benefits of death posted on Sunday, February 26, 2006
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FIFTEEN people continued to pay for their insurance premiums from their graves.
By Tan Mae Lynn
FIFTEEN people continued to pay for their insurance premiums from their graves.
Yes, the premiums for their Dependants' Protection Scheme (DPS) continued to be deducted from their CPF accounts even though they were already dead.
This startling fact was revealed in the 5 Jul Auditor-General's report.
In total, the CPF Board collected $2,996 from them. It continued the deductions as it didn't know they were dead. So, the insurance claims due to their families were not paid out either.
There were 201 others, too, whose claims were not paid by the CPF Board.
The report revealed that the insurance claims of 216 people, amounting to $7.4 million, were not given to their next-of-kin.
The policies include DPS and the Home Protection Scheme (HPS).
What's more, half of the 216 people had died more than two years ago, including 43 who died more than eight years ago.
Singaporeans who use their CPF funds to pay for their HDB housing loans have to be insured under HPS, provided they are in good health.
The scheme helps their families pay off any outstanding loan on the flat should they die before the age of 65 or if they become permanently incapacitated physically or mentally.
Under DPS, a CPF member's family can receive up to $44,000 in insurance claim if he or she dies or become physically or mentally disabled.
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19 July 2005, The Electric NewPaper
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Book Sale posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 | 0 comments
Introducing Sociology
Introducing Freud
Introducing Chomsky
Introducing mathematics
Introducing Melanie Klein
Introducing Psychoanalysis
Introducing Lacan
Introducing wittgenstein
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The impossibility of sex
Sexuality and society
Lust
people like us - sexual minorities in singapore
What Jung really said
Plato not Prozac
Friedrich Nietzche
Routledge philosophy guide book to Kierkegaard and fear and trembling
How to choose
Killing the Buddha a heretic's bible
Think like a shrink
The consolations of philosophy
Kiekegaard for beginners
reading people
Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology
going mad
101 key ideas psychology
The 100 simple secrets of happy people
The 100 simple secrets of successful people
The 100 simple secrets of great relationships
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(Oxford University Press)
Augustine A very short introduction
Marx a very short introduction
The Bible a very short introduction
Paul a very short introduction
Sociology a very short introduction
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Pocket dictionary of apologetics & philosophy of religion
The single issue
The Unique Woman
Cultic & occultic movements
Truth to proclaim
A hear ablaze
the bait of satan
The Bible Code
--
The Zahir
The valkyries
The pilgrimage
Manual of the warrior of light
The Devil and Miss Pyrm
Death: At Death's door
The man in the cupboard
Life is elsewhere
--
For the glory of God
Islam A short history
The middle east
Intimate knowledge - women and their health in north-east thailand
women in asia
Imperial ambitions
The dynasties of china
China condensed
The making of singapore sociology
The boxer rebellion
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The Blank Slate
How the mind works
The History of western philosophy
What I believe
Why I am not a christian
Totem and Taboo
The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
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Numerical Methods 2nd edition
Introduction to linear regression analysis, 3rd edition
Elementary Linear Algebra
Elementary numerical analysis 2nd edition
Operations Research an introduction 6th edition
Computer Organisation & design - the hardware / software interface
The Mathematica Book 4th edition
Calculus 9th edition
The Calculus 7
Discrete mathematics with applications 2nd edition
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a loaf of bread posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 | 0 comments
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We refer to the news report, "20 workers resign to protest boss' removal" (Feb 8) and seek to clarify some issues raised in the article.
First, 19 workers resigned and not 20 as reported in the article. Second, the article also indicated that one of our drivers had been sacked for wrongly recording the number of loaves sent to a supermarket.
It was further reported that the driver's supervisor, sales executive Jackie Ong — who had tried to cover up for the driver's mistake — was also sacked by the company.
We wish to clarify that this was not the case.
We deliver freshly-baked High 5 bread daily to our vendors and collect any unsold loaves from the previous day's delivery.
With reference to the reported incident, the driver collected 29 unsold loaves from the supermarket but recorded only 19. This left 10 loaves unaccounted for.
After conducting an extensive internal investigation, the findings warranted a termination of the driver's employment.
We also found that Mr Ong, the driver's supervisor, had been privy to his mistake and failed to proactively report it to the management.
We reviewed the severity of the matter with Mr Ong and reached a decision for both parties to part ways.
Silver Bird also waived his notice period and further compensated him with a pro- rated salary, bonus and commission package.
