In an article written by a David Wu and Tanya Harrison on music in The
Epoch Times they mentioned an ancient blind musician by the name of Shi
Kuang. When the emperor took pity on his blindness he told the emperor
that his blindness was nothing. There were 5 kinds of blindness that
were worse than his.
He said, ‘when a king was blind to injustice, blind to his official’s
incompetence, blind to the righteous, blindly engaged in war, and was
blind to his subjects’ well being, his state would be doomed to fall and
his people would suffer more.’
This little ancient wisdom can be applied to modern day states and the
state of blindness of heads of govt or country. Any head of govt or
country that lives with the 5 blindness will soon see his country’s doom
and his own doom.
10/09/2013
CPE will not take legal action against student blogger Han Hui Hui
Media Release
STATUTORY BOARD WILL NOT TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST STUDENT BLOGGER
Court Action Discontinued as Parties Arrive at Agreement
SINGAPORE, October 8, 2013– Han Hui Hui, the 21-year old Singaporean student blogger who was threatened with a defamation suit by the Council for Private Education [“CPE”], has agreed not to proceed with her challenge in Court against the statutory board. The CPE has agreed not to take any action against Ms Han for defamation.
Acting for Ms Han, lawyer Mr M Ravi believes the matter has come to a happy outcome for his young client. “I am so proud of Ms Han’s conviction. She has not shied away from a fight and through her persistence and activism, Ms Han has raised awareness on this issue – Singaporeans should have a reasonable expectation that they will not be sued for defamation when they question or criticize a public authority.”
Through her challenge, Ms Han was asserting in the Singapore Court what is known as the “Derbyshire Principle”: plainly, that individuals should be free to criticise government institutions and their agencies without fear of being sued for defamation. The principle has been adopted widely in the Courts, beginning in the United Kingdom (Derbyshire Town, for which it takes its name) and following in Canada, Australia, India, South Africa and Malaysia. In the United States, this principle has stood for nearly a century and its purpose is to allow free and fair criticism of public institutions by the citizens who both fund them with their tax dollars and are governed by them.
“I hope that Parliament will act soon to amend the Defamation Act to ensure that government agencies do not continue to use the tax-payers’ dollars to fund actions against their own citizens in Court. The government – particularly in Singapore where the mainstream media is state-controlled – has ample resources and opportunity to respond to any inquiry or criticism raised by the public without resorting to punitive civil action against private individuals” states Mr Ravi.
Han Hui Hui and fellow Singaporeans should say a big thank you to brave and upright lawyers like M Ravi to stand up for them. Many had in the past decided to back off and even pay compensations to rogues that were in the wrong but used the weight of the law and their big bank account to bully innocent citizens and abusing the courts of justice. Without professional and civic conscious lawyers like Ravi, Han Hui Hui could go the same way if she could not find anyone to represent her without bankrupting her with legal fees.
Thank you Ravi and the likes, if there are any of you in the community
STATUTORY BOARD WILL NOT TAKE LEGAL ACTION AGAINST STUDENT BLOGGER
Court Action Discontinued as Parties Arrive at Agreement
SINGAPORE, October 8, 2013– Han Hui Hui, the 21-year old Singaporean student blogger who was threatened with a defamation suit by the Council for Private Education [“CPE”], has agreed not to proceed with her challenge in Court against the statutory board. The CPE has agreed not to take any action against Ms Han for defamation.
Acting for Ms Han, lawyer Mr M Ravi believes the matter has come to a happy outcome for his young client. “I am so proud of Ms Han’s conviction. She has not shied away from a fight and through her persistence and activism, Ms Han has raised awareness on this issue – Singaporeans should have a reasonable expectation that they will not be sued for defamation when they question or criticize a public authority.”
Through her challenge, Ms Han was asserting in the Singapore Court what is known as the “Derbyshire Principle”: plainly, that individuals should be free to criticise government institutions and their agencies without fear of being sued for defamation. The principle has been adopted widely in the Courts, beginning in the United Kingdom (Derbyshire Town, for which it takes its name) and following in Canada, Australia, India, South Africa and Malaysia. In the United States, this principle has stood for nearly a century and its purpose is to allow free and fair criticism of public institutions by the citizens who both fund them with their tax dollars and are governed by them.
“I hope that Parliament will act soon to amend the Defamation Act to ensure that government agencies do not continue to use the tax-payers’ dollars to fund actions against their own citizens in Court. The government – particularly in Singapore where the mainstream media is state-controlled – has ample resources and opportunity to respond to any inquiry or criticism raised by the public without resorting to punitive civil action against private individuals” states Mr Ravi.
Han Hui Hui and fellow Singaporeans should say a big thank you to brave and upright lawyers like M Ravi to stand up for them. Many had in the past decided to back off and even pay compensations to rogues that were in the wrong but used the weight of the law and their big bank account to bully innocent citizens and abusing the courts of justice. Without professional and civic conscious lawyers like Ravi, Han Hui Hui could go the same way if she could not find anyone to represent her without bankrupting her with legal fees.
