PRC family refused to alight from bus; SBS paid for a cab to send them home
January 18th, 2010 | 
Author: Written by Our Correspondent
A PRC couple together with a 90 year old granny, a female friend and a maid boarded a SBS bus without wheelchair accessibility at Mandai and was told by the bus captain that they were not allowed to bring the wheelchair up the bus due to safety reasons. However, they insisted on doing so and sat on the bus for 6 hours, refusing to leave!
The bus captain has no choice but to stop the bus along the road and after informing the SBS’s headquarters, transferred the other passengers alread aboard to another bus, but still the PRC family did not alight from the bus.
The police were alerted to the scene to settle the dispute to no avail. The five of them continued to cry, wail and scream on the bus that they want to go home.
They kept complaining to the policemen:
“We want to go home! We haven’t had lunch yet or gone to the loo! There are no buses now to go back, what should we do?”
When interviewed by Lianhe Wanbao, 48 year old Madam Lin who worked in the media industry said angrily:
“The bus did not put out any sign that forbid wheelchairs to be brought up and we did not commit any crime. So why was the bus stopped by the road and refused to fetch us home?”
It is not revealed if Madam Lin is a new citizen, PR or foreigner, but since the couple are together with a maid, it is likely that they are PRs or new citizens living here in Singapore.
Madam Lin eventually requested SBS to call a cab to send them home which it did by arranging a Maxi Cab for them free of charge which ended the 5 hour fiasco.
This is the second time within a week that PRCs found themselves mired in controversy due to their public behavior which does not quite fit into the usual social etiquette of Singaporeans.
Two days ago, Shin Min Daily published an article about an unruly PRC lady customer who walked off without paying her fare upon calling a cab and even lodged a police report against the taxi-driver who tried to ask her to pay up. (read article here)
She subsequently made a formal complaint to the taxi company which terminated the services of the driver a few days later.
On 16 January 2010, we reported the story of a PRC woman staging a solo “protest” at the Ministry of Education Headquarters at Buona Vista for the last two days to demand that MOE transfer her child to a top primary school in Singapore.
Though MOE has already offered to place her child in another school in the vicinity she lives in, but she continues to insist that she be given a place in the school of her choice.
She was reported to be in the MOE building till 12 midnight last night and only left after the police threatened her with arrest if she continues to loiter in a government building. (read article here)
According to the latest update from our source:
“The saga continues today too! Still hanging around with child in tow!!”
Due to the ruling party’s liberal immigration policies, foreigners now make up 36 per cent of Singapore’s population with the significant proportion coming from mainland China.
Singapore’s strongman Lee Kuan Yew said in a recent interview with The National Geographic magazine that it is a “good thing” for Singapore to welcome so many Chinese immigrants as they are more “hard-driving” and “hard-striving”.
For once, Lee’s “prediction” is accurate: they are indeed more “hard-driving” than Singaporeans as the above examples have shown.
News source: Lianhe Wanbao
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It would be interesting to write a book on the stories of PRC people in Singapore. It will surely sell like hot cake and could also be interesting research materials for sociologists, psychologists, political scientists and anthropologists.
MM Lee should be glad that Singaporeans are not so “hard-driving”. If every Singaporean is as “hard-driving”, there will mess street protests every other week, and how can our police cope?
Soon these ‘new citizen’ scum will drive so hard they will drive PAP out!!
Why must we tolerate these nitwits? Hard driving indeed.
Spore PAP got no guts lah! You should see what USA did to China student, Haisong Jiang or Jiang Hai Song, on student visa at Rutgers University was arrested & charged by USA for breaching security at Newark Airport NYC after the Northwest Airlines. Stupid China man crossed the security line without any clearance just to kiss China girlfriend and USA CANNOT forgive him for that & charged him in court. The Americans are cheering the decision.
Now will Spore do that?
Here is the article:
http://www.northjersey.com/news/Arrest_of_man_who_breached_security_at_Newark_airport_is_applauded.html
I’m loving it!
I have also encountered many aggressive Indian FTs, especially in some condo with many Indians such as Costa Rhu. Damn noisy and inconsiderate!
Such policies “no sweat” to LKY as he and his gang do not have to suffer the consequences.
VOTE PAP OUT! This is the kind of top class talent brought in Singapore. veri soon, we will have our new citizen MP.
The honeymoon is over. Soon the Men in White will realize that it is mistake bringing in all these PRCs because unlike Singaporeans (who are like sheep) they will not take lying down the antics of the government. They will be more vociferous, more demanding and likely to agitate for their rights. They will find that the PAP is even more authoritarian than the Communists. However the PAP will only admit that they made a mistake after 30 years. Of course, the admission will made by a 125 year old LKY after he twice arose from the dead!
I really pity the old granny. Not sure if she is a local granny or not but to to subject the old lady to prolonged hours outside, without food and water, is really a bad bad thing to do.
One wonder what this PRC lady was really up to? Faulting the bus company for technicality such as “The bus did not put out any sign that forbid wheelchairs…..and refused to fetch us home?” and creating a scene, very clearly without any copnsiderations to the old folk, was she trying to prove to people here that she is more equal than others?
A stupid act! Senseless and mindless. There are other avenues to complain after sending the 90-year old granny home, safe and with food.
Idiotic!
Bus driver should just have driven to the interchange, locked the bus and gone for his break.
In my life journey since the 196o’s…this is the first time I see such nonsense in Singapore.
Wow, together with the taxi incident, the past month back stories abt PRC Cook and dead fishes in Clark Quay Restuarant……PAPe…you really Screew up this time…BIG Time….
New Citizens, PRs….F/ts…..sign !
Oldman time is almost up.
the maker is awaiting already.
maybe pap should send a delegation to china to learn from the masters -CCP, how they deal with these “spiky” PRCs.
pap wants more immigrants, but be careful what they wished for may not be what they want. LOL!
All the tips and tricks they would use just to get a free ride home. Well done “hard-driven” PRCs.
I thought with the passing of the older generation we would see less of the anti-social behaviors like clearing the throats and spitting; picking the noses or hunching and playing or scratching the toes in public. How wrong!
The FTs do all these and worse, rush for seats in the MRT trains and buses, ignoring the elderly, pregnant ladies and the very young. They dress shabbily, talk loudly and continually in their own lingo on the trains and in the buses to the annoyance of some commuters. Go to Little India or Geylang or Golden Mile Shopping Centre.
Any of our Minister gone to these places unaccompanied and see the situation for themselves firsthand?
Who do we blame? Not these FTs of course. We blame the government for opening the floodgates.
