Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) Exhibition : Declassified – Corruption Matters 新加坡贪污调查局 : “贪污解密”展览

Singapore's first Prime Minister, Mr Lee Kuan Yew's zero tolerance of corruption 

This morning I went to The National Library with my husband to observe the opening ceremony of Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau's (CPIB) exhibition : Declassified – Corruption Matters.

Launched by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the exhibition provides an insight into Singapore’s battle against corruption.

Some greedy individuals exploited loopholes to line their pockets with ill-gotten gains.  They need to be exposed and brought to justice.

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and CPIB director Wong Hong Kuan touring the CPIB Exhibition located on the ground level of The National Library.

After PM Lee left, I spent about 2 hours going through the declassified case archives on display and a video on the investigations of some high profile cases. Some of them were complicated yet intriguing, salute to the investigation officers who were dedicated to the mission of fighting corruption.

According to the statistics revealed by CPIB, there is a spike in the number of complaints. In 2014, the bureau received 736 complaints; it received 877 complaints last year, almost 20% higher than in 2014.

123 uncompleted cases were brought forward from 2014. bringing the total number of cases handled by the bureau in 2015 to 678. It was the highest number of cases handled by CPIB in the past three years.

Seems like lots of complaints (and piling up) and uncompleted cases but not enough investigation officers to investigate or too many cases to handle so efficiency suffers.

CPIB Exhibition : Declassified – Corruption Matters will be held from 7 April to 22 May 2016 at the ground level of The National Library.


新加坡贪污调查局 : “贪污解密”展览 (4月7日至5月22日（星期天）)
国家图书馆一楼的户外展区。

今天上午我和先生去观看贪污调查局主办的“贪污解密”展览, 由新加坡总理李显龙主持开幕仪式。

我花了大约2个小时，阅读一些展出的解密贪污罪档案案记录和观看一个关于调查局人员们分享调查高知名度贪污案件的视频。这几起高知名度贪污案件十分吸引我兴趣, 一些事也让人震惊。

无论新加坡制度有多么严格，有些人还是会利用漏洞破坏规定。近几年新加坡还是出现了几起严重的腐败案，这是发现了处理了的，还有没有被发现的。新加坡贪污调查局必须要严肃认真地查处贪污、受贿、贿赂等腐败犯罪, 狡猾的犯罪分子被发现时必须接受法律的制裁。

贪污调查局展览会从今日起举行至5月22日（星期天），地点为国家图书馆一楼户外展区。贪污调查局获赠的建国总理李光耀国葬使用的礼炮炮弹弹壳也在此展出。

PCF Family Day 2012

Presentation of donation to PM Lee by Mr Seah Kian Peng, CEO of NTUC Fairprice

The annual PCF Family Day was held at the Singapore Zoo @Pavilion-by-the-Lake on 2nd September. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong was the guest-of-honour at this event. He presented the PCF-Polytechnic Study Awards of S$2,000 each to 49 deserving Polytechnic students.

Every year PAP Ministers and MPs of the five districts take the lead to raise funds for the underprivileged and those with financial and special needs.

Let's Keep Fit - performance by PCF Chua Chu Kang Branch

Mr Sam Tan Chin Siong, Senior Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and Mayor, Central Singapore District led the fundraising this year and his team's effort raised a total of more than S$660,000.

Chinese Fan dance - performance by PCF Punggol North Branch

The recipients of PCF Study Awards are selected based on their household income, good academic results and involvement in community services and/or CCA. The awards aim to ease their worries over tuition fees so that they can concentrate on their studies.

PM Lee being mobbed by the crowds!

Visitors to the Zoo were thrilled to see PM Lee and he was mobbed everywhere that he went! There were many requests for a photo with him and he did not disappoint.

PM Lee and some children feeding elephants Komali and Jati with fruits and carrots.

PM Lee stopping to have a photo with adorable orang utan Chomel and her babies Bino and Ishtar.

PM Lee and his colleagues watching the performances put up by children from the PCF kindergartens.

