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9/09/2014
Chok Tong to India to reaffirm ties
‘In a statement yesterday (7 Sep), the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that Emeritus Senior Minister (ESM) Goh Chok Tong will visit India from 7 to 11 September 2014 to reaffirm the close bilateral ties between Singapore and India.
“To promote stronger links between the next generation of ministers from both countries, ESM Goh will be accompanied on his visit by Minister in the Prime Minister’s Office and Second Minister for Home Affairs and Trade and Industry S Iswaran and Minister of State for National Development Desmond Lee,” the statement said….’
What does the above statement mean? To promote stronger links, does it mean the current links are not strong and intimate enough? What would stronger links mean? Is it because the Indians are not happy with the CECA and Chok Tong has to go there to renegotiate or to assure the Indians that things could be better?
India used to have two strong men in the Singapore Govt in full support of stronger bilateral relations, ie Chok Tong and George Yeo, who were instrumental in the signing of the CECA. In the absence of George, is Chok Tong the only strong lobby left and the Indians are feeling insecure and need to be reassured that someone will replace George in this relationship?
Which country must Singapore send the ESM to reaffirm frail ties? Or which country needs to be regularly hugged to tell them that ties are good and no need to worry? Or it is the other way, that Singapore is feeling the coldness from India and needs to be embraced by India to feel good? Have we not have had enough of the Indian Fever, or are we asking for more? I already started to imagine Chok Tong doing the John Travolta routine, Indian Fever once again, minus George Travolta. Who is the next George Travolta in line to build strong Singapore Indian ties?
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This shows that ties with India are indeed important, more important than Sinkies care to appreciate and realise.
ReplyDeleteAs long as Sinkies no enough and SInkie opposition not ready to be govt, PAP really needs and can also afford to have stronger ties with India (meaning more Indian professionals to come and work here)
India has the world's largest English speaking population and perhaps also talent resources.
ReplyDeleteIgnore this resource at your own peril. And I think PAP knows that, but not ordinary, daft Sinkies.
Yes, time to let India Talents to manage Sin.
DeleteWith the Locals at the Helm, soon there shall be mayhem.
Yes ... peanuts lady will surely agree with your opinion
DeleteLeemember... vote 4 papigs
I think we might as well be the next province of India based on what u stated. Your wife and daughter will be the maids or salves
ReplyDeleteReally? This is a country that was ruled by a small island for several centuries and very happy about it. In fact it was never a country but bits and pieces put together by the colonial power and called a company.
ReplyDeleteIt keeps calling itself a super power or with a wild ambition to be the top super power. To be polite, we can say good luck to the your ambition.
To be less diplomatic it is a slum of continental proportion. Singapore is eyeing the poverty and salivating on what it could do to turn this big piece of disorganised mess around.
Are you joking, Singapore is in awe with their talents and inviting them in plane loads to turn Singapore around.
ReplyDelete'MoC to raise the issue with Singapore government as architectural firms not part of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement
ReplyDelete(1 Sep) – Have you been attracted to advertising that the real estate project has been designed by an architectural firm in Singapore? Many developers have found that foreign architectural firms bring a high level of credibility to projects in the mind of Indian buyers.
However, these operations in India do not form part of the Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) signed between India and Singapore, facilitating bilateral trade and are therefore deemed illegal. In the eye of the storm today is Ms RSP Architects and Engineers (Pte) Ltd.'
What have the fark heads been doing? They signed an agreement for Singapore to open its legs so wide that the Indians could put their heads in with room to spare. And now Singapore cannot even squeeze its last finger into India!
To laugh or to cry? KNNBCCB!
Do these Indians who decide to translocate to Singapore have degrees? Or is it not really vital for them to have a degree to succeed in the singapore business environment.
ReplyDelete"Do these Indians who decide to translocate to Singapore have degrees?"
ReplyDeleteAnon 10:39 am
The problem is that there are not even enough Sinkies with no degrees.
