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surprisingly, no china family... http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/Who-Are-A...654293.html?x=0

Chances are, if you do enough digging around in your family's past, you're going to come up with something unpleasant somewhere down the line. That's exactly what Germany's Quandt family, heirs to the BMW kingdom, found after an independent study discovered that Geunther Quandt (pictured at right), the grandfather of Gabriele, used an estimated 50,000 forced laborers in his arms factory. The workers were part of the Nazi "Aryanization" program. Gabriel Quandt said that it was wrong for her family to ignore this chapter of its past. The study, commissioned by the family, found that both Geunther and his son, Herbert, were responsible for Nazi injustices. Despite Gabriel Quandt's acknowledgement of the transgressions of her forbears, the family still plans to award the Herbert Quandt Media Prize. Stefan Quandt says that the prize should stand because of the values that Herbert conveyed on the company later in life.

ST Forum Couple raring to start family face housing woes LIKE Mr Lim Chong Wee, I too cannot realise my dreams of owning an HDB flat ("Stuck in housing limbo despite higher ceiling"; last Wednesday). I bought a small private studio apartment about five years ago when I was single and below 35 years old. The flat is under my name. However, I got married last year and am seeking to move to a bigger place for my wife and myself. We are both Singaporeans and we wanted to apply for a bigger matrimonial flat jointly to start a family. I have been trying to sell my current apartment at valuation so as to be eligible for an executive condominium (EC). However, HDB rules state that you have to wait 30 months after selling your property. Why is there a need for this 30-month clause? Where does the HDB expect us to live in the interim? Do they expect us to join the already heated-up rental market and rent a flat while waiting out the 30 months? The EC itself takes a few years to complete and that would further extend our waiting time. B. Elamaaran

To this stupid P Plate van at CTE today, either you go retake your driving license or you you have missed the 7th month mono intake... I am driving home with my wife and my two years old kid back from Mount Alvernia as my son is very sick for two days..U nearly make my whole family gone by crashing to the incoming car from my right lane.

Mother + Father + 3 daughters abuse youngest son. They want to kill him ??? No racist remarks please. http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/S...ory_686082.html Family of five charged with child abuse A FAMILY of five have been charged in court with child abuse. The couple and their three daughters aged 14, 20 and 24, faced between one and 14 charges. The 44-year-old woman, together with her daughters, allegedly splashed hot cooking oil on the 10-year-old boy's body, causing him to be permanently disfigured on the head and face in February 2011. They are also said to have pressed a heated ladle on his body and used a pair of scissors to snip his fingers last month. The three younger women - together with their 45-year-old father who is divorced - are accused of splashing hot water on the boy's body at their home in Hougang in 2009. The 44-year-old woman also faces a dozen other charges alone of hurting, threatening and using criminal force on the boy between 2009 and May 2011. Among other things, she is said to have splashed hot water and oil on him, scalded him with a hot iron, and pressed a hot ladle on his body and face. The four adults have been remanded for psychiatric examination and their cases will come up for mention in two weeks. The boy is currently under the care of the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports.

Surprised! occasionly found some maids drive car to fetch kids from school or tuition center \ can you imagine it?

There were still seats available in the cafe, but a family apparently did not allow their maid to sit with them. Instead, she stood in a corner, said STOMPer benji. The STOMPer tells us more (Apr 16): "I spotted this family at Marina Square, in the cafe Bao Today. "They apparently asked the maid to stand at one side. "Maid abuse? "Initially I noticed a figure standing behind me after the family came in. "The family noticed that I took pictures of them, so they asked her to sit down. But she was still left at the corner. "I approached her to offer her a drink but she just shook her head. Tears were welling up in her eyes. "She said she was part of that family. "She looked like she was quite new. "The family finished their food and left, but their maid did not eat a single bite."

