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- Subject: SG: NEWS, #15, 19-21 Dec 92 (fwd)
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- Date: 23-Dec-1992 12:42pm EST
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- To: Southeast ASia Listers ( _MX%"SEASIA-L@MSU.EDU" )
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- From: Kent Mulliner Dept: Library
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- Subject: SG: NEWS, #15, 19-21 Dec 92 (fwd)
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- Forwarded from Singapore International foundation - gopher,
- with permission.
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- Singapore Daze
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- A twice weekly bulletin featuring local news snippets from
- Singapore publications. Issue #15: 19-21 Dec 1992
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- 1. >PAP wins By-election<
- 2. >Entrepreneurs (again!)<
- 3. >14 New Schools to be built in 11 new towns<
- 4. >Buzzwords of 1992<
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- 1. >73% win for PM Goh<
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- (Sun Times 20 Dec) "The PAP took 72.9% of the 67 126 valid votes,
- a percentage Mr Goh described as a "resounding endorsement" of
- his policies and his leadership. Of the other three contenders,
- The SDP took the largest share, managing 24.5%. NSP took 1.4% and
- SJP 1.1%.
-
- Addressing PAP supporters at the Counting Centre in Tao Non
- School in English, Malay, Hokkien and Mandarin early Sunday
- morning, PM Goh said "I said that I have confidence in the
- judgement of Marine Parade residents. I asked for your solid
- support, you gave me your resounding endorsement. The PAP
- campaign which saw SM Lee, DPM Ong and other heavyweight
- ministers take to its rally stage was directed mainly at SDP.
- Their message to voters: do not cut down the PM's stature with
- a lower level of support.
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- Before the counting started, Mr Ashleigh Seow told reporters that
- he would be happy if his team took 12 to 15% of the 77% which the
- PAP obtained in last years General Election...
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- BG Yeo: Singaporeans should beware of following the practice of
- some western countries where politicians were required to be good
- showmen. Good leadership often required abilities which did not
- coincide with being able to put up dramatic performances on
- stage. Speaking at the press conference after the results were
- announced, he said that he was glad that the Marine Parade GRC
- had not fallen for the sound and fury of the opposition campaign.
- During the nine day campaign, the opposition had put on lively
- rallies which were full of drama and theatrics, he noted. As the
- co-ordinator of the PAP's campaign, he had felt pressure to do
- more stage management. But he was worried that in a television
- age, Singapore might be moving in the direction of the west,
- where voters expected politicians to be good showmen. This would
- not be good for the country.
-
- 2. >Sim Wong Hoo of Creative technology on Entrepreneurs<
-
- BT 19 Dec, on why Singaporeans are more subdued compared to the
- Hong Kong and Taiwanese business men. "I think everyone has to
- be blamed, starting from the top going right down to the
- family...and of course the government, because it wants security,
- also builds societies that way, a lot of things being planned
- for, thought out for you. Therefore people lack the risk taking
- attitude. Give them a set of guidelines, they will take and run
- with it. If you say "hey, you are on your own", they are lost.
- And nobody thinks that its something we should break away from...
- We have to question every rule we have and ask ourselves, is it
- really required? Are our people mature enough to take on this,
- to be slightly infected by the so called 'decadent Western
- culture?' Preserving Asian values, what does this mean? Wife
- beating and that kind of thing, Confucianism? There is good and
- bad in every culture, so in moving forward we should take the
- good of every culture, and that's it.
-
- And if it is that bad, should we isolate our people from it? or
- should we expose our people to it so that we can develop the
- strength to fight it? It is very important. You isolate them,
- they go out and cannot adopt to the whole new world out there.
- So I think that kind of paternalism, trying to keep them wrapped
- up does not help...The main issue should be how to create that
- kind of environment. Give people more freedom of thought, provoke
- them, make them think more, from Primary school. Let there be
- more newspapers, more TV stations lesser controls..."
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- 3. >New Schools<
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- ST 19 Dec 14 new schools will be built over the next three years
- to cater to he needs of new residents who have moved there. These
- new school, located in areas like AMK, Bukit Bartok, Choa Chu
- Kang, Tampines and Yishun are part of the Governments's $900
- million plan to build, rebuild, upgrade secondary schools over
- the next three to five years. The building plan is in line with
- the MOE's plans to provide every child with 10 years of basic
- education from 1994.
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- From next year, the number of students entering secondary schools
- will go up from 40000 to 60000
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- 5. >Buzz words of 1992<
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- (compiled by SIFlash) Road Bullies, globalise, regionalise,
- internationalise, censorship, Western decadence, Amy Yip, Asian
- values, Morality surveys, You are what you eat!, lymphoma,
- upgrading, consultative, Zoe Tay, schools ranking, indie bands,
- GDP estimates, single mothers, middle income, COE.
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- Received: 23-Dec-1992 12:43pm
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