But who should we ultimately blame? OURSELVES OF COURSE !!!!
We voted in the government and we deserve all these incompetence. To rub salt into the wound, they pay themselves shamelessly high and scold us when we point out these excesses!!!!
Let us resolve to get rid of the PAP when election time comes. SINGAPOREANS DO NOT WAIVE. DO WHAT IS RIGHT THIS TIME AROUND.
Actually, I admire their assertiveness.
If only half of Singaporeans are like them,
we wouldn’t be pushed around by you know who
The law has been amended to give the police more power to disperse or arrest people who stage public protest. Why in this case the police did nothing and allowed the foreigners to hijack the public bus for 5 hours? I wonder if Dr Chee does the same trick, will he have 5 hours and a free taxis ride?
Perhaps SPF should charge them for wasting tax payer’s resources?
They think they are in US or China..no sign means can do anything. In SG, we can only do things if there are proper signages.
Wonderful story !
I earnestly hope that all PRC becomes new citizens.
I really can’t wait any longer, please when is the election ?
Seriously, I will VOTE FOR PAP TO WIN so that all these “talented people” will be our brothers and sisters.
very unconsiderate PRC family. they think they own the bus and did not care about other passengers who are also taking the bus.
Just because of your own benefit, it cause many other passengers to suffer and not able to reach their destination on time.
I strongly disagree with the way the bus company resolve this issue. why gave them a free cab ride since they create unncessary nusiance and inconvenience to the bus services. The other affected passengers should also deserve a free cab ride.
Even if there no signage on no wheelchair allowed, however any instruction from the bus captain is sufficient.
SBS company should give them a free ride to the POLICE STATION or perhap IMH.
Where aren’t these people charged with obstruction of public roads/transport?!
If I were one of the passengers whose journeys were delayed due to this family, I would have screwed the sh** out of them on the spot.
I hope more of such incidents involving PRCs happen.
Let PAP get a taste of how hard-driving they are.
Must a an act put up by those “MIW” to further show off what PRC can do
I have friends working as underwriters in one of the biggest insurance companies here and they said that PRCs were making to the top of the list of most aggressive, demanding and RUDE clients!
This PRC family should be shamed for inconveniencing the other passengers and yet they got off scot-free with free maxi-cab! This is pandering of the worst kind!
Unlike the docile Singaporeans who can take anything from PAP in the backside for 40 years, these PRC are not afraid to protest till they get their way. They have nothing to lose! One day PAP will have them blow up in their face for welcoming so many of them into Singapore.
What is the bid deal of calling a maxi-cab to send a family of 5 home including a 90 years old nanny free of charge. Do you people remember. Our national airline fixed a plane with complete emergency medical facilities in few hours and then flied the old gecko all the way back to Singapore within a day just because she did not get priority in the hospital in London for her treatment.
Please, have a sense of proportion.
That makes another bus driver who hate PAP to the core. Let’s keep track of these kind of trend as more stat boards or govt related companies will be placed under stress with lousy and whiny foreigners. We hope all civil servants who faced this kind of stress will turn around and support alternative parties.
Well the PRC woman and company should be given a ‘Tak Boleh Tahan’ T-shirt. Of course they learn this from the SDP which is trying to get Singaporeans to take up ‘Civil Disobedience’ (CD). You get a small sample and you cannot take it!
The PRCs and Indians maintain the population ratio. So like it or not it is going to happen. For Singapore to prosper we need quality and not quantity.
The news said 15% salary hike for bus people.
I assume a Fare Hike is not on the way.
I may be joking.
@btan,
Because Singaporeans choose to be sheep to be led by few lions in the wolve’s skins. Singaporeans only have themselves to be blamed
WOW . Even the PRs are helping us to whack PAP . Freak election will be coming soon.
@enuff,
chee will defintely have a free ride, to the prisons.
This is typical behaviour. Once in Shanghai, I saw a couple dressed in Pajamas flinging themselves against a public bus and stopping the bus from moving off. The bus was jam packed with passengers and some of them came down and quarrelled with the couple, who were shouting and taking turns blocking the bus. This did not stop even when a police car came and they were still rattling away in Shanghainese. I did not stay to find out how it ended but such charades are common. Take a lift, stand in the middle and you will get both ears blasted by two Shanghainese shouting through you. Hard driving indeed!
I realise that Singapore has become a country not for Singaporeans but more for PRC, Indians and the so called foreign talents.
I really hate the climate of having so many of them on our soils and instead of accomodating to our lifestyle, we now have to adapt to their lifestyle else like the above case, they will scream and shout.
I feel unsafe now walking in Singapore streets as sometimes, I will see a number of these foreign workers whose behavior do not conform to our norms at all. They can anyhow scream and shout, and when a group of them see a pretty girl alone they wiil try to bully her by walking towards her, seems like threatening her. I have to share MRT jamed and choked with more and more foreigners!
I feel sad that due to the so called pursuit of economic competitiveness, we have to welcome more foreigners to our soils. I am not surprised if we true blue Singaporeans become marginalized in times to come when more and more priorites are given to these foreigners in housing and jobs.
Singapore is no longer a land I love. Due to economic pursuit, we have now to live with foreigners we do not want to have on our land, due to this so called reason of making our country better all in the long run. Now I do not have much loyalty to Singapore as most Singaporeans since as a true blue Singaporean who is bred on this soil, I am not welcome as compared to those foreign talents who can bring wealth to our country.
To the government party, I really hope that you can listen to true blue Singaporeans. Like many Singaporeans, we do not like foreigners and hence it is really sad that policies are pan out to welcome these foreigners and now we have to compete with them for ultities, housing, employments right on our home ground!
Next time when we see such incidents, we must unite and stand up for our countrymen. Drown them with our voices. If we don’t speak up for our people in public against these violinet leeches, who will? PAP members?
I really find the policies of the ruling party in the recent years not really very sensitive to the local populace.
Not doubt the ruling party was very good in the past but the complexities of living as a common Singaporean today cannot be easily solved by a few scholars, crafting policies in their ivory towers as assistant directors, deputy directors, senior associates or in whatever high sounding titles they assume.
I am really finding it more and more stressed living in Singapore. And I am finding it more and more sad. Singaporeans have no choice when the ruling party said accept the foreigner talents, build the IRs, reformat the race classification all for economic competitiveness as we are the ones who voted for this party.
I would love to see them riot against MIW when they don’t get what they want!!!
MIW threw the ever so compliant S’poreans in favour of these people. Little do MIW know how difficult their beloved foreign “talent” can be.
