Pritam Singh's speak English only gaining support from English speakers here

A woman shopping at NTUC FairPrice expressed frustration about a Chinese employee’s inability to speak English and confronted management about their negligence to assess basic language requirements in their hiring process.

A 9-minute long TikTok posted by the woman, @Amy_tashiana, (which has since been moved to her YouTube page instead) shows her intense interaction with an NTUC employee, who was unable to converse in English with her while she was trying to purchase fresh fish....

Amy later went on to complain to a FairPrice team leader about the matter, who defended the employee saying that she has trouble communicating, to which Amy replied that she is unable to communicate at all, therefore not making her a right fit to work there.

“There’s a lady over there, she said that she is a Chinese national and she cannot commute (sic) in English, she said she don’t speak English at all so how we, customer and member of NTUC have such people to deal with?” Amy questioned. ...

After this discussion, Amy and the team leader went back to the employee at the fish section and with the assistance of the team leader, explained how she wanted the fish to be cut but was still unhappy with the final product as the staff had entirely cut off the tail of the fish, instead of just a fraction of it, which is what she wanted and deemed to be usual practice.

“She should know how to clean the fish lah, the tail also must cut like pedicure. Tail also don’t know how to cut then what is she doing there?” voiced out Amy.

“You want to employ me or not? I can cut the fish better than her. Put me there the same salary, take her out, I can cut the fish like a flower,” she added.

“She cutting fish but she don’t know how to cut fish,” she said in the video. “How long she working there already? Few months and she don’t know how to cut fish?” she questioned angrily.

“With all prices increased everywhere and got such service, especially in NTUC so I had decided to publish the video,” shared Amy with The Independent Singapore.

In her TikTok, Amy says “Pritam Singh you are absolutely right, they need to go and learn English before they come and work here.”...

Above are parts of an article in theindependent.sg about how intolerant a customer was with an NTUC staff who could not speak English. She demanded that such people cannot be employed by NTUC.

I can still remember that many Ah Mas and Ah Gongs admitted to hospital had difficulties communicating with the foreign staff as they could only speak in dialects. With this 'trend' to speak English only, I am wondering whether those Ah Mas and Ah Gongs should not be allowed admission into hospitals because they could not speak English? Or would they be bullied or chased out of the hospitals because the staff looked down on them because they could not speak English?

From the video clip, this @Amy_tashiana could speak Mandarin. Wondering why she refused to speak to her in Mandarin to communicate with her but insisting that the worker must speak in English. The purpose of learning more languages is to communicate with others in a language that both can understand. I learn Malay because I can speak to Malaysians in Malay when needed. It would be foolish and arrogantly stupid of me not to use Malay when the other person could only speak Malay but not English, and insisting the other person must speak to me in English even in Singapore... and acting that I am very smart or clever just because I could speak English.

 

A little knowledge is dangerous. The Chinese have a phrase for it, pua tang sai.

With Pritam Singh now becoming so popular with his no English cannot work in Singapore proposal, the MOM may want to consider this seriously and keep out all the Chinese from coming here to work. Their presence have made these English speaking 'experts' very irritated and unhappy. They may even get violent. Clever people only speak English in Singapore!

The next GE there would be many English speaking supporters voting for Pritam Singh and the WP. Pritam Singh and the WP would sure get a lot of votes from the English speakers. Not sure if the non English speaking Ah Mas and Ah Gongs would vote for them.

What do you think?

PS. If this Pritam proposal is to be adopted, then we should change our Constitution on the four official languages and just have one language, English only. Our national pledge about 'regardless of language' should be removed as well. What about the national anthem, change to English also?

American antique in South China Sea

US destroyer warned away in South China Sea – Beijing

Washington has denied claims its warship was ‘expelled’ and says it will continue to sail in the region

FILE PHOTO: USS Milius. © Wikipedia


China claims it monitored and "warned off" a US Navy destroyer, after detecting it near the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea on Thursday. This comes as tensions between Beijing and Washington in the region continue to grow.

The guided-missile destroyer USS Milius "illegally entered" into Chinese territorial waters, Senior Colonel Tian Junli, a spokesman for the country's Navy Southern Theater Command, stated in a press release. The move "has seriously jeopardized peace and stability in the South China Sea," the official added.

The incident occurred near the Paracel islands as sea and air forces tracked the US destroyer "in accordance with the law, and warned it off." Tian added that the Navy was ready to "take all necessary measures to safeguard national sovereignty, security as well as peace and stability" in the region.  RT

 

The Americans and the West used to use this kind of museum pieces to frighten small and weak countries. Today the dumb Americans still think this piece of scrap iron can frighten China. When it comes to the South China Sea, there will be at least 10 Chinese warships surrounding it, and in the air there will be fighter aircraft, and under the sea there will be submarines. A piece of antique like this is only allowed to float in the South China Sea at the pleasure of the PLAN. It can be sunk to the bottom of the sea anytime the PLAN wants to do it.