Thank you Ravi and the likes, if there are any of you in the community
Education quality to be improved
In his dialogue with Poly students yesterday at the 17th Polytechnic
Forum, Heng Swee Kiat said there was no need to build another
polytechnic. The five polytechnics should be adequate for our needs.
What is lacking is the quality and this must be improved ‘to make
learning more engaging and valuable for students’. This about sums up
the education and job situation here at the moment.
We are producing enough graduates but lacking in quality. The problem is solved by importing good quality graduates from the third world and they have the numbers we need. In the meantime the urgent matter is to raise the quality of our world ranked education system to compete with those in unranked education institutions in the third world countries. They have got their education system right while we got it all wrong. We are like getting all the branded goods, brand names, but all fake, unusable and of poor quality.
The issue of improving the quality of a flawed education system will take a longer time to correct. While the MOE is doing it, perhaps it would be better to correct the clear and immediate problems by sending our students to the third world countries that are producing all the great talents that are replacing our daft graduates. The second step is to send a few teams to these third world countries to learn from them on how to produce graduates that are better than our universities and polytechnics. And certainly, even if the quality does not improve, the cost will be much cheaper if we engaged all their top professors, lecturers and teachers to replace the robots that we are using to teach our students.
With this two prong approaches, we would be able to save a lot of cost in education and produce good quality graduates as well. We may not need all the world ranked universities and polytechnics by sending our students to universities and polytechnics in the third world countries. No need to pay expensive western professors and lecturers, no need expensive education institutions and infrastructures, no need to sell ourselves as the education hub when we are producing not employable graduates or graduates good only for second or third tier management, etc etc.
That’s the way to go, cheap and good, very good and very cheap.
We are producing enough graduates but lacking in quality. The problem is solved by importing good quality graduates from the third world and they have the numbers we need. In the meantime the urgent matter is to raise the quality of our world ranked education system to compete with those in unranked education institutions in the third world countries. They have got their education system right while we got it all wrong. We are like getting all the branded goods, brand names, but all fake, unusable and of poor quality.
The issue of improving the quality of a flawed education system will take a longer time to correct. While the MOE is doing it, perhaps it would be better to correct the clear and immediate problems by sending our students to the third world countries that are producing all the great talents that are replacing our daft graduates. The second step is to send a few teams to these third world countries to learn from them on how to produce graduates that are better than our universities and polytechnics. And certainly, even if the quality does not improve, the cost will be much cheaper if we engaged all their top professors, lecturers and teachers to replace the robots that we are using to teach our students.
With this two prong approaches, we would be able to save a lot of cost in education and produce good quality graduates as well. We may not need all the world ranked universities and polytechnics by sending our students to universities and polytechnics in the third world countries. No need to pay expensive western professors and lecturers, no need expensive education institutions and infrastructures, no need to sell ourselves as the education hub when we are producing not employable graduates or graduates good only for second or third tier management, etc etc.
That’s the way to go, cheap and good, very good and very cheap.
10/08/2013
Meetings of world leaders should be like this
Photo courtesy of China DailyVladimir Putin celebrated his birthday in the idyllic island of Bali. Among the party guests were the Prime Ministers and Presidents of the Asia Pacific and Asean countries. Xi Jin Ping was there too. And Putin had the honour of another President in Yudhoyono strumming the guitar and playing the birthday song for him. And all the PMs and Presidents sang Happy Birthday to Putin in a relax and joyous moment like an old boys' club. What an evening.
In a gathering of world leaders, it was about caramaderie and friendship, about building bridges and relationships. It was not about threats of military actions, sanctions or signing military pacts. It was not about warning countries that their national interests means the country has a right to thump table and expect other countries to let them run roughshod in their neighbourhood.
The APEC Asean summit was like a birthday party, about peaceful pursuits and trades, not about big bullies threatening everyone that they are here to stay, bringing their guns and warships, and to sign defence treaties to prepare to fight one another.
Happy birthday Putin. And what a gracious and charming host in Yudhoyono. It was a Bandung gathering of a different kind in a different time when Indonesia again played hosts to world leaders.
US Evil Militant Doctrine of Perpetual Warfare
China And ASEAN as well as all other countries should be aware of US Evil Doctrine of Perpetual Warfare
China and Asean countries have both in the recent past shared the unfortunate fate of being occupied , colonised and badly exploited by the West and therefore they should now be more vigilant and wary of the West headed by the Evil Empire - USA . US has an evil militant doctrine of perpetual and permanent warfare. Under this doctrine US and the West will consistently and incessantly psycho, provoke and incite other unsuspecting countries to fight and go after each others throats while they will sell weapons and military hardware to the pathetic warring countries . US find this insidious doctrine of perpetual warfare necessary and essential because of its huge mongous war industries . The war industries employed hundreds of thousands of employees and are owned by warmonger capitalists who sit in both Wall Street , The White House , Congress and The Senate as well as in CIA and The Pentagon. These war industries serve the multi purpose of not only earning the warmongering capitalists hundreds of billions of dollars annually but also enable US and the West to control the natural resources of other countries as well as allowing US - The Evil Empire to hold hegemony and have complete control of all countries in this world.
