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10-01-2015, 06:20 AM
An honorable member of the Coffee Shop Has Just Posted the Following:
It looks like HDB has this corporate “habit” of obscuring information when it comes to disseminating information to the public.
The following piece of news, forwarded to TRE by a reader, showed that as far back as 30 years ago, HDB already had this habit of “obscuring” information from its maps.
In 1984, a resident, Mr Fong, wrote to the Straits Times complaining that HDB did not inform applicants that a funeral parlour was planned opposite their flat during their flat selection exercise.
“It must be obvious and known to the HDB planners that the majority of the local population, namely, the Chinese, Malays and Indians, dread living near funeral parlours and cemeteries on religious, cultural, social and traditional grounds,” he wrote.
Further, he questioned HDB why they were not told about this during the June 1984 Jurong Zone selection exercise.
He added, “It is disappointing to note that proposed buildings such as dustbin compounds were drawn into the maps that were mailed to eligible applicants but not extremely relevant and deadly important institutions such as a funeral parlour. Isn’t this a breach of faith?”
Full letter here...http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/01/08...on-since-1984/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/01/08/hdb-has-a-habit-of-obscuring-information-since-1984/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?197624-HDB-has-a-‘habit’-of-obscuring-information-since-1984&goto=newpost).
It looks like HDB has this corporate “habit” of obscuring information when it comes to disseminating information to the public.
The following piece of news, forwarded to TRE by a reader, showed that as far back as 30 years ago, HDB already had this habit of “obscuring” information from its maps.
In 1984, a resident, Mr Fong, wrote to the Straits Times complaining that HDB did not inform applicants that a funeral parlour was planned opposite their flat during their flat selection exercise.
“It must be obvious and known to the HDB planners that the majority of the local population, namely, the Chinese, Malays and Indians, dread living near funeral parlours and cemeteries on religious, cultural, social and traditional grounds,” he wrote.
Further, he questioned HDB why they were not told about this during the June 1984 Jurong Zone selection exercise.
He added, “It is disappointing to note that proposed buildings such as dustbin compounds were drawn into the maps that were mailed to eligible applicants but not extremely relevant and deadly important institutions such as a funeral parlour. Isn’t this a breach of faith?”
Full letter here...http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/01/08...on-since-1984/ (http://www.tremeritus.com/2015/01/08/hdb-has-a-habit-of-obscuring-information-since-1984/)
Click here to view the whole thread at www.sammyboy.com (http://www.singsupplies.com/showthread.php?197624-HDB-has-a-‘habit’-of-obscuring-information-since-1984&goto=newpost).