That's why for economic growth, PAP needs lots of Indians, whether got degrees or not, to supplement not enough Sinkies.
And most important for PAP, there are not even enough Sinkies unhappy enough to want to vote PAP out.
I have to agree. We need the 3rd world talents of India to take over the govt of this city and turn it into a 1st world city.
ReplyDeleteEMS better go down on his knees and beg India to send more talents here.
Tiok. Many Sinkies are unhappy but not that unhappy to the extent that they will vote for a dog or cat instead of PAP.
ReplyDeleteIndia don't be too hard on our ESM Goh.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Yeo's main claim to fame as Foreign Minister is the number of FTAs he signed, including CECA. He should be forced to eke out a living in India instead of having a good time in Hongkong under the auspices of Robert Kuok.
ReplyDeleteWahliao eh,
ReplyDeleteEven stinkapore MP also think stinkaponang daft
MP dun know his grassroots executives
members well ... wonder any quorum for passing of agenda at meetings
Leemember... vote papigs for poorsperity n transparency ... nobody do it betterer.
George Yeo's main claim to fame as Foreign Minister is the number of FTAs he signed, including CECA.
ReplyDeleteAnon 12:09 pm
But I don't think he was voted out in GE 2011 because of that. Sinkies may not even be aware of the many FTAs that he signed.
He was voted out because he was unlucky to have Teochew Ah Hia as his opponent.
So it depends on the opponent. If opponent is Goh Meng Seng aka Madcow, even Mabok Tan could also win. And he did.
Anon 12.43. // But I don't think he was voted out in GE 2011 because of that. Sinkies may not even be aware of the many FTAs that he signed. //
ReplyDeleteSo if were YEW, which YEW prefer? More oppo MPs or just some social media kpkb?
Which is a better outcome YEW desire?
30 oppo MPs in parliament or 30 active bloggers kpkb online?
Statistically in the past 10 years, no blogger has made it to a full MP!
ReplyDeleteThe closest is GG. But he is just NCMP only. Thus, if there are 30 or even 100 active bloggers vs 30 oppo MPs, which outcome YEW think they prefer?
Some more GG winning the next GE is not a done deal with " major offensive " undertaken by paper GUNERAL "kee chiu ". Remember Dec 2013 party conference he said "take on enemies on all front, fight everywhere "?
Lately Bedok just opened new social service one stop office by kee chiu's mystery of SF and officiated by the rather "unlikeable" former IE ceo and current ministar of palamong 离危险. Heard abt " kiam pak bin "?
But 60% sinkies very 现实. "Fark face " also neber mind. Just $$$ and gooooooooodies cum can liao.
So the final analysis is YEW think safer to have 30 or even 100 active bloggers kpkb online or 30 oppo MPs elected in palamong?
Even Uncle Tony of Oz have to go personally to india to mend ties. Darth Vader is courting India. Vader allies will all have to do the same unless they all switch to become Obiwan allies.
ReplyDeleteRelationship between Sin and India can be optimally and permanently maintain. All that needs to be done is to make Georgie Boy the Permanent Trade Representative and Goh Chok Tong the High Commissioner in India.
ReplyDeletepatriot
@ Patraitor.// Relationship between Sin and India can be optimally and permanently maintain. All that needs to be done is to make Georgie Boy the Permanent Trade Representative and Goh Chok Tong the High Commissioner in India. //
ReplyDeleteAh ya, just create SINDIA la, simple?
A permanent marriage la?
Or copy ancient diplomacy and marry one princess to an ah neh Prince problem settled?
Tiok bor?
Heard abt Han Emperors marrying their princess to the barbarian tribal chiefs in the north in history?
Dear Anon 3:17 pm.
DeleteTiok.
Your Suggestion and Inference very the Good.
Me supports neh.
patriot
Ha ha ha
DeleteThe problem is which princess to choose?
Any ministar princess like to do "ns", pls kee chiu?
Whose beautiful daughter shall be married to mend ties?
