Comments on: President Ong’s interview with Asiaweek – revisited

By: 新加坡民主转型：总统普选，鹿死谁手？ « 新国志

新加坡民主转型：总统普选，鹿死谁手？ « 新国志 — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:24:12 +0000

[...] 所以陈庆炎如果想争取一些中间选票与反对党的选票，完全可以拿王鼎昌为例，证明出身于执政党的精英当选总统后，同样可以对政府进行有效监督。不过陈庆炎是一个倔强的人，夸赞王鼎昌的话不太可能从他嘴里说出。1986年王鼎昌负责全国职工总会（NTUC）时，曾经批准了一次罢工，在亚洲周刊（Asia Week）采访时，王提到这次罢工让贸工部的人气急败坏，当时的贸工部长正是陈庆炎博士。 [...]

By: A complicated three-horse presidential race?

A complicated three-horse presidential race? — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 12:28:24 +0000

[...] Ong and Cheng Bock share a similarity in the sense that both possess an independent streak, the former sanctioning a strike in 1986, the first in a [...]

By: Zoroukah – Unprecedented Presidency

Zoroukah – Unprecedented Presidency — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 11:51:11 +0000

[...] level best to hold the ruling party accountable for what goes into and out of the reserves. His immortal words, “If you ask me to protect the reserves, then you’ve got to tell me what I’m supposed to [...]

By: Unprecedented Presidency | The Online Citizen

Unprecedented Presidency | The Online Citizen — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 02:14:12 +0000

By: dopplerganger

dopplerganger — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:59:10 +0000

Everything that is done is done to protect the PAP’s power over the honeypots of the country-those institutions which make wealth for the Nation. So when you complain that the Ministers and President have mockingly large salaries, the PAP present you with a Salary Review Committee whose members are clones of themselves but not actual PAP members. When you think that a good President can act as a bulwark against the greed of the PAP members, Jayakumar sprank up to remind you that he still has to toe the Law as promulgated by the PAP.My fellow citizens, recall that one wrong word from you will send you to a cell without trial or will have you face a judge who is the bulldog of the PAP. In other words you are tightly watched and tightly gagged. Over the 50 years PAP and their relatives and friends have become managers of the wealth producing State Institutions making magnificent money as salaries and fees. They will not allow any of you to stray inside and witness and disrupt what a fortune producing machinery they have wrought. So understand that Review Committee and the elected President are created to ensure a secure environment for the Ruling Party to continue the status quo at the honey pots of the country. Real change will only come when we as a Society are willing to lose our lives and livelihoods like in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya. Mere shuffling with the existing systems just shuffles how the ISD will deal with you and how the judges will deal with your indiscretions.

When we as a Society are confronted with many many more cardbox collecting citizens in the midst of glittering towers of wealth, then you will have to take the requisite action, for then you will have lost everything.

Don’t put much hope in the Ministerial and Presidential salaries review committee, nor even in the elected President. These are battlements to safeguard the hold that the Ruling Party and its cohort have on the system of fee-taking for managing the country’s wealth producing assets. Suharto’s Indonesia used to own the assets outright. Here the rule of law necessitates a different game plan.

By: Zoroukah – Picking up where Ong Teng Cheong left off

Zoroukah – Picking up where Ong Teng Cheong left off — Sun, 29 May 2011 05:30:59 +0000

[...] late President Ong Teng Cheong said in an interview, “Even in my last year as president, I was still not being informed about some ministerial [...]

By: Picking up where Ong Teng Cheong left off | The Online Citizen

Picking up where Ong Teng Cheong left off | The Online Citizen — Sun, 29 May 2011 03:24:09 +0000

[...] late President Ong Teng Cheong said in an interview, “Even in my last year as president, I was still not being informed about some ministerial [...]

By: Leong Sze Hian » State funeral for truly exceptional contributors

Leong Sze Hian » State funeral for truly exceptional contributors — Mon, 16 May 2011 05:22:04 +0000

[...] re-publish former President Ong Teng Cheong’s interview with AsiaWeek (10 March 2000) where he revealed the obstacles he faced when he asked for the copies of the [...]

By: Frog

Frog — Thu, 12 May 2011 03:38:03 +0000

Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he is doing – where there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger; which he knows he was meant and made to do.

By: Yong

Yong — Sun, 08 May 2011 10:59:02 +0000

What ever will be have been! The S’pore govt. as compared to say, the neigbouring ones defintely have very much less misgivings. Many of us would tend to only compare oneself with the better. “I used to complain about my shoes until the day I saw a man without a foot!”

By: james

james — Sat, 07 May 2011 14:12:16 +0000

i love you sir. rest in peace.

By: singaporeiloveu

singaporeiloveu — Thu, 05 May 2011 10:47:07 +0000

Hopefully the coming Presidential Election later this year, we will have one as upright as Mr Ong.

By: Blurking

Blurking — Thu, 05 May 2011 06:54:29 +0000

We need real men like Mr Ong in the parliament to fight for our rights. Do not give PAP a blank cheque to run our lives. We need another voice. Vote for the opposition.

By: Vianna

Vianna — Mon, 02 May 2011 05:10:55 +0000

Mr Ong, I hold u with high regards n respect. You will be someone that my family n children will always remember n learn about.
Thank you for all your hard work in the union n in Kim keat constituency back then.

By: GGHF

GGHF — Sun, 16 May 2010 05:36:49 +0000

If let say mr tan kin lian become the next president then it will be good as he can do more checks on the government (no matter who is the government, pap. rp, sdo…) which i feel is fair to all singaporean.

hope if mr tan really br president he will do all the necessary checks.

By: ben

ben — Sat, 15 May 2010 16:16:00 +0000

these people dont worry much about karmas, if they know karma is real, they wont have done so much.

they may have consulted many spiritual masters and got what they needed, but for what they had done, especially to innocence, citizens etc; they will start paying once they RIP.

By: State funeral for truly exceptional contributors | The Online Citizen

State funeral for truly exceptional contributors | The Online Citizen — Sat, 15 May 2010 09:11:02 +0000

[...] re-publish former President Ong Teng Cheong’s interview with AsiaWeek (10 March 2000) where he revealed the obstacles he faced when he asked for the copies of the [...]

By: Dr WHO

Dr WHO — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:31:31 +0000

The good, bad and ugly – your pick on the president’s performance.

Death is not at option but one thing for sure – you cannot bring your houses or the million dollars along, so sharing is the key to doing one’s presidential duties from the people’s point of view – so please start donating to others and stop hoarding wealth.

By: doctorwho

doctorwho — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 13:35:07 +0000

why they keep holding on to the power?

Is it too many skeletons in the closet, as high as a Mt Faber O.o

By: Edward

Edward — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:29:15 +0000

#41) smallvice585
‘ It is our patriotic duty to ensure all descendants of Lee Kuan Yew are infertile.’

#47) dweller
‘Deep down …they know that they did WRONG to OTC……karma will come.’
…………………………………………………………………….

To smallvice585. Cool down. This is a big curse. LKY is a great believer of Confucius and there were rumours in the past that he consulted the Buddhist abbot before making big decisions. He should know about karma. Sad…many things had happened.