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You don't own your car, you don't own your house, you don't even own your vote or 60% votes won't be controlling 90% seats.
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5 minutes ago, The_King said:
i will not, i will give them a choice, i tell them what mrna does and what happen if you take or do not take
under the 9th Amendment, protects, the right to vote, the right to travel, the right to privacy, and one's own body
in short my body my choice
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11 hours ago, coffeenut said:
Dunno who sells all these coffee machines in SG - must search for Sinkie distributor of those machines on Google maybe
To see more funky designs - maybe look at siaolang YT coffee reviewers .. or join this Espresso Aficionados Discord https://discord.gg/mJufQknV There a lot more siaolang :s
You want more funky design - can beo this - USD 20K+ lever machine :s Lever action look like breech loading a cannon
7 hours ago, The_King said:ok i get aero and save money
*moi who drinks instant kopi*
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1 hour ago, 2Veg_1Meat said:
Why are you guys complaining?
According to LHL, importing more foreigners create more good jobs for Singaporeans.
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6 minutes ago, The_King said:
this posion mrna really mess up the body. it anyhow send signal to create this and that which is not what the body do, this is killing the body
Politicians had a choice to make, lose 60% of your population immediately like during the Spanish flu, or an unknown number suffer and possibility die from long term effects, long enough for some of them to have child and die, die lah.
In those shoes, I would have made the same choice.
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12 minutes ago, classyNfabulous said:
so funny, require public’s assistance to identify the lady. but her face is mosaic in the bakery’s ig?
The original photo in the ig is 无码, is mothership no balls to post, become 有码
12 minutes ago, coffeenut said:wtf it is shop's job to identify the person who threw hot cocoa?
Just lodge report with police - post on social media and then they will find
No injury, no property damage, no following on social media, mata won't give a fly fuck. Now got social following, you see how fast they act.
14 minutes ago, The_King said:welcome to sg if you are FT
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1 minute ago, The_King said:
very healthy but heart problem = MRNA
this is what happen when those on top try to play god, there a reason why the immune system created all this. every cell have their own job. finding the right anti bodies is the job of dendritic cell and creating the anti bodies is the job of B cells. NOT MRNA
tsk, was just going to post "in before @The_King say vaccine"
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According to the advance estimates released by the Singapore Ministry of Manpower (MOM) on Tuesday, the labor market in Singapore experienced moderate expansion in the first quarter of 2024.
The growth pace has slowed compared to previous quarters, a trend that MOM attributes to the cooling labor demand observed throughout 2023 due to ongoing global economic uncertainties.
Excluding Migrant Domestic Workers, the total employment figures recorded an increase, primarily driven by an uptick in resident employment. This contributed to maintaining low unemployment rates and a decrease in retrenchments for the second consecutive quarter.
MOM reports that total employment increased by 4,900 in Q1 2024, a slowdown from the 7,500 increase in the previous quarter. This growth was entirely supported by a significant rise in resident employment, which not only surpassed last year’s figures but also reached levels seen in non-recessionary periods.
Conversely, non-resident employment saw its first contraction since the third quarter of 2021, reflecting diminished labor demand.
According to MOM, the growth in resident employment was notably strong in sectors such as Financial Services, Health & Social Services, and Public Administration & Education. These sectors managed to compensate for the seasonal employment declines in Retail Trade, Food & Beverage Services, and Accommodation sectors after the festive period.
The construction sector, primarily employing Work Permit holders, experienced a reduction following changes in the sector’s Dependency Ratio Ceiling effective from 1 January 2024.
MOM states that retrenchments decreased to 3,000 in the first quarter of 2024, down from 3,460 in the previous quarter. The predominant cause of retrenchments was business reorganization and restructuring, indicating ongoing industry transformation.
The unemployment rates in March 2024 experienced a slight uptick to 2.1% overall, with residents at 3.0% and citizens at 3.1%. MOM highlights that these rates are still within the pre-pandemic range, underscoring the underlying resilience of the labor market.
However, MOM’s figures also show that the number of unemployed residents increased by 5,200 (non-seasonally adjusted) and 4,700 (seasonally adjusted), from Q4 2023 to Q1 2024, a rise that exceeds the increase in resident employment growth.
The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) projects an economic upturn in 2024, which MOM cites as a likely catalyst for strengthened labor demand. While wage increases may decelerate, MOM’s surveys indicate an optimistic hiring outlook, with 50.7% of firms expressing intentions to recruit more staff in the next three months.
To facilitate economic growth and workforce adaptation, MOM emphasizes the critical role of reskilling and job redesign. Initiatives like the Career Conversion Programmes and the Jobs Transformation Maps are essential in preparing Singaporeans for future job demands, according to MOM.