Several of the workers who resigned have since contacted Silver Bird to pledge their support for the company and have asked to be reinstated.
We are happy to say that five were reinstated last week. We are in discussions with the rest.
extracted from http://www.todayonline.com/articles/100878.asp
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Puzzle of migrating S'poreans posted on Saturday, February 04, 2006 | 0 comments
Are they put off by foreign talent or lured by less stress?
Letter from Lim Boon Hee
It has been a new spring that left me with mixed feelings about what it really means to be a native-born Singaporean.
I realised that two of my cousins' families have migrated without saying a word or leaving any contacts.
Whether it means leaving Singapore for good or not I don't know. One has gone to the United States and the other to Australia after living in Hong Kong for two years.
Another first cousin is suffering in silence the heartache of her eldest son not returning home after completing his university studies overseas.
Had she not been rich and able to send him overseas, she would still have had her eldest son beside her to see her to a ripe old age.
This set me thinking.
Why are so many middle-aged university-educated professional Singaporeans leaving?
Is it the National Service, our education system or the changes in our society that are pushing them away?
Has the influx of foreign "talents" from India and China made them feel that being citizens count for very little nowadays or is it the pull of greener pastures where life is less pressurised and less stressful?
Friends tell me that in Canada, you are very well taken care of by the state insofar as education, medical and welfare are concerned.
The children there do not have to be dragged to school before the sun is up and "forced" to stay in school till 6pm or even later for co-curricular activities.
That my cousins left quietly the soil where they were born and educated without any fanfare or leaving any form of contacts can only mean one thing — they are cutting all ties with their motherland for good.
Are our policies inadvertently driving our own talents away while taking in foreigners as new citizens?
This vicious cycle cannot be good for Singapore. Yes, we welcome foreign talent but not at the expense of our own sons and daughters born and educated here.
Are they put off by foreign talent or lured by less stress?
Letter from Lim Boon Hee
- extracted from http://www.todayonline.com/articles/98739.asp
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The NKF's finances won't be the only thing under scrutiny in Parliament, starting today. Overshadowed, but not forgotten, the Auditor-General's 2004-05 report has also caused concern
FIFTEEN people continued to pay for their insurance premiums from their graves.
By Tan Mae Lynn
FIFTEEN people continued to pay for their insurance premiums from their graves.
Yes, the premiums for their Dependants' Protection Scheme (DPS) continued to be deducted from their CPF accounts even though they were already dead.
This startling fact was revealed in the 5 Jul Auditor-General's report.
In total, the CPF Board collected $2,996 from them. It continued the deductions as it didn't know they were dead. So, the insurance claims due to their families were not paid out either.
There were 201 others, too, whose claims were not paid by the CPF Board.
The report revealed that the insurance claims of 216 people, amounting to $7.4 million, were not given to their next-of-kin.
The policies include DPS and the Home Protection Scheme (HPS).
What's more, half of the 216 people had died more than two years ago, including 43 who died more than eight years ago.
Singaporeans who use their CPF funds to pay for their HDB housing loans have to be insured under HPS, provided they are in good health.
The scheme helps their families pay off any outstanding loan on the flat should they die before the age of 65 or if they become permanently incapacitated physically or mentally.
Under DPS, a CPF member's family can receive up to $44,000 in insurance claim if he or she dies or become physically or mentally disabled.