PM Lee sportingly doing the Marcarena dance.

Are PM and Minister Gan Kim Yong doing the Robot Dance? 

Everyone having a fun time dancing at Pavilion-by-the-Lake. :)

Now they are finally moving to the beat! Minister Gan Kim Yong was challenging MP Seah Kian Peng to see who can dance better.

Minister Gan Kim Yong speaking to the recipients of PCF Study Awards 2012 at the reception held at Forest Lodge.

Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean also dropped in to have a chat with the recipients and their families after an event.

The PCF Family Day 2012 at the Singapore Zoo was attended by an estimated crowd of 10,000 people.

PM Lee Hsien Loong officially opened KPE

PM Lee, Transport Minister Raymond Lim and LTA staff

South-east Asia's longest underground expressway was officially opened by PM Lee Hsien Loong a few hours ago. Kallang-Paya Lebar Expressway (KPE) is 12km-long with three-quarters of it underground.

Official Invite and commemorative KPE Book

PM Lee described this S$1.7 billion KPE as an impressive engineering feat. Building part of the tunnel underground involved navigating through a river and a canal, and weaving through high residential blocks. It posed plenty of challenges to the project team.

An exhibition at the beginning of the tunnel

Singapore has a limited amount of land, but its vehicle population has been growing rapidly. Roads already take up 12 per cent of our total land area. It costs 10 times more to build underground roads and 30 times more to maintain them than surface roads.

PM Lee admiring the art works of students

PM Lee explained why Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) is needed to manage traffic flow. If the Government ignores or fails to tackle congestion, Singaporeans may have no choice but to sit in a traffic jam twice a day, morning and evening, and sometimes even all day.

'The cost in time and inconvenience to workers and to the economy is enormous. We cannot afford to let this happen in Singapore.'

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eastcoastlife takes on the civil service of Singapore....

eastcoastlife with PM Lee Hsien Loong at a Istana Chinese New Year Tea Party

It has been 8 years of Hell, I've been waiting patiently for this day to come. Finally.... it's pay back time.

Am I not afraid that I would be sued, jailed, made a bankrupt? No.

I decide to give up my life and my son's. No point living in pain and suffering. Keeping quiet is akin to admitting I'm guilty, I'm to blame. Now, come what may. I'm not going to keep my mouth shut.

Ordinary Singaporeans suffer when civil servants care only about themselves - how to keep their jobs while trying to do as little work as possible, must have a salary comparable to the private sector and to further their careers at all costs.

They have 'one big family' policy within their ministries and departments. When there are problems, they band together as a 'family' to cover one another's backsides and worse, cover up.

A few years ago, a threatening note was found in my mailbox, with a warning "Shut up! Or you'll never see your son again".

On 1st February 2008, my son's Friendster and Hotmail accounts were hacked into. Contents in his Friendster account were replaced with pornographic photos and defamatory comments. Vulgar emails were sent to female friends. We made a police report and until this day, it is still pending investigation. Mas Selamat's escape is a good excuse.......

No holds barred - real names, real photos, real happenings on

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Read about the monkeys in our civil service.

Mas Selamat's Escape : Amazing 11 minutes!

civil servant mentality : Ventilation window with handle sawn off

I was at the Parliamentary meeting this afternoon to listen to DPM and Minister for Home Affairs Wong Kan Seng's presentation of the Committee of Inquiry Findings on Mas Selamat's Escape.

My jaws dropped as I listened to the full details of Mas Selamat's escape, I find it so incredible and dramatic, just like in a movie. 11 minutes was all it took for Mas Selamat to escape via the toilet's ventilation window, which was not secured properly.

When I first heard of Mas Selamat's escape on the news, I was extremely shocked. How could this happen in Singapore? Well... it did and Mas Selamat has been on the run for more than 7 weeks now.

I don't doubt the credibility of this report. We do have civil servants who are that stupid in our various ministries. People who know me, know I hate our civil service where its staff have a typical civil servant mentality. It's over-confidence that leads to such complacency.

