Opposition pulls off shock victory at Malaysia GE14

[Joyymum]

I think the interview was conducted recently before the election as mentioned in the show

[starlight1968sg]

Grandypa:

Anyone watch 焦点 on channel 8 last night?


Mediacorp interviewed Dr. M before the election. He said the water price at 3 sen is too cheap and must be reviewed if he won the GE.

The agreement to sell water to SG for 3 sen that run till 2061.

I watched and guess he is coming to haunt us soon.

[floppy]

Joyymum:

I think the interview was conducted recently before the election as mentioned in the show

2 years isn't recent.... but 2 years can also be recent. Time is relative.

Also, it's not difficult to understand why Tun said it the way he said it :evil:

The 1962 Water Agreement between the two countries has a provision for a review of the water prices after 25 years, i.e. in 1987. Malaysia consciously chose not to review the price in 1987 because someone thought Singapore would also revise its price of treated water (which someone admitted in 2002). Unfortunately for them (fortunately for us), the agreement is registered with the UN and is binding on both countries. Due to someone's decision, Malaysia has probably lost tens of billions or even hundreds of billions in potential revenue for the next 75 years.

Who is the \"someone\"? The someone is PM in 1987, i.e. the one being interviewed lor
He knows the agreement can't be 'reviewed' but he has to say it before the election in order to blunt a possible attack from Jib and friends. There are still scores of people in MY blaming him for missing the opportunity of earning billions of potential revenue from us.

More interesting for me is why Focus wanna whip out this interview now.

PS: For more info, kindly refer to former Foreign Minister, Prof Jayakumar speech in Parliament in 2002. He had done a very good job explaining (but apparently, very few people were paying attention).

[3Boys]

Estéema:

Angelsdontexist,


Can u refrain fr posting comments fr other forums? We can read them for ourselves.

UNLESS YOU hv something else to say abt THAT comment. Pls exercise restrain, as the community can see what u're up to.

Don't try doing this kind of thing again.

Kinda thinking Angelsdontexist is a bot of sorts, or at least it's a human behaving like a bot, incapable of independent thought!

[3Boys]

A whole lot of negativity here......


Yes, Tun M may not be as friendly to SG as his predecessor.

But Najib really hurt Malaysia, my friends who are Malaysians couldn't wait to oust him, as of the prior election in 2013 his BN coalition had already lost the popular vote. 1MDB was corruption and kleptocracy at it's worst. Time now to clean house at the police and courts.

The bad guy lost, that's got to be worth celebrating. :rahrah:

[floppy]

3Boys:

Kinda thinking Angelsdontexist is a bot of sorts, or at least it's a human behaving like a bot, incapable of independent thought!

Welcome back.
You must have missed his/her/it other handler: annielovesboogeydog and areyoustressed :rotflmao:
You will learn to ignore after a while.

[3Boys]

floppy:

3Boys:

Kinda thinking Angelsdontexist is a bot of sorts, or at least it's a human behaving like a bot, incapable of independent thought!

Welcome back.
You must have missed his/her/it other handler: annielovesboogeydog and areyoustressed :rotflmao:
You will learn to ignore after a while.

Thanks floppy!

Yeah. Irksome nonetheless.

[Grandypa]

I think Dr M will replace GST with goods and service tax then increase the price of water to sg to cover For the loss of revenue ( via gst)


I am sure dr M knows the spore govt already making additional 30% more profit on the water sold to its citizens

[Grandypa]

floppy:

Grandypa:

Anyone watch 焦点 on channel 8 last night?


Mediacorp interviewed Dr. M before the election. He said the water price at 3 sen is too cheap and must be reviewed if he won the GE.

The agreement to sell water to SG for 3 sen that run till 2061.

“before the election” refers to an interview 2 years ago :skeptical:

We buy water at 3sen per 1000gallon. We sell them back at 50sen per 1000gallon. When they raise the water selling price, they will have to pay a higher buying price. :skeptical:
Considering that Johor depends on us to treat part of their water and Singapore is no longer 100% reliant on their water, not sure we should be that bothered. Tun is no mathematician but he can still manage simple arithmetic. He is also a shrewd politician who knows how to whip his electorate to support him.

But for 焦点 to throw out an interview from a long time ago (2 years is a long time in politics)? Probably still trying to do Jib gor a favour.

i think you are not aware that Johor have built their own water treatment plants and need not depend on ours.

the electricity cost for them to treat water is much lower than us as they have own self produced crude oil, natural gas to generate electricity.

indeed, they can sell electricity to us at the rate cheaper than it cost us to produce electricity.

[Estéema]

3Boys:

floppy:

[quote=\"3Boys\"]
Kinda thinking Angelsdontexist is a bot of sorts, or at least it's a human behaving like a bot, incapable of independent thought!

Welcome back.
You must have missed his/her/it other handler: annielovesboogeydog and areyoustressed :rotflmao:
You will learn to ignore after a while.

Thanks floppy!

Yeah. Irksome nonetheless.[/quote]
Irksome & pesty!

Must work together as a community @ KSP to ensure we're not inviting ppl throwing smoke into our face & quietly disappear.