month that Victoria Police is now trying to force the key informer in the trial out of witness protection.
A less permanent departure from the underworld was that of Antonios “Fat Tony” Mokbel, who disappeared in March in the closing stages of his trial on cocaine trafficking charges. It was later revealed that police had also connected him to two underworld murders.
Mokbel managed to escape with $20 million in drug profits and was rumoured to have initially fled to Lebannon using a fake identity
. Since then police have been slowly winding up “Mokbel Inc”, seizing millions of dollars in assets, including luxury cars, cash and jewellery. Also out of pocket is Fat Tony’s sister-in-law, Renate, who was ordered to forfeit the $1 million bail surety she put up for him.
Meanwhile another underworld identity, Mick Gatto – the man who shot and killed gangland hitman Andrew “Benji” Veniamin in self defence - was revelling in his new-found fame and proclaiming that he was just any ordinary bloke trying to make an honest living.
It was a bad year for NSW judges Marcus Einfeld and Jeffrey Shaw. Einfeld was caught out trying to escape a speeding fine by saying an overseas visitor had been driving his car at the time. The only problem was the woman he named as the driver had died three years earlier. Police are still trying to get to the bottom of the matter.
And just this month the NSW Police Integrity Commission recommended that former judge Jeffrey Shaw be charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice after a blood sample taken after he was involved in a 2004 crash disappeared before police could test it. The police sample ended up in the possession of Shaw, although how it got there is still the subject of disagreement between the judge and the PIC.
In August John Mark Karr was extradited from Thailand to Colorado after confessing to the unsolved murder of JonBenet Ramsey almost 10 years earlier. DNA tests quickly cleared him, although not before his name and photograph got to all four corners of the globe. He was later cleared of child pornography charges – police had lost the evidence – and we last heard of him doing the rounds of celebrity television chat shows.
The award for most brazen criminal of the year must surely go to elusive “Catch Me If You Can” conwoman Jodie Harris, who taunted police across three states during an identity fraud crime spree. She was eventually caught in Sydney in July after her boyfriend, a Victorian policeman, tipped off his NSW colleagues. She was jailed in September for a minimum of three and a half years and ordered to pay $175,000 in compensation to victims.
The “It’s About Time” award for the year must go to Andrew Mallard, who was freed in Perth after spending almost 12 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit. His appeals had been rejected by a succession of WA courts before the High Court finally quashed it because key evidence that would have benefited his case was withheld by police from his lawyers. We detailed what the key evidence was. WA’s Corruption and Crime Commission is still investigating who was to blame.
In Victoria the cell doors slammed shut on six corrupt police officers, including Detective Senior-Sergeant Wayne Geoffrey Strawhorn. The forceÂ’s once untainted image took a further knock when the stateÂ’s corruption watchdog targeted the Armed Offenders Squad, with public hearings into allegations members had assaulted suspects. The squad was disbanded, but thanks to some muscle-flexing by the police union was quickly reborn as the Armed Offenders Taskforce.
Perhaps the saddest episode of the year was inquest into the death of Dianne Brimble from an overdose of the date rape drug GHB during a cruise on P&OÂ’s Pacific Sky in 2002. The evidence showed how callously and brutally she had been treated by the men she was with on the night she died. But as we reported, a failure by the shipÂ’s crew to properly quarantine the crime scene made any possibility of laying charges unlikely. The inquest, which helped highlight the dangers of cruising the high seas, is due to resume in February.
We also looked at inadequate sentences, plea bargaining, the plight of sexual assault victims, juries, bad driving, why we are losing the war on drugs, serial killers and domestic violence, the name but a few.
IÂ’d be interested in hearing what you thought were the most important crime and corruption issues of the year.
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VICTORIA'S police force is riddled with "deep-seated and continuing corruption"
Don Stewart, one of the nation's most respected judicial figures, says Victoria Police and the Bracks Labor Government oppose a royal commission because they do not want the extent of corruption within the force made public.....