MOM urges all stakeholders to fully utilize the available support programmes to remain competitive and resilient amidst economic fluctuations.
It should also be noted that the reference period for the survey data refers to the week preceding the survey interview.
‘Employed Persons’ are defined as individuals aged fifteen years and over who, during the reference period, worked for one hour or more, either for pay or profit.
While the number of employed has not decreased drastically, this definition by MOM raises concerns about the number of income-related under-employed individuals, as working merely one hour a week qualifies a person as ’employed’ rather than ‘unemployed.'”
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by Srikandi Karma
Singapore is a nation in exile from itself, alien to its own self. An academic friend used to ask her students whether they were Southeast Asians. In a room of five hundred, ten or fifteen would raise their hands, usually internationals from other Southeast Asian countries. Singaporeans have been drilled into believing that they are lucky not to be their primitive neighbors, who live in poor and dirty fishing villages.
Mass media recently propagated articles about Singapore being the happiest country in Asia. However, a 2012 survey revealed only 36% of Singaporeans feel any emotions on a daily basis, the lowest figure worldwide. No happiness, no sadness, no anger: just an empty machine.
The suicide rate in 2022 was 8.44 per 100,000 people, over triple the Indonesian figure. In the same year, Singapore was named the most overworked nation in Asia Pacific. According to the HealthHub website, “Singaporeans are amongst the most sleep-deprived worldwide.”
Singaporeans are some of the most unfortunate people in Asia today. The anthology Psychology in Singapore begins by stating that Singaporeans are afraid of creativity.
If anything distinguishes Singapore from its neighbors, it seems to be fear: afraid of speaking out, afraid of self-expression, afraid of honest conflict, afraid of who they are. Increasingly, the population speaks less Malay and dialect in favor of English. Chinese culture is reduced to tea drinking ceremonies and convenient rewritings of Confucian philosophy.
Sun Yat Sen proclaimed Lao Tzu the father of anarchist philosophy, the doctrine that people don’t need governments and hierarchies to cooperate in building an orderly society.
Confucius wrote that wealth is not worth pursuing and possessing wealth in an unjust society is shameful. The Chinese culture in Singapore is a castrated mess, sterilized from everything that opposes the interest of capital and government. People wear the same mass-produced Japanese shirts and obsess over Korean pop while happily consuming Western culture on the internet.
There is more awareness of the latest farce in American politics than the violent dislocation of Malays from their kampungs in Batam to build a solar panel factory. Light skin color is glorified and people dye their hair blonde to become white. Streets are still named after colonial British leaders.
When I asked students what being Singaporean is, the most common response was, “I’m not Singaporean.” Singaporeans are wearing a mask and running away from themselves.
Labor Day will see enormous protests and celebrations throughout the streets of Nusantara, from Java to the Philippines, with one exception: Singapore.
While Indonesian soldiers gladly shoot live ammunition into protests and activists in the Philippines are tortured by the military government, progressive political movements flourish under impossible circumstances. The common excuse that Singaporeans don’t resist because they can’t is nonsensical.
There is no meaningful resistance in Singapore, no grassroots political threat to the incumbent, and no attempt to create a better world because there is no life without self-knowledge. Gramsci wrote that “the starting-point of critical elaboration is the consciousness of what one really is, and is ‘knowing thyself’ as a product of the historical process to date, which has deposited in you an infinity of traces, without leaving an inventory.”
Self-knowledge comes from tapping into the histories and cultures of Nusantara, her colonization and revolutions, that is, the history of your family and surroundings, why you feel, think, and live in the way that you do.
Having lost the plot, Singaporeans don’t know where to go next. Too much ink has been spilled over government intervention in private lives, state surveillance, widespread repression, and so on, which blames the problem on an external party outside the Singaporean working class and her internal developments. This tradition comes from the Western academic focus on social structures as rigid walls detached from agency and relationships.
In fact, when you repeat how omniscient and powerful the government is, the government is in your head, speaking through you, moving your tongue through the invisible strings called fear to spread the disease.
Gandhi wrote that “[the British] are not in India because of their strength, but because we keep them” and “to blame them for this is to perpetuate their power.”
Likewise, as Pramoedya wrote, “lacking courage is why foreign entities can enslave us.” A free person cannot be enslaved. Conversely: without courage, you are no different from livestock.
Brief transgression on Pramoedya: he is the greatest writer of the Indonesian revolution, read widely through Nusantara by Vietnamese trade unions and Indonesian hackers alike. Yet he is nearly unknown amongst Singaporeans, even the progressives, who know almost nothing about the region and prefer copying Western theories.
