From: cheeweit@iscs.nus.sg (Benjamin) Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore Subject: SBA, Regulations and "Keeping Our Backyard Clean" Date: 11 Jul 1996 12:51:57 GMT Organization: the Sity Lines: 12 Message-ID: <4s2tdd$knm@nuscc.nus.sg> The dreaded SBA Regulations are out, released this morning (Thursday July 11th). As we feared. =( You can check the full text of the press release at (nope, not the SBA homepage but at) : http://www.sintercom.org/form.html -- Benjamin Chee in the 'Sity Homepage Gillian Anderson Photo Gallery "Sigh ...." From: Tan Chong Kee Newsgroups: soc.culture.singapore Subject: SBA regulation Date: 12 Jul 1996 04:07:32 GMT Organization: Stanford University Lines: 49 Message-ID: <4s4j24$jvb@nntp.Stanford.EDU> X-XXMessage-ID: X-XXDate: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 21:11:18 GMT Dear everyone, If you haven't seen the press release and full text of the new regulation yet, you can go to http://www.sintercom.org/form.html While there, please also sign the form and write down your comment, be they for or against. We need to let SBA and MITA know how we feel. We must let them know that many of us are concern with the direction it is heading. This means we must start writing letters to the newspapers and MITA. If we keep quiet now it will be taken as consent. Chong Kee This is what I have written. You can use it or write your own. Instead of trying to ensure more and more Singaporeans are able to think critically so as to increase our edge in this global competitive age, the SBA regulation's effect will be to make less and less Singaporeans willing to take any initiative for bettering of our country. How can this, in all seriousness, be in Singapore's long term interest? How can it benefit us if we create a situation where everyone would hesitate to speak when they see problematic trends develop in our country, worrying that what they say can be easily construed as attempts to 'excite disaffection against the Government'? This is getting unhealthily close to executing the bringer of bad news. I hope the SBA will have the best interest of Singaporean in mind and re-examine this regulation. ---------------------------------- ADDRESSES MITA: fax 3757765 -- attn to the Permanent Secretary, MITA Straits Time: Leslie Fong, Editor Paul Jansen, Asia One version Editor straits@cyberway.com.sg Business Times: The Editor, The Business Times, 390 Kim Seng Road, Singapore 239495 btletter@asia1.com.sg