2.Confronting corruption,Thursday, January 11, 2007,Gotcha with Gary Hughes
The Australian revealed on Monday that the Office of Police Integrity - an offshoot of the Ombudsman's office - was launching an investigation into possible links between corrupt police and organised crime, including allegations that corrupt officers had protected underworld figures......But the reality is that police corruption in Victoria has become the elephant in the room that everyone is trying their hardest to ignore.
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Hey Lionnoisy - Just out of curiosity , why you like to criticise other countries ?
Yes, there is news everyday in Australia about something going on . But at least I rest assured knowing that there is freedom of speech in where I am. -
2.i just want to give a more balanced views of what happeningOriginally posted by fymk:Hey Lionnoisy - Just out of curiosity , why you like to criticise other countries ?
Yes, there is news everyday in Australia about something going on . But at least I rest assured knowing that there is freedom of speech in where I am.
in Aussie.There are many pple in SG know too many good
things of Aussie.They have rights to know what come along
with the benefits.I am exercing the limited freedom,as
many pple,in SG.
But i have freedom here not affected by corrupted police
and Judges etc......
3.Here another Justice's decisions is critized.
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/vcat-chief146s-gaming-link-under-fire/2007/01/12/1168105181202.html
Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal chiefÂ’s gaming link under fire.by
Cameron Houston and Royce Millar,January 13, 2007The president of Victoria's appeals tribunal is at the centre of yet another political storm, this time over his previous links to the gaming industry.
4.Systematic and deep rooted Corruption seems exist in NSW.
It follows a string of contentious decisions to approve poker machines at venues across the state.
The academic and anti-gaming campaigner James Doughney said yesterday that Justice Stuart Morris had failed to declare his former role as Queen's counsel for gaming operators before to his appointment to the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal........
In all four cases — pubs and clubs at Drouin, Ocean Grove, Romsey and Ringwood — Justice Morris has overruled local councils and the Victorian Commission for Gambling Regulation and found in favour of the poker machines......
Sydney illegal brothels & corruption
5.What benefits i have if Sporeans not migrate there?
I just doing free social services to prospective emgriants to
Aussie. -
Ok my dear. Let I pointed out to Gazelle and so I will point out to you.Originally posted by lionnoisy:i just want to give a more balanced views of what happening
in Aussie.There are many pple in SG know too many good
things of Aussie.They have rights to know what come along
with the benefits.I am exercing the limited freedom,as
many pple,in SG.
I just doing free social services to prospective emgriants to
Aussie.
I actually do live in Australia now. For few years already. Lived in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Ged or I can give a more balance view than someone who had never lived in Australia that is unless you have been living in Australia longer than any of us to comment. However judging from your posts taken only out of newspaper - I highly doubt that .
Reading a newspaper or an article on the web is different from actually living in a place. I was once like you ...thinking there is no place better than Singapore . However coming to Australia to study open my eyes to alot of things. Positives and negatives in a country.
At the end of the day , I returned to Singapore with a more open view and worked in Singapore. I finally decided the best place for me is actually in Australia. I could voice out objections and the rationale to my superiors in Australia and they do listen even though I am low down the food chain. The big difference between their culture and ours is that they listen some what and not brush you aside because you are not a scholar.
I know what goes on in Australia. It is not a perfect country but it is not that bad either. Yes crime rate is not as low as Singapore but this happens everywhere.
Look at USA - they are like the gun capital of the world ...guns out on the street , owned by bad and good people under the right of the 2nd amendment to take up arms, but still people want to go there.
Ask yourself why. -
cause if you dont cap that b|tch he's gonna cap you
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u are lucky if u are holding sg passport--can migrate easier.
every one just decide for his best interest.Good luck.
2.Serious Corruptions are the reality.Not TV drama.
The learned judge said Aussie got very seriuos corruption
problems,not me. -
for someone who appears to hate australia so much you seem to be very updated on whats happening there?
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It's usually those who cannot make it thru or make it in Australia that are quite bitter about Australia.Originally posted by oldbreadstinks:for someone who appears to hate australia so much you seem to be very updated on whats happening there?