Judging from ground sentiments as well as the posting in the cyberworld, more and more Singaporeans are getting disgruntled of the policies these days.
We must bear in mind that the ruling government is still decided by the majority of the polls. Thus if each of us who is unhappy with one’s party policies and do not do anything concrete come election day, we will remain disgruntled for many years and even decade.
The choice is up to us ultimately.
The Lees thought that PRC can give them votes, but then trouble is what they get now, hahaha.
If they want to be so unruly, then bloody kick them out. We are law abiding citizens here.
pRC ppl will create more problems for us.
Here is only a sample of immigration rorting of de-facto relationships-based visa application to get past Australian immigration laws by PRCs.
Wondered how many among them here came into Singapore on false unsubstantiated qualifications and maybe not even working in professions once they got in.
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/MRTA/2000/6334.html?query=de%20facto%20relationship%20%20%20visa
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/MRTA/2009/828.html?query=de%20facto%20relationship%20%20%20visa
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/MRTA/2009/356.html?query=de%20facto%20relationship%20%20%20visa
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/MRTA/2008/405.html?query=de%20facto%20relationship%20%20%20visa
http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/MRTA/2003/7852.html?query=de%20facto%20relationship%20%20%20visa
All these real legal cases actually failed on appeals through the court which examined their evidence of claims.
Shouldn’t these people be hauled to the police station for disorderly behaviour? If they were Singaporeans, they would have been arrested immediately by the police.
What the hell is wrong with the police these days? Only know how to bully Singaporeans? Police, shame on you!
I only wish all Singaporeans are like that. We Singaporeans have been giving the pap leegime a very easy run. So easy that they have now forgotten us.
Any Tom, Dick or Monkey is better than yayaPAPaya! Vote for Change! Vote for Tim, Dick or Monkey!
Er, any comment from the Bus company?
It is not revealed if Madam Lin is a new citizen, PR or foreigner, but since the couple are together with a maid, it is likely that they are PRs or new citizens living here in Singapore.
Why can’t they be old citizen with chinese accent?
er what if it was a 90 year old local grand ma vs a china bus driver, what would the story be then?
Being made to be like sheep their whole life, silly Singaporeans do not have the faintest idea of being assertive. These foreign people from outside sure can teach us to be more assertive.
Obviously the bus company knows it is at fault by taking people for granted by not putting a sign on the bus. It’s not the drivers’s fault either, because if the driver let them travel to their destination, he’ll be punished for it for failing to follow instructions.
if they were singaporeans, we can bet your last dollar that the singapore foolish force will have them arrested for disorderly behaviour.
when is the election har?
although these PRC may create some inconvenience for others, but what i think they are demanding for is right, public transport companies should provide easy access to handicaps or elderly.
another thing is i hope TR should provide a report not just focusing on the fact of these people are PRCs (which i sense an agenda to create more unhappiness towards them among singaporeans). TR could have commented on the inadequancy of the public transport service to the disabled, elderly here.
It seems that the PRC nationals that PAP let in are no sheeps, they are the lions.
soon this island will be run by a bunch of men in white and their servile pets from China.
They are stupid
Are singapore the PRC playground, the next time maybe the MRT line can almost be the next playground also. What next….
For all you know, it may just be the tip of the iceberg. Soon it will be a everyday occurence of all kinds. May God bless Singapore
What to do! Is better give in to them before they go crazy. I recently read a article, a PRC chop cut his girl friend head and carry it into the public bus in Canada.
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Very sad this is really happening in our Modern Singapore and soon when we locals really wake up, we find we have to kowtow to them, and they are running our country. Please tell me where is the Rule of Law and Equality in the eyes of the Rule of Law, and why must these PRCs receive VIP treatment….something is very wrong in our Modern Singapore and we as local born regardsless of races, must right this wrong, so many wrongs and special treatments for these PRCs which I equate to the Malays-Bumiputras in Malaysia (special treatment since the introduction of NEP and they continue receiving special treatment despite the expiry of the NEP).
Regards
Andrew Chuah
Big Deal . . . .
Behaving like kids.
So what. An isolated event or non-event blown up to disproportionate size. LOL!
Life goes on.
We are not faced with churches being fire-bombed? One foreigner ignite a story abt PRC and the rest of the idiots jumped in like sheep to the slaughter. Wake up lah!
Go for big stories like locals contracting AIDs, being hammered by Ah Longs, shunning manual jobs, teenagers making love on the trains, ingrates abandoning their elderly parents in homes, etc.
Real stupid people around. No wonder they stick together talking cock all day long at TR.
Lol! I’m so happy. What fantastic news! Believe me, the PAP will not regret, until the elections are over. After that, probably they will go about getting PRC’s arrested and so on. But at least the public are aware of these PRC’s obnoxious behavior. I do admire the guts of these PRC’s. If only Singaporeans had half of their guts.
Where do these PRCs learn how to make demands?
Indeed,we are more seemingly more suppressed than even communists who hail form CHINA?
Women! All China women!!
Please stop marrying them crazy ones… pls….
We must support their arch-nemesis a.k.a. the taxi-driver uncle!
What is her problem?! Does she think that the Singapore owes her a living?! Doesn’t she know that only WAB buses can accommodate wheelchair passengers? And does the mother think that her child can enter any school she likes??
mm lee must really wake up and see for himself the kind of uncouth behaviour he is encouraging.
Singapore is slowly turning into a country invaded by hordes of PRC corrupt officials, whores, spoilt dragon sons and daughters, etc.
LKY has said before that it will take another generation to make Singaporeans a more affluent civil society. With so much social ills imported from PRC, it will take several generations now.
So much for Chinese foreign talent.
Govt thought that the new citizens will 感恩 and vote for them. Eventually, they will find out that the new citizens are not the kind that as tame as original Singaporean and sooner or later the new citizens will vote the govt out.
This is so-called 养蛇终被蛇咬,咎由自取!
Why paid the taxi fare for the PRC? If they are our citizens, we are already loacked up by police. Because ORC are 过江猛(凶)龙?
Remember this type of behaviour has happened in MOE and the next place it could happen is hospitals where someone urgently needed tranfusion to save his/her life and a bunch of street tough hooligans obstructing A & Es regardless of lives at risk and the Police cowered in fearful submission.
Do we really want to integrate another 3 million of the same behaviour type into our society?
I would say seriously “No thanks”
Any law-abiding Singaporeans disagree?
Pang Sai on Mon, 18th Jan 2010 11:48 pm
“Go for big stories like locals contracting AIDs, being hammered by Ah Longs, shunning manual jobs, teenagers making love on the trains, ingrates abandoning their elderly parents in homes, etc.”
