Tag Archives: KHAW BOON WAN

The Ministry of National Development (MND) on Friday (Mar 20) applied to the court to appoint Independent Accountants, in order to safeguard government grants to the Aljunied-Hougang-Punggol East Town Council (AHPETC). The court documents were served on the town council on Friday.

I was looking through the NUS internet yesterday, checking for admissions for my younger sister when I chanced upon this advertisement for INDIA students to apply for places in NUS? Like only 20% of our local students can get into university only, so why they still need to recruit from other countries? Does the PAP think we are dumb to not notice all this?

A growing number of infirm Singaporeans are being admitted to nursing homes in Johor Baru as prices there are as low as half price of Singapore's. For example, at City Heart Care nursing home, patients pay $900 a month for a two-bedded private room. A similar room in Singapore would cost more than $1,800. Major nursing home players are considering expanding in Johor Baru due to the burgeoning demand.

When buying a house, no matter if it is new or old, there are always defects. Even new houses might come with defects. And the problem is, most of the defects are hidden, subtle and not visible to the eye. Or better said, not anyone looks for them. We show you 7 places in the home to check for defects, just so you can be sure you are getting the perfect house/apartment for you.

National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan on Tuesday (Mar 10) reiterated that Singapore wants to see a "soft landing" for its housing market. 2014 was the first full year that home prices fell after several years of increase, amid Government measures to cool the property market. HDB resale flat prices slipped by six per cent, while private homes saw a four per cent decline.

The Housing Board (HDB) has rejected the requests of unhappy flat buyers for refunds of their new flats in Sengkang, made last month when they discovered that a temple with a commercial columbarium would be built near their estate. The project will no longer go ahead as planned.

Unable to stand incompetent overpaid dead weights who cannot do their jobs properly as required, National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan told parliament on Feb. 12, 2015 that MPs who caused lapses to occur must commit suicide via hara-kiri, as a matter of atonement and accepting responsibility for failure. Following his speech in Parliament, security staff were seen rushing to put a number of PAP MPs deemed to be of the greatest threat to themselves on 24-hour suicide watch surveillance.

In Parliament today (29 Jan), National Development Minister Khaw Boon Wan revealed that until the recent case in Sengkang, the Government had never awarded a place-of-worship site to a company that was not affiliated to a religious organisation. “We now understand that the winning tenderer for this site, Eternal Pure Land, is actually a private company without any religious affiliation,” he said.

We are delighted and glad that Minister Khaw has the moral courage to admit that HDB and URA have made a mistake in awarding the tender to a commercial entity to run the Chinese Temple. We thank Minister Khaw for setting this for the record so that in future tender for land slated for religious use will have a clearer directive to prevent commercialization of religions.

Khaw said his Ministry is in discussion with Eternal Pure Land to ensure that the land is restored to its original purpose of building a Chinese temple. Some residents in Fernvale Lea are unhappy over the latest announcement.