Or if we give lionnoisy the benefit of the doubt - he/she is living in a bubble. -
2.you are right.I am not a elite so i cant make it in Aussie.Originally posted by fymk:It's usually those who cannot make it thru or make it in Australia that are quite bitter about Australia.
Or if we give lionnoisy the benefit of the doubt - he/she is living in a bubble.
Or i may have mentality of ''The Grapes which i cant pick are sour''.
I dunt qualified for Aussie PR ,neither.
May be i ask my kids Join RAN & get Aussie PR!!.
Then they can sponsor me latee to be Aussie PR!!
I am wander why a big country like Aussie need so desperatly
for foreigners to defend her.
Are there any problems :low morale,low pay,mis-management,
corruptions,etc make Aussie people not willing to join ADF?
May be the elites here can tell me.
3.Why do i hate Aussie or her peoples?No Aussie have hit me so far.
Let me say one last time:I just put another side of the coin for
you to read.
4.Some Sg migrate there and very happy.Or some
or many of Aussie are living very happy there.Congra.
They are the elites staying in high class area without gansters
or low crimes.
But pl look at the lifes of men on the street.How they are affected by
corruptions,drugs problems,
Paperwork and red tape helping criminals: police,Andrea Petrie,January 16, 2007. -
Originally posted by lionnoisy:
Surely you don't have to be an elite to figure that one out, do you? Unlike Singapore, the ADF is an all-volunteer force. The US offers green cards for people who sign up as well. Do you think Singapore would be doing any different if they didn't have a conscript population to tap into?
I am wander why a big country like Aussie need so desperatly
for foreigners to defend her.
Are there any problems :low morale,low pay,mis-management,
corruptions,etc make Aussie people not willing to join ADF?
May be the elites here can tell me.Originally posted by lionnoisy:
I don't think you hate Australia, but while you claim to present one side of the coin, you avoid addressing other perspectives that other people put forward, and instead you just flood the thread with more cut-and-paste jobs. Looks like you're the one who needs to learn to look at the other side of the coin.
3.Why do i hate Aussie or her peoples?No Aussie have hit me so far.
Let me say one last time:I just put another side of the coin for
you to read.Originally posted by lionnoisy:
So because an area doesn't have high crime, it must be a high class area?
[b]4.Some Sg migrate there and very happy.Or some
or many of Aussie are living very happy there.Congra.
They are the elites staying in high class area without gansters
or low crimes.
As a student, I stayed in various neighbourhoods across a range of status levels. Coburg, where some gangland shootings took place a few years back, was down the street from where I lived for four years. I never had any trouble and I was happy there. I only moved out of that neighbourhood because the missus wanted to be near her parents, and I'm happy here too. -
Originally posted by lionnoisy:
Note what ged has said.
2.you are right.I am not a elite so i cant make it in Aussie.
Or i may have mentality of ''The Grapes which i cant pick are sour''.
I dunt qualified for Aussie PR ,neither.
[b]May be i ask my kids Join RAN & get Aussie PR!!.
Then they can sponsor me latee to be Aussie PR!!
I am wander why a big country like Aussie need so desperatly
for foreigners to defend her.
Are there any problems :low morale,low pay,mis-management,
corruptions,etc make Aussie people not willing to join ADF?
May be the elites here can tell me.
3.Why do i hate Aussie or her peoples?No Aussie have hit me so far.
Let me say one last time:I just put another side of the coin for
you to read.
4.Some Sg migrate there and very happy.Or some
or many of Aussie are living very happy there.Congra.
They are the elites staying in high class area without gansters
or low crimes.
But pl look at the lifes of men on the street.How they are affected by
corruptions,drugs problems,
Paperwork and red tape helping criminals: police,Andrea Petrie,January 16, 2007.
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And one more thing - do you really want to argue with people who actually live in Australia? You make yourself look silly if you 'try to present a side of the coin' which I might add - you have not seen before for yourself. -
Ok lah.Auusie is a heaven------for gangsters.
....I arranged to speak to Faisal in a house in Sydney's western suburbs,. to talk about the hundreds of shooting incidents that have rocked Sydney in the past few years and to gauge the availability of guns and weaponry on the streets....