STOMP for you, brother!
This is not the place for cowards like you.
the MIW will regret the day they decide to import all these people in thinking they will vote for them. these people are more trouble to the MIW than MIW thinks.
there you go …. “hard-driving” ones for you. i would like to see more of them making a fuss of everything and putting up protests and the whole she-bang.
good times are coming!
actually i find most that some of the fault belong to the bus company as well.
But due to the demography and silent enoucrage ment for ppl to vent here, it has been blown way out of proportion.
Soon ISD will have enough ground to say that TR is a forum for creating racial/ethnic disharmony and take action again all of us.
The end is near.
What? They think here is China for them to behave like some country bumpkin huh? Shameless. Reminded me of the chinese lady who missed her flight on youtube…
Next, foreign “talent” will demand for our organs and blood when they need them! On the basis that they are talent, and locals useless and better off dead.
Stop them now by voting against PAP. It is a life and death situation now, I kid you not!
I admire these people. Think about it.
The Chinese Nationals stood up for their rights. Which is a good
thing. SBS should pay for the taxi fare if they can’t provide WheelChair accessible buses.
Its about time that discrimination against the disabled be confronted. This is a much better way to protest than a complaint to the Straits Times Forum. A complaint that would bring about a swift but totally inadequate response from DEL GRO Public Relations.
PAP = Epic Fail = pwded by tiongs
Thats how the chinese behave and work in China, simi Police, Mayor, Village Head, kenna them nia sure torok torok one and these are the kind of ‘imported talents’ the PAPies are allowing in for the purpose of procreation and vote buying?
If the PAPies thinks that Sinkaporeans are a handful, wait till these ‘imported citizens’ fill 50% of Sinkapore, then they will know simi is jialut liao. By then, simi Sinkapore Law, simi Move On order, all can flush down the toilet with the Law Millister liao.
Sinkaporeans will NOT being about the downfall of the PAPies, its these ‘important citizens’ who will.
Give it another 4 to 5 years, Sinkapore will end up bveing a replica of a village in China.
I came across this email about Oz PM Rudd saying the following to their immigrants but not sure how authentic the message is. I can’t locate the source of the speech in their gov website. However the gist of the message is so applicable to us, isn’t it? I wonder if our leaders have the courage to say similar thing?
‘IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali, we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Australians.’
‘This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom’
‘We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!’
‘Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.’
‘We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.’
‘This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, ‘THE RIGHT TO LEAVE’.’
‘If you aren’t happy here then LEAVE. We didn’t force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.’
FT/FW/new PR/New citizens are all good for us, we must welcome them with open arms, our leaders have repeatedly told us so.
Our concerns that they steal our jobs, steal our school places, steal of scholarships, buy our HDB houses, etc etc etc are all nonsense and unfounded so say our leaders.
Stop complaining right now since there is nothing really that can be done, just welcome them and when the time comes to vote hope you unwelcome those crazy insensitive uncaring leaders.
When our gahmen gave them the impression that they’re like Emperor or Empress Dowager, of course they must behave like one, la!
“The bus did not put out any sign that forbid wheelchairs to be brought up and we did not commit any crime. So why was the bus stopped by the road and refused to fetch us home?”
Is it one-sided reporting? Based on this above statement, it seemed as if that the PRCs want the bus to continue driving. Was it the bus driver who stopped the bus himself and refused to budge for 6 hrs?
WOW …. took SBS and police 6hrs ???
If we sheeps master these talented people “Kungfu” … will Our Lions one by one lost its mane ?….
Interesting , time will tell …
angry cheated PRC workers protest at MOM building – MOM says not their problem but between employers and them. then more and more protests outside MOM, one went on rooftop (where’s the security ha?)- now it is MOM’s problem. wnat to collect levy but wash hands off problems? not so easy when it comes to PRC.
foreigners go MOE demand top school, employing nuisance refuse- to-leave tactics.
foreigners do this kind of thing to assert their rights from bureaucracy – better than writing to the useless `for-show’ forum in Shitty Times.
next time if trains get too crowded and they can’t get in – maybe they will simply ram in by force and knock those obstructing them down. this is the only way to get the profit-driven tranport companies to increase train frequencies.
Don’t provide enough buses when foreign workers want to go home? bus overcrowded and won’t open doors? next bus 20 minutes? be prepared for them to lie in front of the bus until they are let in.
hard-driven PRCs indeed!!
i didnt even bat my eyelids…for all u know next trip up their sleeve…if they could…they will drag acoffin up the bus…and then “cry father cry mother”…SBS will relent and provide free lorry service!
seow chenna people?
funny……
thats why among those FT, PR and new citizen, I dislike PRC ah tiong. they treat Spore is China and do what they want, like talking loudly, spitting etc.
besides those PRC “die die” want to speak mandarin. this is very unfair to our local malays and indians.
one of my malay friend told me she always encounter PRC staff like sale assistant, promoter, waitress or cashier who dont want to speak english. at the end my malay friend has master some basic mandarin.
this is very absurd!! we the citizen of spore need to adjust ourself to foreigner.
Remember that SBS Transit fiasco, where they put that ‘wheelchair’ sticker on buses BUT dont allow people on wheelchair to board.
http://app.lta.gov.sg/forum_replies_content.asp?start=77
WONDER WHY SBS TRANSIT NEVER OFFERED ‘TAXI RIDES’ to those handicapped Singaporeans that waited for the bus but can’t board.
SBS TRANSIT ALSO HAS ”SINGAPOREAN ALWAYS FIRST” POLICY?
let me share my little stories:
1. I asked in english (on purpose… I do speak excellent mandarin) a new chinese (from china) girl working for 711…in uniform..for a certain item. She coldly replied “dont know” (in english) and walked away. Sensing she has being rude..she turned around and said she is new. I gave her a good thrashing in mandarin and told her if she doesnt know…ask her senior! Otherwise let someone do the job and F off! She was literally trembling and apologised. I will do that again. Enuff is enuff..
2. A stupid chinese (china) lady working at foodcourt…while serving me mutterd in japanese! to her malaysian colleague..scolding me! And unfortunately for her…i do speak japanese as well…and i gave her left and rite in mandarin…and forced her to apologise or i will talk to her manager and make sure she get the sack! She did. period.
I will do it again and again…I dont care which country u r from…u try to be funny…i will give u hell! That’s my style!
Just what are the policy for wheel chair in SBS & SMRT passengers
anyway? State that clearly to us and we wouldn’t have these sort of problem coming up!