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19 July 2005, The Electric NewPaper
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Book Sale posted on Monday, February 20, 2006 | 0 comments
(Totem Books)
Introducing Sociology
Introducing Freud
Introducing Chomsky
Introducing mathematics
Introducing Melanie Klein
Introducing Psychoanalysis
Introducing Lacan
Introducing wittgenstein
--
The impossibility of sex
Sexuality and society
Lust
people like us - sexual minorities in singapore
What Jung really said
Plato not Prozac
Friedrich Nietzche
Routledge philosophy guide book to Kierkegaard and fear and trembling
How to choose
Killing the Buddha a heretic's bible
Think like a shrink
The consolations of philosophy
Kiekegaard for beginners
reading people
Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology
going mad
101 key ideas psychology
The 100 simple secrets of happy people
The 100 simple secrets of successful people
The 100 simple secrets of great relationships
--
(Oxford University Press)
Augustine A very short introduction
Marx a very short introduction
The Bible a very short introduction
Paul a very short introduction
Sociology a very short introduction
--
Pocket dictionary of apologetics & philosophy of religion
The single issue
The Unique Woman
Cultic & occultic movements
Truth to proclaim
A hear ablaze
the bait of satan
The Bible Code
--
The Zahir
The valkyries
The pilgrimage
Manual of the warrior of light
The Devil and Miss Pyrm
Death: At Death's door
The man in the cupboard
Life is elsewhere
--
For the glory of God
Islam A short history
The middle east
Intimate knowledge - women and their health in north-east thailand
women in asia
Imperial ambitions
The dynasties of china
China condensed
The making of singapore sociology
The boxer rebellion
--
The Blank Slate
How the mind works
The History of western philosophy
What I believe
Why I am not a christian
Totem and Taboo
The protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism
--
Numerical Methods 2nd edition
Introduction to linear regression analysis, 3rd edition
Elementary Linear Algebra
Elementary numerical analysis 2nd edition
Operations Research an introduction 6th edition
Computer Organisation & design - the hardware / software interface
The Mathematica Book 4th edition
Calculus 9th edition
The Calculus 7
Discrete mathematics with applications 2nd edition
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How to do everything with dreamweaver 4
Macromedia flash advanced for windows & macintosh
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a loaf of bread posted on Saturday, February 18, 2006 | 0 comments
Letter from Leo Lee, General Manager, Silver Bird Foods (S) Pte Ltd
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We refer to the news report, "20 workers resign to protest boss' removal" (Feb 8) and seek to clarify some issues raised in the article.
First, 19 workers resigned and not 20 as reported in the article. Second, the article also indicated that one of our drivers had been sacked for wrongly recording the number of loaves sent to a supermarket.
It was further reported that the driver's supervisor, sales executive Jackie Ong — who had tried to cover up for the driver's mistake — was also sacked by the company.
We wish to clarify that this was not the case.
We deliver freshly-baked High 5 bread daily to our vendors and collect any unsold loaves from the previous day's delivery.
With reference to the reported incident, the driver collected 29 unsold loaves from the supermarket but recorded only 19. This left 10 loaves unaccounted for.
After conducting an extensive internal investigation, the findings warranted a termination of the driver's employment.
We also found that Mr Ong, the driver's supervisor, had been privy to his mistake and failed to proactively report it to the management.
We reviewed the severity of the matter with Mr Ong and reached a decision for both parties to part ways.
Silver Bird also waived his notice period and further compensated him with a pro- rated salary, bonus and commission package.
Several of the workers who resigned have since contacted Silver Bird to pledge their support for the company and have asked to be reinstated.
We are happy to say that five were reinstated last week. We are in discussions with the rest.
extracted from http://www.todayonline.com/articles/100878.asp
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Puzzle of migrating S'poreans posted on Saturday, February 04, 2006 | 0 comments
Puzzle of migrating S'poreans
Are they put off by foreign talent or lured by less stress?
Letter from Lim Boon Hee
It has been a new spring that left me with mixed feelings about what it really means to be a native-born Singaporean.
I realised that two of my cousins' families have migrated without saying a word or leaving any contacts.
Whether it means leaving Singapore for good or not I don't know. One has gone to the United States and the other to Australia after living in Hong Kong for two years.
Another first cousin is suffering in silence the heartache of her eldest son not returning home after completing his university studies overseas.
Had she not been rich and able to send him overseas, she would still have had her eldest son beside her to see her to a ripe old age.
This set me thinking.
Why are so many middle-aged university-educated professional Singaporeans leaving?
Is it the National Service, our education system or the changes in our society that are pushing them away?
Has the influx of foreign "talents" from India and China made them feel that being citizens count for very little nowadays or is it the pull of greener pastures where life is less pressurised and less stressful?
Friends tell me that in Canada, you are very well taken care of by the state insofar as education, medical and welfare are concerned.
The children there do not have to be dragged to school before the sun is up and "forced" to stay in school till 6pm or even later for co-curricular activities.
That my cousins left quietly the soil where they were born and educated without any fanfare or leaving any form of contacts can only mean one thing — they are cutting all ties with their motherland for good.
Are our policies inadvertently driving our own talents away while taking in foreigners as new citizens?
This vicious cycle cannot be good for Singapore. Yes, we welcome foreign talent but not at the expense of our own sons and daughters born and educated here.
Are they put off by foreign talent or lured by less stress?
Letter from Lim Boon Hee
- extracted from http://www.todayonline.com/articles/98739.asp
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