The key to a liberated Singapore is a total revolution, which must first take place in the spirit and psychology of the people, starting from yourself. Not tomorrow, not next decade, but right now.
No authority figure is going to descend from heaven and fix your life, tell you who you are, and what must be done. Initially, this piece was on the political economy of Singapore and what interventions the writer thinks would be effective. That would have been the wrong ladder to sketch.
As long as Singaporeans fear the creative turbulence within yourselves, as long as you lack initiative and wait for authorities to command you, as long as you don’t act like a citizen of the free humane world you wish to live in, you will be nothing more than joyless overworked slaves living off drugs and breeding even more cattle. Multatuli wrote that the duty of a human being is to become a human being.
The basic foundation of effective revolutionary activity – not terrorist martyrdom and not necessarily violence, which is a dangerous last resort – is how you exist in relation to the people around you.
Suppose you are a student. You don’t live in solidarity with other students and the workers on campus, helping out and learning from each other.
Every weekend, you write social media posts to raise funds and every year, you hold picnics to protest government policies. Very quickly, you’ll find yourself burnt out, cynical, and probably depressed, though you might run away from your emotions by overworking yourself.
Not only is that ineffective politics that hasn’t and won’t lead to the change we need – a complete rehaul of our economy, politics, and relationships in service of dignified good living instead of the endless pursuit of capital – it is a miserable way to live.
Or suppose you’re a worker with the same ideology of activism. Your ideology, after all, is how you live your life. If you say you believe in strikes and unions but spend your time building NGOs, that is either hypocrisy or self-deceit. You don’t share food with your neighbours, you don’t organize your workplace to buy medicine for the sick, and your ghost friends whenever convenient.
Forget changing the world, start from yourself. Learn how to treat people as equals with respect. Everyone is your teacher. The writer treats her trade union and collective friends across Nusantara like her own family, and vice versa. When the right person lives in the right circumstances, the right practices will organically follow. You don’t choose where you’re born and during what historical moment, but how you live in relation to these conditions is up to you.
The secret of modernity is that only the individual can free her own self and digest her own history. Revolution is in you and I – otherwise, it is just another opium of the people.
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Two children in Singapore suffered at the hands of their biological father for almost two years, being confined in small spaces, eating their faeces out of starvation, and enduring physical abuse.
The man's abuse of his children came to a head when he beat his five-year-old daughter to death in the toilet where she and her younger brother had been confined naked for close to 10 months.
The man, now 44, cannot be named due to a gag order protecting the identity of his son, who survived the abuse, CNA and The Straits Times reported.
The boy was severely malnourished and unable to stand by himself when he was admitted to the hospital. He did not speak and was diagnosed with global developmental delay due to social deprivation.
He had to undergo physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech therapy and spent four months in hospital before he was well enough to be placed in foster care.
The presiding judge lifted the gag order on the victim's first name, Ayeesha, for society to remember her.
He sentenced the man on Apr. 30, 2024 to 34.5 years in jail — an "unprecedented" duration — to reflect the "abhorrence and disgust of the community" at the "inhumane, disgusting abuse" that the man subjected his children to.
The judge said the man had essentially used his children as “punching bags for whatever frustration or anger” he felt.
Children starved and ate their own faeces
The man, who had trained in silat, taekwondo and aikido, started abusing his children in December 2015, when Ayeesha and her brother were only three and two years old respectively.
The abuse went on until Ayeesha's death in August 2017.
Ayeesha and her brother — the man's children from his first marriage — had previously been in foster care in June 2014 but returned to live with the man and his second wife in early 2015.
The man worked as an auxiliary police officer or security officer for different companies from 2003 to 2016. He then worked in a fast food restaurant from 2016 to April 2017 before he became unemployed.
The man ran into financial difficulties and as a result, bought less food and diapers, and reduced the children's meals to twice a day.
Ayeesha and her brother lost weight and began eating their faeces out of starvation.
"Naughty corner"
They also played with their faeces, incurring their father's wrath on more than one occasion.
In an incident in December 2015, the man repeatedly punched and smacked Ayeesha and her brother after noticing rice, flour, curry powder, utensils and faeces strewn across the kitchen.
Ayeesha and her brother were also found eating the contents of a mattress with their diapers torn in an incident in February 2016. The man slapped them forcefully, causing their heads to hit each other.
In that same month, the man and his wife confined Ayeesha and her brother in a "naughty corner" as the children often woke up earlier than the couple and made a mess in the house.
The couple barricaded them in a space between a bookshelf and a wardrobe in a corner of their bedroom measuring about 90cm by 90cm.