The Australian pilots need to be treated by the shrink every time they flew to the South China Sea and met Chinese fighter aircraft.  They wet in their pants and had nightmares over the incidents. The American sailors in these antique scrap iron pieces must be praying on their knees hoping that the PLAN would not sink them. Like the American said, sinking these antique pieces is a piece of cake.

Who did the Americans think they could frighten China with museum pieces? Or it was them that were wetting their pants everytime they were ordered to sail into the South China sea?

America going after Credit Suisse, next will be Saudi Arabia

Credit Suisse earthquake was generated to divert attention away from USA's banking meltdown. Now the whole world is fixated on Credit Suisse, and they claimed that the collapse of three banks in USA is not problematic for the USA banking sector. The collapse of Credit Suisse, a too big to fail bank, will cause a global financial tsunami. The takeover of Credit Suisee by UBS, termed a 'shotgun merger' for US$3.23 billion managed to avoid the catastrophe, but is it really over? Is US$3.23 billion realistic for such a big bank?

The USA Government had been targeting Credit Suisse, including other Swiss banks like UBS, for decades, over the Swiss Banking System that allows the super rich and drug lords to stash their ill gotten gains, to evade tax and avoid getting caught, into Swiss Banks away from their reach. This is a hard pill to swallow for the US Government. It then enacted laws to make sure the Swiss Banking System falls in line with the USA dictates or face the USA's wrath.

UBS had paid US$750 million (if I am not mistaken) in fines and penalties to the US Government over tax fraud charges in 2021, for helping rich USA depositors evade tax. That is not the only occasion.

Credit Suisse biggest shareholders includes the Saudi Families, who thought that Swiss Banks were the safest place to keep their enormous wealth, and to invest in them as well. When Credit Suisse was facing collapse, the Saudis decided not to burrow themselves deeper into the shithole by helping with further investments, and that tells us that the Saudis are waking up to the danger of having too much of their wealth in the hands of the West. They finally saw what happened to the Russians.

After all, Mohammed bin Salman clearly knows sooner or later the USA will settle the score with him and his other families for refusing to increase oil production, and even reducing them. Just a short while ago, the loan facilitation move in Yuan, between Exim Bank of China and the Saudi National Bank is the official signal that trade between China and Saudi Arabia is going to be based on the Yuan or Riyal, and bypassing the US$. This is a big move and do you expect the USA to sit quietly by and watch?

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France - What a beautiful sight! Where is Pelosi?

France protests said to be ‘out of control’

Police clashed with over a million demonstrators opposed to President Macron’s pension reform

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French authorities struggled on Thursday to suppress the protests against President Emmanuel Macron’s pension reform. Over a million demonstrators took to the streets across the country in what some security sources described as an “insurrection” against the government in Paris. RT

France is not the only country in Europe that is seeing mass demonstrations on the streets. UK, Germany and a few others are also having street protests against the Ukraine War and inflation. 

The good thing, the rest of the world are peaceful and quiet. Just let Europe burn. Let them have all their fun, all their democracy, all their freedom, and all their wars. Just leave the rest of the world alone.

Greatest threat to the USA is Peace

 The greatest threat to the USA is not China, but Peace. Peace in the world would bring an end to the evil American Empire that is built around war and a war economy. When there is Peace in the world, the Americans would be lost. They would not know what to do, many employed just to agitate for wars would be jobless. The whole Military Industrial Complex would be out of business. All the American military bases in the world would be redundant, so would all the aircraft carriers, military aircraft, ICBMs, weapons of mass destruction and all the supporting war industries.

Employment would become the number one problem in the USA when the American war machine is crippled due to its irrelevance. All the CIA operators would be out of work. All the fake news about threats and enemies would become jokes.

The nearly US$1 trillion military budget would be totally extravagant without wars, without enemies.

When there is Peace in the world, the Americans would have to create jobs for themselves, to make themselves useful again as responsible people, not warmongers and murderers, not merchants of war. There will be no one to buy their expensive war machine, no more needs for military gangs aka allies.

The latest peace deal between Iran and Saudi Arabia brokered by China is being condemned by the Americans, calling it a threat to American interests. The Americans are all out to break this Peace deal. This is how evil the Americans are, all set to create war and against Peace.  Peace is against the interests of the Americans, an evil Empire thriving on wars and instability and selling weapons to kill and destruct in wars.

China's proposal for a ceasefire in Ukraine and to start Peace negotiation is condemned by the Americans and the Americans also said there cannot be ceasefire.

The people of the world have woken up to the evilness of the Americans. Everyone wants Peace except the Americans. Only the blind and idiotic are still supporting the evil Americans in their warmongering and evil ways.