Tag Archives: TAIWAN

This report says that some fresh graduates are sending 20 to 50 job applications, yet unable to get interviews, much less a job offer. This report shows rising unemployment in Singapore, more jobseekers than openings, and more workers laid off. There are more than 60,000 unemployed Singaporeans. Yet, we're going to Taiwan to recruit Cisco officers.

According to a news report by the Taipei Times, Singapore has allegedly denied entry to Taiwan's ex-Deputy Minister of National Defense Lee Shying-jow, despite tacit agreement that his visit to Singapore was approved. This came after Hong Kong customs officials seized terrex armoured vehicles belonging to Singapore after they were being shipped home after military training exercises in Taiwan. Is Lee Shying-jow's reported denied entry linked to China's persistent pressuring of Singapore over its relationship with Taiwan?

4 Singaporean undergraduates, aged 20 to 25, were arrested by Taiwanese police after a wild night, in which the 4 men allegedly participated in the rape of 2 drunk Taiwanese women.

China's state run tabloid The Global Times wrote on Tuesday (29 November 2016) that the 9 Singaporean troop carriers which had been confiscated by China should be melted down at the steel mills to express their displeasure with Singapore over its military relationship with Taiwan. The Global Times wrote a scathing report blasting Singapore for its careless handling of its armoured vehicles and said that this implied Singapore's failure to take China's displeasure over the long standing Taiwan relationship seriously.

The Singapore Police Force (SPF) and the Singapore Civil Defence Force have received an application by the Singapore Color Run organizers for a permit to hold their event, said the SPF in a statement today. The agencies will be considering the safety aspects of the run before deciding on whether to grant the go-ahead.

The only Singaporean, 18 year-old Megan Loy, who was hurt in the Taiwan Water Park blast last weekend (27th June) was on a graduation trip with her friends. She had gone to the party expecting to have a good time, but ended up with 50% burns on her body - she is currently fighting for her life in an intensive care unit at Shuang Ho hospital in New Taipei CIty.

A 21 year-old Singaporean student, surnamed Loy, was among the 500 over people who were left burnt and injured after flammable party powder ignited a crowd of revelers at a Taiwan Water Park. According to the Singapore trade office in Taipei, the student had been injured in the blaze at the Formosa Fun Coast Water Park in New Taipei City, adding that their officials have been in touch with the family to render assistance.

At least 472 people, with about 100 of them injured seriously, were sent to hospital yesterday after flammable powder ignited and caused a huge explosion in mid-air at a water theme park in Taiwan. At about 8.30PM, the flammable powder was sprayed into the air as part of a show at Formosa Fun Coast, but for unknown reasons caught fire and exploded.

I was so ashamed when I see Taiwanese protesting in support of Amos Yee. It breaks my heart that many Singaporeans still holds a grudge against him and wants to see him jailed for exercising his Freedom of Speech. I hope that places with real Democracy like Taiwan where people can protest freely will offer Amos Yee safe passage and grant him citizenship so that he will not have to suffer anymore such ridiculous indignation and persecution in Singapore.

The Covenants Watch group together with many non-governmental organisations from Taiwanese civil society organised a protest outside the Singapore Trade Office in Taipei today (26 Jun). They were protesting against the continued detention of Amos Yee. Representatives from the various organisations of the Taiwanese civil society have demanded the immediate release of 16-year-old Amos Yee.