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SG Daily: 8 May 2009
Posted by singaporedaily on May 8th, 2009
MSK Caught. The Atonement of the Wong that Can’t Sing
- The Wayang Party: Mas Selamat captured in Johor by Malaysian authorities which make a fool out of WKS!!!
- TOC: Mas Selamat’s capture: Why only inform us now?
- Simply Gab: the series of self-back-patting
- Diary of A Singaporean Mind: Mas Selamat CAPTURED!!!
- ALVINOLOGY: Mas Selamat Kastari captured in Johor!
- Jialat.com: Mas Selamat Caught But Not Sent Back To Singapore Yet, Why?
- CNA: Singapore’s JI leader Mas Selamat arrested in Malaysia
- Reuters: Singapore’s most-wanted militant arrested after escape
- AP: Top Islamic terror suspect held
- The Void Deck: Flash: Mas Selamat Tio Tangkap! [Thanks uncle]
AWARE Takeover Aftermath
- Yawning Bread: Education Ministry suspends AWARE’s sexuality education program
- The Wayang Party: The AWARE steeplejackers and their deep connections to Joel’s Army and American dominionists
- Almost Infamous: Josie and the DBS Credit Card Boycott
- Singapore Life and Times: Silvery tongue
- defragment.me: Stop feeding the fear mongers
- Project Lucy: Let’s have an omelette for gaiety [Thanks Project Lucy]
- The Lycan Times: CSE and the role of MOE
- Sex sells, so does Politics: How an IT guy will teach school sexuality programmes
Revenge of the Mandarins
- The Kent Ridge Common: When meeting the people’s session becomes an occupational hazard
- My Thoughts…: Uniquely Singapore: One Low IQ Boy vs Two Low EQ MPs [Thanks Ganga]
- Chee Wai’s Random Musings: 17 year-old arrested for public display of anger.
Singapore Sports Awards 2009
- The Singapore Sports Fan: Snub of Churchill and Foo shows that the Sports Awards are a farce [Thanks SFF]
- Singapore Recalcitrant: The disservice to coach Liu Guo-dong
- Today In Singapore: These Women Are From Mars
H1N1 Swine Flu
- The Kent Ridge Common: Out of the world logic in reducing MRT train frequency when swine flu pandemic alert reaches red
Daily Discourse
- TOC: Job satisfaction - inadequate measures to protect workers
- Singaporean Skeptic: 7 wrong things we teach our children!
- Seelan Palay’s Blog: North Korean President Kim on 3-day working visit to Singapore [Thanks Seelan]
Life, the universe and everything
- Empty Vessel: Why, God, why?
May 8th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
Thanks folks!
Looks like the MSK Fever will enjoy another wave…
May 10th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Mas Selamat’s re-arrest not the end of Singapore’s problem
By Cheryl Lim, Channel NewsAsia | Posted: 09 May 2009 1851 hrs
SINGAPORE: Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong has said Singapore’s security challenge is to keep up its guard without getting fatigued or complacent.
In his first remarks on the capture of Mas Selamat Kastari, Mr Lee said Singapore must not think that the re-arrest of the Jemaah Islamiyah (JI) leader is the end of its problem.
He said the terrorism situation in Southeast Asia is under control, but the threat is far from over. He added that the price of security is eternal vigilance.
In a statement to the media on Saturday, the Prime Minister also said information about the capture of Mas Selamat on April 1 was not made public earlier because of a prior agreement with the Malaysian authorities.
Mr Lee said he was told about the arrest by his Malaysian counterpart Najib Razak on April 11 during an impromptu four-eye lunch in Thailand’s Pattaya after the ASEAN meeting was called off due to demonstrations.
He thanked Datuk Seri Najib for Malaysia’s generous support and help, and told him Singapore’s Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister Wong Kan Seng had earlier told him of the arrest.
Mr Lee said he was happy and relieved that Mas Selamat had been found and arrested before he could do any harm.
But Malaysia had asked Singapore to keep this information quiet for the time being, so Singapore respected this and held the information very tightly in order not to jeopardise the operation.
However, on the afternoon of May 7 during a weekly pre-Cabinet meeting lunch, Mr Wong received a phone call informing him that the Internal Security Department (ISD) had received a request from the The Straits Times to confirm a scoop that Mas Selamat had been arrested by the Malaysian authorities.
As the news had leaked, the Singapore government had no choice but to confirm the story.
Ministers who were present at the lunch were completely taken by surprise when Mr Wong told them that Mas Selamat had been arrested.
In his statement, Mr Lee also thanked all officers involved in tracking down Mas Selamat over the past year. He said he never had a doubt that Mas Selamat would be found because he knew the quality and commitment of the ISD officers working on this.
He said the ISD had recovered quickly from the mistakes which led to Mas Selamat’s escape from the Whitley Road Detention Centre in February last year.
Mr Lee also thanked the ISD and its Malaysian counterpart, the Special Branch, for working closely together.
- CNA/ir
First time I hear of ST getting leaks. I thought their leaks are all from MHA?