We will see more of this in the months to come. They are given the idea that we treasure their prescence and therefore we have to kow-tow to them.(They would not dare to do this in China)
Last year scores of indian workers marched down South Bridge Road to the MOM to protest on non payment of their salary, and no action was taken against them. There will be more manifestations of unruly behavoir of these PRCs and Indian Workers. Let us watch and see how the Government deals with them! Afterall, the rule of the law applies to all people living in Singapore!
Disgusting and annoying….
Having dealt with the Chinese in the past 18 years, I tend to shy away from any social contact with the mainland Chinese wherever and whenever possible. I have found them disgusting and I simply feel their presence in Singapore unpleasant! The millions of dollars our wealthy authorities are going to spend on them, it is probably a waste of taxpayers’ money.
Uniquely Singapore? I should have called it “Silly Singapore!”
I think i going to stay far far away from all this people, the army of clone commenters i mean.
“My I take an order?”
*translated from mandarin* “You are a Chinese and you dun know how to speak mandarin?”
“…”
singaporeans, you must learn from PRC people !!
they know their rights !!
You see how brave they are ??
Soon these PRC new citizens, tired of singapore after some time, will vote the PAP out !!
Shouldn’t these people be hauled to the police station for disorderly behaviour?
If they were opposition leaders or csj, they would have been surounded by more than 100 policemen and arrested immediately by the police and thrown into prison by PAP’s court of law.
Bully Singaporeans? Bully opposition? If distributing flyers could be jailed, what abt db? PAP changes policy to embrace civil disobedience promoted by csj?
The strengths of Singapore’s One-man democracy is 3Cs – Compliance judicary, compliance legislature and compliance police. So don’t blame the policemen..
Lee made another mistake b4 closing his account, he should instead bring in hard-driving and hard-striving Gong An (Police) from PRC to deal with hard-driving PRCs in Singapore.
Good! I luv it everytimes this Ah Tiongs create a scene. All Singaporeans will begin to see the incompetent of this government. The ministers lead by a couple of old, weak & blind lions have no foresight.
Like I say before LKY without his pioneer team of ministers is nothing. The current ministers are just copying policices from other countries. They cannot think out of the box.
those PRCs are trouble-markers, and our social facric is crumbling down
one of our national shared values is ‘Nation before community and society above self’
In 1980, Cuba deported thousands of their social undesirables to Miami. USA accepted most of them and eventually led to crime waves in Florida. Could China be doing the same thing o exporting their defective products to other countries? If so, Singapore is in a for a very rough ride. We are only seeing the beginning of a rising tide in social problems, community conflicts and crimes. Yes, if PAP is still in power for another 30 years they would admit it was a mistake to take in the scum of PRC society. However, we all can do the right thing this coming election and send a direct and confincing message that we do not want immigrants with questionable background and calibre. We only want immigrants who are willing to assimilate and are able to contribute to the society.
Hi @Newtype
Please joins your Ah Tiongs & other Foreign Trashs. We don’t welcome you because you are a traitor like our government. You sold us, fellow Singaporeans to the dogs.
when they start getting such politicians in parliament, maybe then they will understand why we shouldn’t get used to such behaviour.
To those who think the bus company is at fault for not showing any sign that no wheelchairs are allowed.
FYI, there are ‘wheel-accessible’ buses available on certain routes (especially those that passes by hospitals with wheel chair accessibility from bus stops). These buses have a BIG SIGN SAYING ITS WHEEL CHAIR ACCESSIBLE AND WHICH STOP WILL HAVE WHEEL ACCESSIBLE AND THEY WILL STOP FOR YOU. Go take bus 198 tat goes from boon lay (and pass by NUH) and bukit merah and u will see that.
SBS Transit is already providing more such buses over the years and it takes time to replace the entire fleet. It just happens that the bus they took isn’t wheel chair accessible. Wheel chair accessible buses are designed for the purpose, with a leaning back for the wheel chair. In cases of emergency, the wheel chair would still be in its place. Imagine the bus driver let the wheel chair up and then something happen.. then THESE PRCS WILL MAKE A BIG FUSS AGAIN (rem the Taxi driver? bring her to the location and then keep scolding the driver…). U see the point of the driver anot? And u can’t be putting a “No wheelchair” sign on every bus when u would do a ‘Wheel chair” sign on buses that support it.
Think abt it… this time round its really the PRCs at fault. And for wasting public resources (police, SBStransit, other ppl), they ought to be brought to court but they’re not…. Its really foreigners immunity… (if its singaporeans… i think they would have been fined many times…) Sad to be a singaporean….
http://www.sbstransit.com.sg/about/memorylane.aspx
Refer to the last bus
“The Wheel-Chair Accessible bus.
A prototype of this low-floor step-free double-deck bus equipped with a wheel-chair ramp and other physically accessible friendly features was unveiled on 15 February 2006. This is also our first Euro 3 public bus. 150 of these buses will be progressively deployed to ply the roads from April 2006.”
These PRCs… they think they come to singapore and they own the country. Wonder why they dare to do this in singapore and not in china? singapore made them too comfy? u think china communists would forgive them for such behavior?
I think we should not give in to unreasonable actions of these PRC if it harm our citizens. Because of the woman who sat FOC taxi; and the poor taxi driver lost the job. Isn’t it unfair to the driver? We can compromise if its reasonable and end win-win situation.
Such undesirables! What talent I must say to the PAP government? Probably the percentage of real talents from china is negligible compared to the whole population of PRCs in Sgp. Then there’s the 2nd group who are here to work and improve themselves. Still acceptable I think. However, it seems mainly are here just to earn money, without wanting to improve themselves. Leeches! Some of them even prostitute themselves along Lor 8 and 11 (no, I’m not a customer! ha ha). Cannot speak english, taxpayers must pay for them. Is the Government not thinking right?
Talking about foreigners, the park opposite jurong point on sunday morning especially is so… messy, disgusting after the congregation that took place there the night before.
You guys are typical sg. love to talk and complain when it comes to election day you still vote for PAP.
Steady la! You people are our ‘hao bang yang”!
Hope our gahmen will welcome more of such foreigners to Sg. We await the day when the gahmen will be the one who has to be ‘guai guai’ and listens to citizens instead of the other way round like right now.
I am one of the commuters on the bus, my journey was disrupted by this uncouth barbarians and I missed an important meeting. I intend to write in to Wan Bao/NewPaper to request for the particulars of these barbarians an I intend to take legal action against these people.