---''Get yourself a gun''.
Everything is on offer from pistols and the highly prized Glocks, which are easy to conceal and can unload 17 rounds in a matter of seconds, to Uzi machine guns and hand grenades. The anti-tank missiles stolen from the Australian army were bought for about $15,000 each.....
As terrorism and organised crime become increasingly interconnected, Natalie O'Brien discovers how easy it is to procure a firearm on the streets of Sydney, * January 18, 2007.Natalie O'Brien is a senior writer at The Australian specialising in terrorism and crime.
2.Drive-by shooting in Sydney--regular basis?Three balaclava-clad men fired about 30 shots into Gas nightclub in Pitt Street about 1am as about 150 people partied inside...
---http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20246734-1702,00.html
Three balaclava-clad men fired about 30 shots into Gas nightclub in Pitt Street about 1am as about 150 people partied inside.
"Gun crime remains a problem today ... and the biggest problem we have got is that the government remains in denial about it."
The attack on the Sydney nightclub should act as a wake-up call, he said.
"I don't think I've ever seen gunfire sprayed across a building like that," he said, gesturing to the broken glass behind him.
"We see these sort of drive-by shootings right across Sydney on a regular basis.''
My God! 30 shots!! Like making a moive.
3.Oh Sorry.The guys here have never come across this scene.
So pl vertify my postings---all with links.
10% of robbery in Sydney come with guns!!Pl read this link in 2. -
Tan Kia Gan : Minister for National Development
Tan Kia Gan, then Minister for National Development, was investigated in August 1966 for attempting to help his close businessman friend Lim Tjin Hauw and his son William Lim to clinch the sale of Boeing aircraft to Malaysian Airways. He also acted as an intermediary for his brother-in-law in the sale of a tin mine to Lim. For this, he was given 70,000 shares worth $1 each. As the witnesses did not want to implicate him, Tan Kia Gan was administratively stripped of all his public appointments by the Government.
Wee Toon Boon : Minister of State for Environment
Wee Toon Boon, then Minster of State for Environment, was charged for corruption involving $839,023 in April 1975. Investigation revealed that Wee was involved with a developer Lauw Tjin Ho, then Chairman of Lauw and Sons Pte Ltd. He used his ministerial status to make representation to civil servants on behalf of Lauw. In return, he was rewarded with a bunglow, worth $532,000, galvanised roofing for his home worth $3,500, free air tickets for him and his family to Indonesia and bank overdrafts totalling $300,000 to speculate in shares. He was convicted and sentenced to 4 1/2 years' imprisonment and ordered to pay a penalty of $7,023. His jail sentence was reduced to 18 months after he successfully appealed against one of the 5 charges.
Teh Cheang Wan : Minister for National Development
Teh Cheang Wan, then Minister for National Development, was investigated in 1986 for accepting 2 bribes totalling $1 million from Hock Tat Development Pte Ltd and Ho Yeow Koon of Keck Seng Pte Ltd in 1981 and 1982 respectively. Hock Tat Development had paid Teh a gratification of $500,000 after he helped the company to retain a piece of land that was earmarked for acquisition by the Government. Ho Yeow Koon had also given a gratification of $500,000 to Teh for helping to buy over a piece of State land for private development. Teh committed suicide before he could be formally charged in court. He maintained till the end that he was innocent.
http://app.cpib.gov.sg/newcpib/user/default.aspx?pgID=237
Choy Hon Tim : the largest total bribe amount in CPIB's history
Choy Hon Tim, the former Director of the Electricity Department as well as the Deputy Chief Executive (Operations) of the Public Utilities Board (PUB) may not be the most senior public officer investigated by the Bureau, but his case involved the largest amount of bribes uncovered. He was investigated in 1995 following allegations that he had received kickbacks in return for awarding contracts to suppliers and contractors of PUB when he was a Chief Electrical Engineer of PUB. Choy was subsequently charged for obtaining gratifications totalling $13.85 million. He was convicted and sentenced to 14 years' jail term and the $13.85 million bribe obtained by him was forfeited to the State.