Draw your own conclusions 死者的侄女（左）和妻子无法接受他去世，在殓尸房哭得呼天抢地。 中国管工疑在狮城工作被伊蚊叮死，家人来新向雇主索赔，价码节节高升，从10万到20万再增到50万，最后更扬言不赔60万就不领尸不火化！ 《联合晚报》日前报道，一名来自中国江苏的建筑工地管工周世强（43岁），疑患上骨痛溢血热症，发高烧5天后，上个月25日猝死。他的妻子、独生子、侄女急忙赶办手续，星期日抵新处理后事。 死者的家人认尸时，向记者哭诉死者的雇主处事不当，要他赔偿50万新元，若谈不妥就坚持不火化死者的遗体。 死者的侄女周云说，叔叔过世前一天还拨电回家，没想到隔天却接到他病逝的消息，令他们非常震惊。据了解，死者的家属抵新和雇主见面后，起初要求赔10万，过后增加到20万元。 她们星期一认尸时又告诉记者，要雇主赔偿50万元。不过据记者向雇主李先生询问，死者家属要求的最新赔偿是60万元。

AH, f--k! f--k! Panicking. Panicking...... Nothing much to say, other than needing a space to panic and rant. s--t f--k c--k

Complains from a foreigner. SIA must investigate the misgivings expressed and if found true, move on to improve the situation. Reputation is at stake. http://www.straitstimes.com/STForum/Online...ory_584164.html British family's SIA experience MY WIFE and I, together with our 11-year-old daughter, booked seats with Singapore Airlines (SIA) for flights to, from and within South-east Asia in April. Our original itinerary comprised the following flights: - Saturday, April 3, SQ 317: London to Singapore - Saturday, April 10, SQ 972: Singapore to Bangkok - Wednesday, April 14, SQ 975: Bangkok to Singapore - Friday, April 16, SQ 308: Singapore to London Due to the civil unrest in Thailand, we decided against travelling there and, with the help of a staff member at the Swissotel Merchant Court where we were staying, called SIA's office on April 8 to cancel our Bangkok flights on April 10 and 14. On April 13, an e-mail from Complete World Travel, the agency through which we had booked flights, informed us that it had received a call from SIA that our April 16 flight back to London was cancelled. The reason was that our cancellation of the Bangkok bookings classified us as a "no-show", which triggered the cancellation of our April 16 flight. I called the airline and spoke to a man who gave his name as Sandy Rodricks. He checked and confirmed that there was a record of the call to cancel the Thailand flights and not the London flight, and said he would ask one of his colleagues to look into the matter when the office opened in the morning. The next morning, I received a call to say we were confirmed on a flight to London leaving Singapore on April 16. But the seats allocated to us were unacceptable as we were separated from one another. I called SIA's office again and, after some considerable time, managed to get us seated together. We thought our problems were over. I tried to check us all in online, but could do so only for myself. I could not check my daughter in as she was a minor and the system would not allow me to add my wife to the check-in process. In desperation, we visited the SIA office in Orchard Turn where a very helpful and efficient woman staff member checked us in and printed our boarding passes. Unfortunately, we never took the flight because the Icelandic ash cloud intervened. Unfortunately, too, SIA proved equally unhelpful during our forced extended stay in Singapore, with no help or accurate information. Our claim for the additional costs incurred during that time has been handled unprofessionally and remains unresolved nearly six months later. All we received was an acknowledgement that SIA would investigate the matter. Peter Norman