Ayeesha and her brother were kept in the "naughty corner" from February to October 2016, even when they had not misbehaved. They were only let out to eat and bathe.
During that time, the man did not stop abusing Ayeesha and her brother, as captured by a closed-circuit television (CCTV) camera that the couple installed in the "naughty corner".
The man was seen in CCTV footage in an incident on Mar. 27, 2016, delivering 86 blows to Ayeesha, repeatedly slapping, punching, caning and kicking her for 16 minutes after she smeared her faeces on the wall.
The impact of the man's blows caused Ayeesha to become motionless for more than a minute at one point.
The couple moved the "naughty corner" to the toilet in the kitchen in October 2016 and reinstalled the CCTV camera there. Ayeesha and her brother were kept naked in the toilet and were only let out to eat or when the man and his wife used the toilet.
The toilet was often stained with their faeces.
Man lied to hide children from social services
The family's situation had been monitored by Thye Hua Kwan - Tanjong Pagar Family Service Centre (FSC). The FSC worked with the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF).
The man brought Ayeesha and her brother to a counselling session at the centre in May 2015. That was the last time that case officers would see her alive.
He would lie about Ayeesha and her brother's whereabouts in subsequent visits to the FSC, before disappearing and becoming uncontactable from October 2015 to September 2016.
Case officers called him, sent messages and emails, and visited the family's flat, but were unable to reach the man.
He went to the FSC on Sep. 1, 2016 and continued lying about Ayeesha and her brother's whereabouts.
In October 2016, the man called the case officer and requested for Ayeesha and her brother to be placed in foster care as he feared he might harm them out of frustration. By then, the man's abuse had gone on for close to a year.
The case officer notified MSF, told the man to bring his children down to the FSC the next day, and advised him to ask his neighbours or parents to care for the children that night.
The next day, the man went to the FSC alone and said he wanted to put Ayeesha and her brother up for adoption, even though the case officer suggested arranging foster care.
The man was given the contact details of Apkim Centre of Social Services, which provides adoption services.
He visited the organisation with his wife sometime later, without their children, and did not proceed further with the adoption.
He then told a visiting FSC case officer on Apr. 27 that preparations were being made for Ayeesha and her brother to be put up for adoption.
The case officer made a house visit on Apr. 27 after the couple visited the FSC to request financial support on Feb. 14.
The man's wife lied about the adoption once more on Jun. 21, and requested for the FSC to close their case.
Ayeesha was hit repeatedly before she was found dead
Ayeesha passed away less than two months later at her father's hands.
He started assaulting her on Aug. 10, 2017 after his wife complained to him that Ayeesha did not listen to her.
She had told Ayeesha and her brother, who were sleeping in the toilet, around 9pm that day to move their legs as they had not been active the entire day while confined inside.
The man went to the toilet, pulled Ayeesha up from the ground and smacked her face 15 to 20 times. Ayeesha's head was tilted back in an awkward position when he placed her on the ground.
He returned to the toilet to assault the children after his wife complained to him at around 3am on Aug. 11 that Ayeesha and her brother were sleeping in a weird posture.
Ayeesha and her brother were left alone in the toilet for the rest of Aug. 11, until the man's wife needed the toilet in the evening and saw a cold and unresponsive Ayeesha facing up with her eyes closed.
She called the man who performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) before realising that Ayeesha was dead.
Came up with a plan protecting wife, lied to authorities
The man then told his wife he would "clean up the evidence". He threw away various items including the CCTV camera, a mobile phone, a pair of scissors, a cane, a rubber hose, bath towels and a child safety gate, disposing of them in different rubbish bins in the wee hours on Aug. 12.
These items were never retrieved.
He came up with a plan to protect his wife, assaulting her and telling her to lodge a police report against him for doing so and raping her.
He also told her to say that she had been at home while he was out with Ayeesha and her brother.
The man brought Ayeesha's body and his son to Singapore General Hospital in a pram, lying to SGH staff that the girl became unresponsive that morning.
SGH doctors tried to resuscitate Ayeesha before pronouncing her dead at 10:49am.
The police were alerted as she was severely malnourished, weighing only 13.2kg, and her body bore multiple scars, marks and other external injuries. Her body also had a foul odour.
The man was arrested that afternoon but lied to the police in several statements that Ayeesha had hit her head and tumbled down a slide at a playground on the night of Aug. 11.
He only came clean on Aug. 18 after the police showed him footage of himself returning to his block alone in the early hours of Aug. 12.
Pleaded guilty to culpable homicide
The man was handed a total of 26 charges, including the capital charge of murder.
He went on trial for murder before admitting to the offences when the prosecution offered to reduce the charge to culpable homicide.