Yeo Seng Teck : Trade Development Board Chief
Yeo Seng Teck, then Chief Executive Officer of Trade Development Board was investigated in 1993 for cheating offences dating back to 1988. Investigation revealed that he had used forged document to cheat his principals (in this case, the organisations he was working for) involving the purchase of Chinese antiques worth about $2 million. He was subsequently charged and convicted for cheating offences and sentenced to 4 years' imprisonment.
Lim How Seng : Director of Singapore History Museum
Lim How Seng was charged for corruptly receiving two loans of $20,000 each from a private vendor named 3G Studio. In return, Lim recommended a contract for the production of a new 3-dimensional show at the museum to be awarded to 3G Studio. He was sentenced to 3 month's imprisonment and ordered to pay a $20,000 penalty.
Andrew Goh Keng Guan : Assistant Head, Talent Group, Economic Development Board.
Andrew Goh, the Assistant Head of Talent Group took bribes totalling $380,000 from seven Chinese nationals between February 1999 and June 2001. In return, he helped the 7 Chinese nationals by processing their application for permanent residency in Singapore. Andrew was sentenced to 26 months' imprisonment and the money he took from the seven Chinese nationals was forfeited.
Ong Beng Leong : Commanding Officer of Training Resources Management Centre
Ong Beng Leong, a Lieutenant Colonel in the SAF, was the Commanding Officer of Training Resource Management Centre (TRMC) from 1st April 1999 to 14th December 2001. During this period, he knowingly accepted fictitious quotes submitted to him by the sole-proprietor of Sin Hiaptat Construction. According to financial procedures, he should have sourced for quotations from other contractors. Ong had then gone on to award contracts to the Sin Hiaptat Construction. He was later charged and convicted for using false documents to deceive his principal (i.e. his employer in this case), an offence under section 6(c) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, Cap 241. He was sentenced to 1.5 months' imprisonment.
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More cut-and-paste jobs, lion? When are you actually going to come up with any thoughts of your own?
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many said Aussie Good.I have different views already and supported
by reports in Aussie Medias.
1.CrimesDev of perth (26 January at 01:14 PM),
---Open crime forum
crime rate in perth has come down a lot in last 2 years..Before it was always carjacking, ram raids and other crime...may have gone down 70% .atleast ..though i hear in eastern states, there is still lot of incidentsÂ…
Thursday, January 25, 2007
Gotcha with Gary Hughes
2.Legalised corruptions---anonymous donation or high pay
I prefer high pay in Sg.The income is transparent and if asset
higher than income,corruptions is suspected.Candy of Goulburn NSW (26 January at 01:12 PM)
So-called donations (some would call them bribes - but thatÂ’s against the law) to politicians and political parties is the corruption issue that affects us all.
Both the ALP and the LibNats have allowed the creation of founations through which corporations can launder secret political ‘donations’ and recently they both upped the ‘anonymous donation’ limit to $15,000. Just beacuse its legal doesn’t mean its not corrupt,and we mushrooms never know who is paying for what favours at our expense. This is hugely damaging to democracy and contributes to the distrust we have for most politicians.
Candy,
Certainly the use of both sides on politics of "foundations" to keep political donations secret make a joke of laws aimed at allowing full public scrutiny of such gifts.
Gary Hughes
Fri 26 Jan 07 (01:28pm)
So you see lah.Sg ban anonymous donation to political parties
and go on high pay.It works.
You read my postings in Military forums then you know.
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BWAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHHAHA!!!! Damn, lion, I thought you were funny before, but you've gone and outdone yourself this time.
Bad enough that you were doing mindless cut-and-paste jobs, but now you're getting snippets out of the comments section? You don't bother to read what you're pasting, do you? What's next, taking comments out of SGForums and presenting them as Singaporean government policy?
So, who's this Candy or Dev? Are they legislators, perhaps? Members of parliament? Media political commentators, even?
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Yeah, I've read your posts there - more cut-and-paste jobs. I ask again, when, oh when, are you going to have an original thought?Originally posted by lionnoisy:action=forum_display&forum_id=1164]Military forums then you know[/url]