SMC LAWYER TELLS COURT: Surgeon inflated $400 bill to $211,000 By Selina Lum A SPECIALIST who treated surgeon Susan Lim's patient sent a bill for $400. She marked it up to $211,000 when she billed the Brunei High Commission here. Another doctor charged $500, but Dr Lim bumped that up to $93,500. Yet another bill for $3,000 was raised to $285,100. These and several other revelations of how Dr Lim charged her patient - a woman member of Brunei's royal family - for treatment by other doctors were made in the High Court yesterday by Senior Counsel Alvin Yeo. Representing the Singapore Medical Council (SMC), he cited the allegedly inflated bills to show there was a case for a disciplinary committee to launch an inquiry against the doctor. Dr Lim is fighting the SMC's decision to appoint a second disciplinary committee to investigate an accusation by the Health Ministry here that she overcharged her Brunei patient, Pengiran Anak Hajah Damit. The patient, the younger sister of Brunei's Queen and a cousin of the Sultan, had breast cancer and died in August 2007. Dr Lim treated the woman from 2001 until she died. Dr Lim's lawyer, Senior Counsel Lee Eng Beng, told the court yesterday that she had informed the patient early on in their relationship that the close care and attention she needed would cost $100,000 to $200,000 a day. He said the patient had insisted on having Dr Lim as her doctor and, referring to the royal household, had assured Dr Lim she should not worry about the charges, saying: 'Istana is paying.' The Bruneians paid all her bills up to March 2007. But after the patient died, Dr Lim was queried on the rest of the 2007 bill, which came up to $24.8 million. After Dr Lim gave various discounts, the bill was eventually brought down to $3.25 million. Yesterday, the court heard for the first time the list of specific charges on the bills. Mr Yeo said that third-party specialists who treated the patient would send their bills to Dr Lim. She would then mark up the bills when she sent her invoices to the Brunei High Commission. Mr Yeo argued that the way the invoices were presented suggested those were the fees being charged by the other doctors or were intended for them. He stressed he was not asking the High Court to conclude that Dr Lim was overcharging, but that a disciplinary committee should look into the matter. Mr Yeo also said Dr Lim had charged the patient for cancelling two conferences, on top of treatment fees. One bill was for $78,000, while the other was for $180,000. She also charged between $35,000 and $45,000 a day when her employees accompanied the patient for radiotherapy sessions at the hospital. When the patient was in intensive care for five days in May 2007, attended to by hospital doctors and nurses, Dr Lim charged $450,000 for the first day and $250,000 for the other four days for 'monitoring services'. In July 2007, the Brunei High Commission alerted Brunei's Ministry of Health (MOHB), expressing concern over the 'very high bills' from Dr Lim. That month, two MOHB representatives came to Singapore and spoke to Dr Lim Cheok Peng, chief executive of Parkway Holdings, which runs the medical centres where Dr Lim has her clinics. She then started to reduce her fees. On Aug 1, 2007, she wrote to MOHB to disregard the bills that were for services provided by the other doctors, and gave a 25 per cent discount on her own bills. On Aug 18, 2007, she wrote to MOHB apologising for the 'inadvertent mistakes' made by her office. But on Aug 27, 2007, MOHB asked Singapore's Health Ministry to intervene, saying the charges were unacceptable. On Nov 12, 2007, Dr Lim wrote to MOHB, offering to waive her fees from Jan 15 to June 14, 2007, as a goodwill gesture and suggesting that it pay only $3.25 million. In January 2009, Dr Lim and her husband went to Brunei and offered to waive all her fees and third-party bills if MOHB was prepared to issue a 'letter of good standing'. The letter was to essentially state that the Brunei government would not pursue the matter any further and take no issue with her bills. Her request was not taken up. Dr Lim now claims she had a 'fee agreement' with her patient, but yesterday, pointing to her 'tactics', Mr Yeo said these were not the actions of someone who had an agreement. He argued that her move to stop the SMC from setting up a disciplinary committee was an abuse of process. The hearing continues on Monday.

How many of you work irregular hours or have a spouse doing so? Like maybe you need to work weekends or late into the night. How do you balance your work comitments with quality time with your kids? Or what if you and your spouse have such different schedules you rarely see each other during the week?

Vui Kong's family (his father, brothers, sisters, aunts and cousins), kneeling in front of the Istana this morning. The family was there to deliver their own petition to the President asking him to grant clemency to Vui Kong. Vui Kong is the second youngest in the family. Source You are entitled to your opinions. But do put yourself in their shoes and spare a thought.

..for their mini cooper, civic type r and merc. CCB rich family live in HDB for f**k!!! KNN, machiam so proud and pose with their ride in newspaper smemore! GTH!!!

found on taxiuncle site... will like to share here... this car almost kill his/her own family after visit the zoo... driver safe...

Which is better for a family sports sedan? OCT 2006 Legacy 2.0GT: $64,800 OMV $30,000 Depreciation $7,584 per year AUG 2007 Civic Type R: $80,000 OMV $27,000 Depreciation $9000 per year DEC 2006 EURO R: $71,000 OMV $27,000 Depreciation $8,730 per year APR 2006 MAZDA MPS: $66,000 OMV $34,500 Depreciation $8000 per year. Comparing value for money, power, F/C, etc.

