Tuesday #sgroundup: Singapore blogger's latest moves are 'very grave aggravation': PM Lee's lawyer
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Singapore blogger's latest moves are 'very grave aggravation': PM Lee's lawyer
Singapore blogger Roy Ngerng's refusal to remove a contentious YouTube video as well as two emails he sent out in which his contentious blogposts were republished amounted to "very grave aggravation", said lawyers acting for PM Lee Hsien Loong on Tuesday.
In his response through his own lawyer M Ravi on Tuesday at 1230pm, Ngerng said his video and other posts "were not intended to impy that there is any truth in the criminal misappropriation allegation." He also proposed to offer S$5,000 in damages to PM Lee.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/blogger-roy-ngerng-takes-down-post-after-pm-lee-letter-084001258.html
PAP MP Inderjit Singh confronts Singapore's hard truths in wide-ranging Facebook post
The disconnect between Singapore’s wealth and citizens’ well-being, the importing of talent, the complacency and elitism in the top ranks of civil servants, and the national identity for Singapore’s young people – these were the issues raised by Ang Mo Kio Member of Parliament (MP) Inderjit Singh in a Facebook post Monday night.
Singh noted that after the general election in 2011, the government got a very clear signal from Singaporeans about the issues that affected them most and the government spent considerable time fixing these problems. The problems themselves were “created as a result of a decade long series of policy misjudgment linked to its ‘growth at all cost’ economic strategy”, he wrote, elaborating at length his views on where the government still needs to improve.
Filipino event scrapped in Singapore after drawing abuse
A Philippine independence day celebration in Singapore has been cancelled, organisers said Tuesday, after plans for a public event generated online abuse and threats against Filipinos in the city-state.
"In view of all considerations in the search for equivalent suitable venues, the PIDC 2014 deemed it is best to cancel the event," the Pilipino Independence Day Council (PIDC) said in a statement sent to AFP.
Previously, local police said the PIDC had withdrawn its application to hold its event at the area along the busy Orchard Road shopping belt after it turned down police suggestions of alternative locations, citing crowd capacity limitations.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/filipino-event-scrapped-singapore-drawing-abuse-074140038.html
S. Korea's Park says family 'root cause' of ferry tragedy
South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on Tuesday denounced fugitive members of the ship-owning family linked to last month's ferry disaster, calling them the "root cause" of the tragedy that claimed around 300 lives.
The government has offered a half-million dollar reward for information leading to the arrest of Yoo Byung-Eun, patriarch of the family behind Chonghaejin Marine Co.
Chonghaejin owned and operated the 6,825-tonne Sewol ferry that capsized and sank on April 16 with hundreds of high school students on board.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/koreas-park-says-family-root-cause-ferry-tragedy-062139863.html
Malaysia, UK firm release satellite data on missing MH370
Malaysia's government and British satellite firm Inmarsat on Tuesday released the data used to determine the path of missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, responding to mounting calls from passengers' relatives for greater transparency.
The data from satellite communications with the plane, which runs to 47 pages in a report prepared by Inmarsat, features hourly "handshakes" - or network log-on confirmations - after the aircraft disappeared from civilian radar screens on March 8.
Families of passengers are hoping that opening up the data to analysis by a wider range of experts can help verify the plane's last location, nearly three months after the Boeing 777 with 239 passengers and crew disappeared.