China and ASEAN as well as all other countries must not fall into the trap of being psychoed and incited to go into warfare among themselves just because of imaginary, flimsy and frivolous grounds or reasons played up by The Evil Empire - USA.
Southernglory1
Read the article below and watch the video by CORBETT
Re: Who Is Really Behind the Syrian War? - YouTube
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We all know that the US government is the greatest warmonger in the world. Without wars, big or small, how do their weapon manufacturers sell their weapons? This group of ppl have great influence in Capitol Hill. So they go around to instigate revolt against legitimate governments around the world using the flimsiest excuse to wage wars in these countries. Iraq is the case in point. Where are the WMDs? None. But look at the state of affairs in Iraq. It is anarchy all round. Libya was next and now Syria. Now they want to pivot to Asia. China is their target. They tried the Jasmine revolution but failed and now they try to get their minions, like the Japanese lap dogs, the ingrate Vietnamese government and the spineless Philippines government to do their dirty job by needling China into localized wars in the South China Sea over island disputes so that they can go in to hammer China invoking their so-called joint defense treaties.
China must exercise the greatest restraint not to provoke a military skirmish, thus giving the US the long awaited excuse to launch another debilitating war. China must concentrate on improving its internal security, (against the separatist elements in Tibet and Xinjiang) strengthening its defense capability and furthering its economic power.
Militarily, China is no match against the US at the moment except maybe starting a nuclear conflict in which there will be no winner but mutual destruction. Remember the US was the one who dropped 2 atom bombs in Japan in WWII. Now sworn enemies of yore viz Japan and Vietnam are bedfellows with the US against a rising China.
Without the internet to show real footages, I would have thought that the US is the 'good guy'. Now I know the US and its leaders are just as devious and they have their agenda to bring down Syria as they have done with Iraq. I have learnt not to trust the politicians any more.
Like to share the following link on the Syrian saga. the video is from Corbett Report, an independent podcast on politics, society n economics. it was started by a Canadian James Corbett. what is worrying is retired USA general Wesley Clark's comments of a plan to get rid of 7 Muslim countries in Middle East, viz Irag, Lybia, Syria, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cCdaExnIpGs
China and Asean countries have both in the recent past shared the unfortunate fate of being occupied , colonised and badly exploited by the West and therefore they should now be more vigilant and wary of the West headed by the Evil Empire - USA . US has an evil militant doctrine of perpetual and permanent warfare. Under this doctrine US and the West will consistently and incessantly psycho, provoke and incite other unsuspecting countries to fight and go after each others throats while they will sell weapons and military hardware to the pathetic warring countries . US find this insidious doctrine of perpetual warfare necessary and essential because of its huge mongous war industries . The war industries employed hundreds of thousands of employees and are owned by warmonger capitalists who sit in both Wall Street , The White House , Congress and The Senate as well as in CIA and The Pentagon. These war industries serve the multi purpose of not only earning the warmongering capitalists hundreds of billions of dollars annually but also enable US and the West to control the natural resources of other countries as well as allowing US - The Evil Empire to hold hegemony and have complete control of all countries in this world.
China and ASEAN as well as all other countries must not fall into the trap of being psychoed and incited to go into warfare among themselves just because of imaginary, flimsy and frivolous grounds or reasons played up by The Evil Empire - USA.
Southernglory1
Read the article below and watch the video by CORBETT
Re: Who Is Really Behind the Syrian War? - YouTube
Inbox
We all know that the US government is the greatest warmonger in the world. Without wars, big or small, how do their weapon manufacturers sell their weapons? This group of ppl have great influence in Capitol Hill. So they go around to instigate revolt against legitimate governments around the world using the flimsiest excuse to wage wars in these countries. Iraq is the case in point. Where are the WMDs? None. But look at the state of affairs in Iraq. It is anarchy all round. Libya was next and now Syria. Now they want to pivot to Asia. China is their target. They tried the Jasmine revolution but failed and now they try to get their minions, like the Japanese lap dogs, the ingrate Vietnamese government and the spineless Philippines government to do their dirty job by needling China into localized wars in the South China Sea over island disputes so that they can go in to hammer China invoking their so-called joint defense treaties.
China must exercise the greatest restraint not to provoke a military skirmish, thus giving the US the long awaited excuse to launch another debilitating war. China must concentrate on improving its internal security, (against the separatist elements in Tibet and Xinjiang) strengthening its defense capability and furthering its economic power.
Militarily, China is no match against the US at the moment except maybe starting a nuclear conflict in which there will be no winner but mutual destruction. Remember the US was the one who dropped 2 atom bombs in Japan in WWII. Now sworn enemies of yore viz Japan and Vietnam are bedfellows with the US against a rising China.
Without the internet to show real footages, I would have thought that the US is the 'good guy'. Now I know the US and its leaders are just as devious and they have their agenda to bring down Syria as they have done with Iraq. I have learnt not to trust the politicians any more.
Like to share the following link on the Syrian saga. the video is from Corbett Report, an independent podcast on politics, society n economics. it was started by a Canadian James Corbett. what is worrying is retired USA general Wesley Clark's comments of a plan to get rid of 7 Muslim countries in Middle East, viz Irag, Lybia, Syria, etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cCdaExnIpGs
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