Hi Fellow MCFer, A chance for you to win some cash and while spending time with your family. Family Car Rally 2010 is a fun-filled competition set to entertain while testing the family

Nick Heidfeld is set to welcome a third child to his family. The Mercedes reserve driver's wife Patricia is pregnant, according to the German newspaper Bild. Domiciled in Stafa, Switzerland, they already have two young children, a daughter Juni (4) and son Joda (2). "We're really looking forward to our third child," the veteran of 169 grands prix, who turns 33 in a few days, confirmed. Source: GMM

Maybe SG should scrap COE system and follow HK's system, bid for a car park before buying a car. http://www.asiaone.com/Motoring/Drivers/St...412-209879.html "Mercedes S-Class, Mercedes SLK, a Jaguar and a Ssangyong"

To those who heading north this weekend for reunion with family and relatives, do drive safely, courteously and considerately. Hope u guys reached your destination safe and enjoy the festive season with your loves one! 新年快乐 一帆风顺

After I parked by the side (ensuring no inconvenience to anyone), I was helping my maid uploading groceries into my car. A man came foward & confronted me - questioning me if I have scolded him a madman. I was shock! He said his son overheard I scolded him a madman. I said' whos your son?' Then he shouted across to his son if I was the one. A boy, >10yrs old came & pointed at me. I was "huh!!!???" Then the man's wife came & started scolding me for being rude. For God's sake, she was actually carrying a baby in her arms! With his wife, I was thinking of ignoring him. PS!!! - I had never seen them at all!!!! Ignoring him was impossible! He began to put his face towards mine as if he wanted a fight. I asked what he wanted; he kept shouting at me for scolding him, challenging me if I dare to touch him & instructed his wife to call police. At this stage, my wife came down from my car & both women exchanged words. I quietened my maid & wife to aside & asked the man : "what you want, if its a fight - are you ready now?" I raised both my hands up & I pointed my nose to his. A few seconds - then he told his wife that he dun wanna continue with this low life, disgraceful people (referring to me) & walked back to his car. Before he got in, he shouted "KNN!!!". I immediately moved forward to ask him to stay for the fight. He droved off. I continued loading the groceries with my maid....... My maid told me that car was actually blocking the lorries from loading/unloading previously. The workers were unhappy and 1 guy was actually signalling to fren such a mad driver blocking their way....... So WTF! This bloody man was wrong in the 1st place. Then confronted just b'cos his son (<10yrs old) mistaken me for that worker. Worst, so what even if I was the one who made the gesture (not even any impoliteness or vulgarities), and that was not made in front of him - does it warrant for a confrontation??!!! I'd at least reflect myself 1st before jumping to any rash acts. Btw, I'd be self-defence getting physicals cos' the man confronted me with hostility and the intention for harm!. He was lucky that I'm with my family!!!" I regretted NOT insisting fighting with him, simply b'cos his son will grow up to be a bully, cos his father will confront anyone his son pointed at - right or wrong! What I have witnessed today: - a man failed as a father, so was his wife as a mother - a young lad nourished by his parents to be a bully - an unrepentful b------d who was wrong yet trying to push his way I have never in the past 20 years, felt its worth a real fist fight is necessary until today. If it happens that you are the man and reading this - "we are both middle-aged, matured men & fathers, but what you did today . . . . I sincerely welcome you for the fight you asked for. Damn!!!

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If you're thinking of buying a car but your combined family income is below $7,650, think again. According to a local website salary.sg run by a finance manager, $7,650 is the minimum income needed to afford a car. Most families are not able to afford cars because the cost of car ownership does not only include the price but also the miscellaneous fees such as road taxes, car insurance and servicing, said the website. A small saloon will cost around $50,000. The more aspirational may go for a family MPV, which can go up to $80,000 or more. According to the Singapore Department of Statistics, 38 per cent of the households here own a car. The top 38 per cent highest-earning households also make more than $7,650 a month. Salary.sg said that the 38 per cent of the households which own a car may not be the same 38 per cent that form the highest-earning households in Singapore. But it went on to explain that this group of highest-earning households are most capable of owning a car and therefore, it stands to reason that $7,650 is a reasonable guideline for car ownership. Mr Wu, the person behind the site, told Chinese daily Shin Min that a family should retain 50 per cent of their income as miscellaneous expenses, education fees etc. The other 30 per cent would be taken up by a housing loan. Then, car expenses should not total to more than 20 per cent, he said. BAR TOO HIGH? But is the bar of $7,650 too high? The director of a parallel importer company apparently thinks so. He told Shin Min that $7,650 should be the minimum combined income to buy a Continental car like Mercedes-Benz or BMW. But with regards to cheaper cars, monthly expenses should not total more than $1,000. "If the person has a minimum income of $2,000, he can consider buying a car," said the director. And if the cheaper alternative is still too expensive, then the person should consider a second-hand car, added the director.