Hi Commuter,
We will like to learn more about your story.
Please email us at:
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i despise rude and unreasonable people. period What to do? We are dealing with foreign talent from the village and mountain!
Well again,I got to say,every country has its own rubbish people! I have been in Singapore for 13 years, I have heard, seen and encountered lots of human filthy and disgusting misconducts, selfish arguments and inconsiderate behaviors done by PRC chinese, other foreigners and local Singaporeans.
But again,TR, why do you only lock on these minor and tiresome events by PRC ppl? what’s the hell such one or two or several cases can prove that your Sg gov FT policy is wrong?
If someone attempt to grasp political capitals at the cost of stirring up Singaporeans’ xenophobia and hatred of PRC chinese without looking at the tremendous benefits of foreign talent policy that developed countries,including Singapore, have gained so far, the final big loser will not be this PRC chinese immigrant family!
If you stand for an opposition party, if I had vote right, I won’t vote for you for sure! TR, are you really so naive to believe that such kinds of repeated provocative,discriminative and biased reports can make Singapore and Singaporean’ lives better? or can shake PAP’s solid support from majority of rational and wise people?
If some PRC chinese did wrong, you do your right to expose them, but pls in a proper balance and with righteous stand. DO NOT just selectively dig out these single stinky scenarios to humiliate all other PRC chinese unless you attempt to be “an enemy” of whole of them!
Don’t forget there’re much much more polite,graceful and highly educated PRC chinese in China and other countries, their numbers are far more than the Singapore’s population.
CHN PR Veteran,
I am born and bred here and have lived for many years, and I HAVE NOT SEEN such barbaric behaviour in Singapore until today.
I agree with you most PRCs are not like that. I have been to China many times and have met many wonderful people. For some reason, the PRCs coming here are the worst type. You should ask PAP why they are importing the worst and creating image problems for the rest of PRCs.
Hey, if anybody was inconvenienced it was the protesters.
I cannot imagine S’poreans doing that: 6 hrs. Look at DBS HN5, Jubilee and Pinnacle noters; and minibonders. They sign petitions and think that govmin shld save them because they sign petition. If the investors were PRCers, they would fight until they die or win. Look at the Hongkies (PRCers second grade)
Ny publicising this and MoE lady, TR is proving that MM has a point — we need people with the balls to stand up for what they think is right.
If this was not TR’s intention, maybe the correspondent writing and editor approving pieces are PAP black ops operators. Pls investigate TR.
I never tot TR would provide evidence to back up MM. So the latter likely.
@ ‘Myanmar NOT WELCOME IN SG’, thanks for your comment.
just recently, my two engineers who had been working in Sg for two years, their PR application were rejected. without PR status, they can’t buy HDB flats and thus can’t bring their wives and children to Singapore to live together. finally they returned to China and won’t come back.
I think recent years, Singapore is no longer so attractive to those ppl in the developed areas of China, such as Shanghai,Beijing,ShenZhen and JiangSu,ZhenJiang provinces, in which salaries are competitively as good as or quite little difference from the ones in Sg. In my observation and opinion, only Sg primary and secondary school education and its good public security are still drawing PRC chinese parents to emigrate to or invest in Singapore or send their young teenagers to study here.
It seems true that lots of PRC chinese new comers are from the 3 north-eastern provinces of China(LiaoNing,JiLin and HeiLongJiang),these are relatively poor areas in China. I am not surprised at all that some of them are so rude and barbaric as you described, as this is very popular in China and also happened and could happen in other PRC chinese in other foreign countries.
the other disgraceful behaviors often seen among them and mostly complained by local people in host countries are speaking loudly, jumping queues, inconsideration and taking petty advantage. I also feel shameful on these people. they are losing the face of China and destroying the reputation that my country has built up so hard with great efforts.
Meanwhile, I always miss the Singapore 13 or 10 years ago when I first time came to. at that time, Singaporeans were more friendly and considerate, environment was cleaner and less crowded, HDB house prices were quite cheaper and easier for ones to afford.
If you ask me, I think 4 million of ultimate population might be the best for Singapore. 6m is just too heavy aboard. Instead of pumping up population with influx of foreigners in a short period, I think the gov should put much more resources and investments into the industry of green energy(eg solar system),water purifying, bio-medical technology as well as the well-known educational system, give more medical subsidies and train/import more qualified doctors and nurses so that every Singaporean,poor or rich, doesn’t have to worry about his/her medical care when getting old and retiring.
rising up the threshold of PR/citizenship application, only highly skillful mechanics,well-educated technical engineers, good doctors,nurses,famous artists are granted. but of course, Sg shall still welcome foreign workers to work here under employment pass only.
If Sg can successfully import top intelligent and develop/invent top technologies in green energy, new water and new bioengineering fields whilst still maintaining a very good living environment with less worry about aging issues, Singaporeans will be the most happy people on this planet.
Yawn…… no ah kua story? Yesterday I see someone spit. It’s Chinese. Singapore or not, I don’t know. Maybe PRC, maybe Burmese.
To: CHN PR Veteran,
It’s indeed very heartwarming to read your honest comments. Glad that you actually share the sentiments of true-blue S’poreans after calming your emotions.
Truly, the incident is the fault of this PRC family. We Chinese should know better about morality. As guests, WE MUST ALWAYS MIND OUR BEHAVIOUR! Isn’t it so?
Your comments about S’pore some 10 over yrs ago can’t be more correct. Yes, I think every S’porean also miss the good old S’pore. Emotions are running high, real high now as can be seen from the Net postings. Who is the cause for such an unwanted situation?
I truly hope that there’ll be more opposition parties to check on the present high-handed ruling party after the coming election or S’poreans can never ever be the happiest people in this planet!
real talents indeed. Why did the police not arrest them? just because they don’t hold a pink IC? so foreigners can stage riots and the police will just pay the cab fees for them to go home? Ridiculous. We need a REAL police force, not just another man in blue uniform with a pistol for show.
“Ny publicising this and MoE lady, TR is proving that MM has a point — we need people with the balls to stand up for what they think is right.”
Depends on what you fight for. I doubt being a public nuisance and inconveniencing people are good things. Anyway, they are standing up for their own selfish gains. Holding up a bus for 6 hours helps Singapore.
Dear True Singaporean,
Yes, by all means, call a spade a spade. Just don’t call it according to YOUR spade. That would be what the PAP would be best at.