At a time like this, I doubt DPM Wong is running away, ducking or covering up this serious matter. It would have a detrimental effect on the security of Singapore. DPM Wong assured Singaporeans that disciplinary actions would be taken against not only the junior officers but to go up the chain of command and include the supervisory and management levels as well. There is a proper process for disciplinary action under civil service and Police Force rules and this must take its course.

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I almost could not sit in the Parliament session this afternoon because I requested to "sit in the public gallery facing PM Lee Hsien Loong". A young Chinese Cisco guard shook his hands at his Malay colleague when he heard my request. The Malay Cisco guard then told me, "The public gallery is full."

I was stunned because I noticed that the the box holding Identity Cards was half empty. I asked him, "Are you sure? The whole gallery? What about the other side?" He replied,"All full."

When I started to protest, a senior Malay Parliament staff stepped forward and said,"May I look at your attire, Mdm? ...... Sorry, you cannot go in because you are not properly dressed. You are wearing track pants."

I argued that I had entered Parliament twice in this same pair of track pants but he brushed that aside as "probably they overlooked" and then ignored me.

Undaunted, I went to Peninsula Plaza to buy a pair of long pants, changed into them and went back to Parliament again. I was given a pass. When I entered the public gallery, I discovered that it was quite empty.

I'm annoyed that the Malay Cisco guard lied to me. If I wasn't allowed to pick and choose my seat, he could have told me so. If it is due to security reasons, he could have been frank with me. I made time to attend today's Parliament session but was denied entry for no apparent reason. This again is civil servant mentality at work.

10) What is the acceptable dress code? Visitors are requested to dress modestly and not to come in shorts, jeans, round-neck T-shirts or slippers.

Forgot to publish this but this was included in my email to Parliament Secretariat on 22/4/08, it has yet to reply :

A Japanese visitor who was sitting on my left, wore a golf T-shirt and a pair of golf pants with red lines running down the sides. Isn't that sports attire?

Eastcoastlife supports Singapore's bid for Youth Olympic Games 2010

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has selected Singapore as the one of two candidates in the final shortlist. The other bidding cities are Turin, Athens and Bangkok. The community is rallying behind our bid to host the first-ever Youth Olympic Games. Over 500 businesses and organisations have also thrown their support behind Singapore's bid.

Singapore is hoping the IOC will favour a smaller city that would otherwise never host an Olympiad. Moscow and Singapore emerged tops in governance and guarantees, finance, the Youth Olympic Village, competition venues and transport.
There will be some 3,500 athletes, from ages 14 to 18, competing in 26 sports events in the Youth Olympic Games.

At the same time, these athletes who come from very different cultures, speak different languages but share a love of sports will be taking part in education and cultural programmes. One of the underlying themes of the Olympic movement is that : Athletes can be adversaries on the field, but friends in life.

A ground breaking ceremony was held on 31st January 2008 to mark the start of construction works for the Youth Olympic Village. It was officiated by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The US$423 million (S$500 - 600 million) project will be completed in February 2010, half a year before the start of the inaugural Youth Olympic Game.

PM Lee Hsien Loong has given a very strong endorsement for Singapore's bid for YOG 2010

"We are a young nation and a small city state, but we have built a trusted brand name internationally as a reliable partner, able to get things done, and deliver on what we promise. And for this first Youth Olympic Games, I am confident that we can deliver a high-quality, memorable event that will celebrate the spirit of the Games, strengthen the Olympic movement, leave a lasting impact on young people around the world, and be a fabulous launch for our University Town."

Singapore is home to 4.5 million people. A huge expatriate population works for the 7,000 multinational companies and home-grown enterprises in this modern, multi-cultural and cosmopolitan city. It's a vibrant economic and financial powerhouse in Southeast Asia.

It is critical to get the whole country excited about it. Car decals and stickers will be distributed island-wide as part of the 'I Support Singapore 2010' campaign.

Singaporeans can pen their support at http://www.singapore2010.sg