ReplyDeleteKnn... beauty in the eyes of the beholder
DeleteI think ... old fart kuanyew daughter will be appropriate
Redbean,
ReplyDeleteonce the majority of India, China trash flood SinCity and becomes majority, they become dominant and powerful, and new SinCity will be known officially as Sinadia => Sincity of chINA & inDIA .... No more Singapore, only Sinadia on world map.
How's that for marketing. Can Redbean trademark Sinadia because it may worth billions in the coming future.
Sinadia is not catchy enough?
ReplyDeleteAfter leg open big big and kena massively and painfully penetrated, this name sounds too wimpy?
How about ChindiaWHORE?
Chindia has been sprouted every where in the media. Not likely for China to India to come together. But Chindia to replace Red Dot is highly possible at the rate the PRCs and Indians are flooding this island.
ReplyDeleteChindia so be it.
// Chindia so be it! //
ReplyDeleteNo!
For remembrance of the ever existence of SINKIELAND, it must have some words reminiscent of it! !!
Last call, take it or leave it!
Chindiapoor!
Goooooooooooooooood?
But there won't be any Singapooorean left by then.
ReplyDeleteWell at least our princess still available. Net citizen should also go easy on woody as he has retired and not much to do so an overseas trip once a while opm pays for it is like a holiday anyway.
ReplyDeleteSending Woody Goh to India to renegotiate the CECA? He will be eaten alive. As if the original CECA was any good for Singapore. Now he is there to give more concession? Well the new graduates and the PMETs better watch out because the new renegotiated CECA will definitely mean more Top, middle and lower mangers here in Singapore. Jobs will be harder to find. This Job Bank is just a front for more FTs from India, PRC, Malaysian and other SEA countries to invade Singapore. All because the main objective is to grow the GDP. Hope you vote with a clear mind in the next GE. Things will get worse, much worse.
ReplyDelete@ Anonymous September 09, 2014 4:48 pm
ReplyDelete// But there won't be any Singapooorean left by then. //
Dinosaurs were already extinct 65 million years old.
But the name dinosaur lives on ..........
Sinkiepooooooooreans pai mia jin cham, kena forced open leg big big raped until extinction in less than 50 years time as "forecasted by kee chiu " recently. But at least let the name lives on like the already 65 million years ago extinct dinosaur.
Hope GKS, TCC and all the late old guards did not die in vain and stir in their graves?
RIP, SINKIEPOOOOOOOOOOOR................
After the fake orgasms brought about by PGP, remaking of places of recreation (actually more to cater to tourist than locals), the pain will come soon enough.
ReplyDeleteAfter GE2016, recent changes will be re-changed to the status quo. Singaporeans better wise up to the wayangs when they go to the polls this time.
Organism real or fake, after having spoken to many oldies, majority likely to continue their past belief and religion and worship the God of the Lightning Rod?
ReplyDeleteSo will be lucky to maintain the current oppo MPs in palamong?
So according to astrology, the forecast is 52% vs 48% but 92% vs 8% seats if 87 seats remain the same?
Cock Tong just love Indians, just like his other half. He'll be following Georgie out in the next GE, head bowed in shame ! Give him a gu lan, a huge one, will ya
ReplyDeleteHahahahah
ReplyDeletePoor true blue... i really loved this news...
Regards,
Indian
What happen to, "we will slow down the economy, if we have to", its back to, "growth and nothing but growth", the garmen is all out again to help daft sinkies........just look at the buy back scheme of our so call houses..........that's so generous of the mighty pap.
ReplyDelete"What happen to, "we will slow down the economy, if we have to", its back to, "growth and nothing but growth", the garmen is all out again to help daft sinkies........just look at the buy back scheme of our so call houses..........that's so generous of the mighty pap."
ReplyDeleteSeriously, after all these years, you still believe clown, con-man, scammer, liar, evil and greedy cronies, lackeys, sycophant from the Party Against People ? No wonder Old fart says citizens are daft.