Now, you mentioned that we have benefited immensely from the goodwill of you Singaporeans as taxpayer. Well, conversely, havent you guys also benefited? Aside from the point about being PAP sidekicks which I will deal later, many Malaysians are working in high skill jobs i.e. engineering, banking, law i.e. So its not as if you guys have not benefited. It is because of MALAYSIANS that Singapore is now economically the most advance and developed country in South East Asia in just 44 years since separation in 1965.
Secondly, you say we spread racial hatred on the island. 2 responses to that point. Firstly, why generalize? Not all Malaysians are racist. Many of us here get on well with all races and can communicate warmly and friendly to all. You conveniently make this assumption just because you would like to believe that Singapore is not inherently racist when in fact, you guys look down on Malays just because you think they are inherently lazy and useless. Furthermore, many non Malays in Singapore can’t speak Malay and conversely, don’t mix with Malays. So come on, don’t preach what you can’t practice. Secondly, name me any racial incidents or protest since 1964 which involved Malaysians? The answer to that is none. So don’t alleged what you can’t prove.
You say that there are no ex-singaporeans in the Malaysian Cabinet? Well, that because BN is incompetence and corrupt. No Singaporeans who have even an ounce of rationality would dream of serving as a public servant in Malaysia.
I can’t deny the fact that you are right about Malaysians who are serving in Singaporean institutions and being in cahoots with the PAP. But why blame us? We didn’t put the PAP there in the 1st place. It was you guys. Once upon a time, Malaysians serve as opposition politicians in Barisan Socialist of Singapore just before operation Cold Store happened in 1963. Why not considered that fact too? Please read more about both our countries history before sparing with me over this. Don’t just blame us. Blame yourselves. Just as we don’t blame the British anymore for installing BN as our government to perpetuate their legacy of divide and rule, we instead tried to make changes in our country and March 8 is a new dawn to that.
True Singaporean, i am just reasoning with you. Don’t be emotive and quick to blame Malaysians. Make the changes and fight for it. Don’t just sit in your room, commenting and spewing your diatribes and venoms about immigrants and foreigners. If you feel aggrieved, fight the system under the PAP. Fight as Singaporeans to take your country back.
We are all in this together!!!
WY
KL
i think the article misses the point. it is not about whether the person involved is a PRC / Indian / Singaporean. The crux of the matter is defintely not the race of the person involved. What people should be more concerned with, rather than issues of race and foreign talent, is the fact that public transportation, and other elements of society still discriminates against people with disabilities. Instead i think we should be applauding the person who created this furore over a wheelchair, over her insistence for the equal rights of people with disabilities to be able to access ‘public’ transportation which in this case, show how ‘un’public it is. If i was there at that point of time, i would surely have stood up for the denial of rights to the person with disabilities. This would not have happen in the States or the Scandinavia countries; the bus company would have been sued. So people, get ur priorities right, it is not about race nor foreign talent here, but rather the denial of equal rights to people with disabilities that should be the main issue that we should be concerned with here.
“So people, get ur priorities right, it is not about race nor foreign talent here, but rather the denial of equal rights to people with disabilities that should be the main issue that we should be concerned with here.”
I don’t think the issue is about the denial of equal rights to people with disabilities. I have personally seen a bus captain help a Malay family with an uncle on a wheelchair up a wheelchair-capable bus. But in any situation where a bus company is gradually phasing in wheelchair friendly buses, there will still be older buses that are not wheelchair capable.
Insisting on boarding a bus that is not wheelchair-capable with a wheelchair is not fighting for “rights”, unless the bus company had no plans to phase in wheelchair-capable buses before this incident.
@ Clownprince
Fully agreed with your points.
Another issue is the attitide of service provider. Don’t blame the driver, he surely must have just carry out his duty according to the company’s instruction. (Whatever the instruction was, to allow or not to allow the wheelchair) Here you’ll see there is not flexibility and initiative (Rice bowl at stake), that’s is the plight of our society now under the so called “No.1 system, No.1 leadership in the world”. sigh…………..
Where is Singapore heading ???
“Don’t blame the driver, he surely must have just carry out his duty according to the company’s instruction.”
That I agree. What a predicament to have a group of people create a din on your bus for SIX hours!
I really applaud the driver for his patience.
blackfeline on Tue, 19th Jan 2010 9:14 am
I am from PRC too. you don’t feel so proud of your singalish! why dont you go and listen to what the American or British say about your poor english?
are you really so naive to believe that you are a bilingual master piece? come on, I challenge either your english or chinese, as i can’t be convinced from your jittering comments that your english is perfect. dare you laugh at those poor chinese girls! I laugh at you too. you wanna speak japanese? go on, or wanna speak some french to me? or my 7 years old daughter? no problem! i happened to be in france for a few years. vous etes un abrutie! (sorry i dont have french font, but you understand? means: you idiot!)
shame on you who think speaking native chinese language is a shame! shame on you again who speak childish english with no shame!
i think we should focus on the act, rather than the nationality of person that did it.
The act itself is not correct, they should have the basic courtesy to alight the bus and seek their own transportation e.g via taxi.
Let’s ask our self why are we biased against the PRC. in my view, the main reason is that the PRC are here to “steal” our jobs at all different levels.
e.g from the helper in the coffee shop to the manager in an MNC.
In an open economy like us, i think this is unavoidable.
From a personal angle, i do feel the competition.
But from a biz angle, i think it’s necessary to ensure that the company is competitive on a global basis.
p.s with the advancement of technology in the past 20 years, the world have indeed become smaller and competition is on a global basis.
Hey, you all forgot 1989 when a lone man tried to st a column of army tanks. What is so amazing of a family stopping a bus for 6 hours?
It is not so hard-driving yet. Expecting more?
Come to think of it,it’s only a free cab ride.
If they were sinagporeans,the treatment would be even more
special- FREE RIDE ESCORTED BY HUGH SECURITY TO ‘CHANGI HOTEL’
with FREE FOOD AND LODGING AND 24/7 SECURITY THROWN IN!!!!!!
i believe the principal issue is not whether sbs needs more wheelchair-accessible buses.
that these chinese people can do as they like, with little care for social etiquette or moral values, and are still given preferential treatment, is preposterous. why is this so? if it was a gang of angry caucasions, i’d understand; after all, singaporeans still suffer from an inferiority complex with with an apparent partiality to humans with a lighter skin tone. but these are chinese citizens who’re evidently not rich enough to be intimidating, or poor enough to qualify for the luxurious treatment. in fact, i’d like to highlight that these people aren’t citizens (even if they are, they aren’t ‘true’ ones anyway).
i’m fairly sure if this episode were to happen to a groups of singaporeans instead, sbs wouldn’t be as hospitable.
like i said, preposterous.
>>#Gladingdown on Fri, 22nd Jan 2010 12:54 am
Hey, you all forgot 1989 when a lone man tried to st a column of army tanks. What is so amazing of a family stopping a bus for 6 hours?
It is not so hard-driving yet. Expecting more?>>
>>
Yes, it really chills the spine to think about this kind of thing happening say 10 years down the road.
Don’t forget they are not simply ‘FTs’ as is commonly thought – they are really a different culture altogether. Don’t mess around with them.
But their assertiveness for their rights (and the family members were crying) sure is a big eye-opening lesson to all the tame locals who never new assertiveness.
The biggest issue I believe is still law – the common law application of “Learned Hand”. That is to say, the rule of law should reign supreme over the will of the individual.
THIS APPLICATION OF LAW ENFORCEMENT by the poodle-in-blue will be seen by citizenry as politically selective and well-targetted of preference.
It is NO LONGER the rule of the law for ALL INHABITANTS OF THIS LAND but IT IS by selective bias of very oppressive law application.
How can this society degenerates so fast to this state?? It shames our national pledge and our flag.
I shudder to think what is the future like of corrupt law practices and how how we integrate the unruly impossible of integration.
Will it be, henceforth, mafia rules this town next with the connivance of selective law enforcement?
Despite “official” denial, we are still a country and nation.
Can’t stand tis PRC. They threw the used toilet paper on top of the rubbish bin instead of flushing it. They thought this is china.
I’ll lock myself at home rather then going out facing tis PRC. Noisy and crude. I’m worried that i’ll bash them in the public.
How do one verify the newspaper report? One story I heard was that the family are Singaporeans! (or maybe PRC who became Singaporeans!)
mating@inbox.com on Wed, 20th Jan 2010 10:24 pm :
“Let’s ask our self why are we biased against the PRC. in my view, the main reason is that the PRC are here to “steal” our jobs at all different levels. e.g from the helper in the coffee shop to the manager in an MNC.”
Singaporeans can also get jobs in Australia, US, UK etc.
Do they wish to be biased there?
In fact, for the low level jobs taken by PRC chinese, i.e. coffee shop/supermarket helper, waitress/waiter, we should blame local Singaporean business owners and job agents. Why? Because these vampires received incentives from each of these foreign workers, ‘chop’ them before pay them salary. How? All these worker will have to pay upfront S$10k in order to land here to work. Some don’t even get the job that promised to them, for e.g. 1.2K to 800, take it or leave. Imagine, what have they left for saving after paying for the S$10k debt and high living expenses including rental/food/transport?
Now, dear singaporeans, let’s say if someone offer you a US$5k/month job in US, but you have to pay S$50K in advance. And when you pay everything and by the time reaching US, they tell you, “sorry, we can only offer you US$2K job.” How will you feel about this country?
SBS should offer taxis to the other passengers inconvenienced by the family. In this case it would appear as if a ransom was paid before the bus could be released and resume its service. Also, with the other passengers offered taxis (I bet not all our people would take advantage of the offer), the bus driver could have stalled the bus until the family is evicted.
Singaporean position as “Complaint King” have just been robbed
i think these PRC people should have a fair living in SG but they have to behave themselves and not steal SGs jobs. SG people should be the ones with priority first. If they want to get jobs here, the unemployment rate here should at least drop by 30% before they the first PRCs get their jobs. its unfair to see lots talented of SGs unempolyed but untalented foreigners with high paying jobs. Be Fair
Survival instincts are very strong for the Chinese in China. Imagine having to compete with 1.3 billion other Chinese to move up the ladder. They fight like there is no after life.
Surely must use every trick in the bag even if it is dirty and unlawful.
Survival for the fittest.
To be honest, we do need the foreign workers. They take up jobs that we don’t want. We shd give them credit for building our HDB flats. It’s no mean feat to do a 3D – demanding dangerous and dirty – job that pay peanuts. So kudos to these lowly-paid workers. BUT what I think we don’t need are the MASSEURS, NON-ENGLISH SPEAKING SERVICE WORKERS, and even PROSTITUTES. Do they really contribute much to our society? I think they create more social problems for us. I rather pay $30 to the blind but well-trained masseur for a 30-min massage session.
And I have seen many times that old uncles hugging their PRC mistresses at kopitiams and on public buses where they carass and say disgusting stuff out loud. I know they are PRC because they are so identifiable. and I know they are mistresses because I overheard one of them asking about the uncle’s wife!!! such audacity. Shame on those old uncles to cheat on their wives. But men are men. PRC women shd respect themselves more instead of breaking up families for the sake of $$$.
What I said might not be relevant to this post, but I just want to highlight that SG shd only bring in foreign workers who add value to our country (such as building our HDB flats) and decline those who do not (through declaration of intention to visit). just a thought.
I’m not being sexist for I’m a female myself, but why is it that it is always the PRC women that are causing trouble? WHY???
If this ugly standoff were to happen in Malaysia, the police there would have rounded the entire PRC family to the police lockup.
Our police is so professional and nice to this PRC family.
In time to come, these PRC immigrants will rule Singapore.
How could public transport in a first world country be unable to provide handicap access?
Singaporeans should grow some balls. These PRC folks have shown you the right way to assert yourself in circumstances like this.
Just because Singaporeans are scared shitless of the authorities and meekly swallow whatever crap fed to them doesn’t mean that other people must also behave likewise.
all ft prc dont forget when come and reside in Singapore. Our policy here is such if you cannot find the signage or NO signage of what you are looking for it means – they dont have, you cannot do, not allow, not permitted or against law and regulation.
for permission find the signage if dont have means cannot lah.
The default answer is ‘NO’ to most inconvenient questions.
@bah, not only women. Remember the PRC chef that knifed a young Singapore supervisor to death? This Singaporean young man served NS for 2 years, and still have to die for the country. That PRC chef was not sentence to death, k. This is something I will not forgive the court for.
一味煽情，无意求实。以偏概全，居心不良。无名鼠辈也。
“Pack up your trouble in your old kit bags and smile , smile smile”
Remember this song ?
Now New Singaporean has to learn the “Courtesy is for free , Courtesy is for you and me….”
Then they later has to learn “One people , One nations , One Singapore…”
gov better give them the ‘70 all the national campaign video to before they can get their national.
some new police force call 公安 has to form here to deal the PRC ,
the right ppl to deal with matter
It occurs to me that while the more PRCs are in Singapore taking free education, and this and that, the more our GLCs are getting bigger projects in China. Is it something that we don’t know???