He pleaded guilty to culpable homicide, and five other charges including child abuse and disposing evidence.
Another 20 charges relating to child abuse and lying to police officers were considered in sentencing.
CNA reported that the man wept as details of the abuse were read out loud, and when videos of him hitting Ayeesha and her brother were played in court.
The prosecutor said the videos played in court were just a few minutes of Ayeesha and her brother's life for the past two years.
She told the court that the abuse the man inflicted on his children was the "worst of its type" and would "break the will of any human being".
She sought a total of 30 to 34 years' imprisonment and at least 12 strokes of the cane.
She also said the prosecution would review the case against Ayeesha's stepmother, who was named as a co-accused in the charges of confining the children to the toilet.
The defence referred to previous cases where the jail sentences were between 18 to 20 years and asked for a shorter sentence.
The defence argued that a sentence of 30 to 34 would be unprecedented, prompting the prosecutor to counter that the facts of the case were unprecedented.
The judge sentenced the man to 34.5 years' jail and 12 strokes of the cane, noting that he had subjected his children to physical, mental and emotional abuse.
He said the man had taken the concept of a "naughty corner" and "mutated it into a device of torture".
He said the primary consideration for sentencing is retribution.
"It is punishment to reflect the state's denouncing of such loathsome and sickening acts. Others must also be severely deterred from committing any abuse of this kind."
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SINGAPORE: The Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) updated the List of Gazetted Proposed Amendments to Master Plan 2019 on Monday (April 29) to show that a large new residential estate will be coming.
The URA’s site says that at Fernvale North (Sengkang N4), land parcels between Fernvale Street and the Tampines Expressway had been proposed for amendments that included the housing estate.
“The proposed amendments include revised parcellations and road network to facilitate the development of a new residential estate with park and other facilities.
The proposed development will support the demand for housing in the area and provide current and future residents with commercial and recreational amenities, as well as social and community facilities, greater accessibility to parks, and improved road connectivity,” it added.
The Business Times reported that Jalan Kayu, Fernvale Street, Anchorvale Street, Sengkang West Drive, and the Tampines Expressway would bind the proposed area.
It is close to two LRT stations—Kupang and Thanggam—and Sengkang Riverside Park.
The Housing & Development Board calls Sengkang a satellite residential town in the northeastern region of Singapore. In 2020, 249,370 people lived there.
However, last year, the Department of Statistics Singapore’s Population Trends report says that Sengkang, along with Bedok, Tampines, Jurong West, and Woodlands, was one of five planning areas with over 250,000 residents.
The HDB website says it manages 66,605 flats in Sengkang, which is bordered by Seletar and Punggol in the north, Pasir Ris and Paya Lebar in the east, Hougang and Serangoon to the south, Yishun and Ang Mo Kio.
Once upon a time, the town was a group of fishing villages. Its name comes from its origins, as Sengkang means “prosperous harbour” in Chinese.
Notably, Sengkang is the first satellite town to have its major public transport amenities constructed in coordination with the main public housing development, with the Sengkang Light Rail Transit (LRT) built at the same time HDB blocks were built in the 1990s.
BT quoted analysts saying there may be as many as 8,000 and 10,000 new residences in Fernvale North.
As is true elsewhere in Singapore, the price of real estate has gone up in Sengkang, and some in the area have even speculated that the town may be joining the million-dollar club soon.
A five-room HDB flat at 216A Compassvale Drive recently sold for S$968,000. “This event highlights Sengkang’s growing appeal and signals a broader trend within Singapore’s HDB market,” noted AsiaOne in March. /TISG
https://theindependent.sg/ura-reveals-large-site-in-sengkang-area-for-new-residential-estate/
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23 minutes ago, coffeenut said:
The accent is from where?
Sounds like Indonesian
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At least 24 people have died after a highway in China collapsed in the wee hours on May 1, 2024.
30 others in hospital
According to Chinese state media Xinhua News Agency and The Paper, 30 other individuals are in the hospital, receiving treatment, and none are in critical condition.
The Meizhou-Dabu Expressway in Meizhou, Guangdong collapsed at around 2:10am on May 1 resulting in 20 cars plunging down the slope where the highway was located.
Aerial footage of the incident was shared on social media, showing a smoking pile of wrecked vehicles lying at the bottom of a muddy pit.
According to Chinese media reports, a car had caught fire moments after the bridge collapsed.
Chinese authorities have dispatched around 500 people to the site to help with the rescue operation, CCTV reported.
Part of the highway was closed in both directions and drivers have been advised to use alternative routes.
String of disasters in Guangdong
Details on what caused the highway collapse have not been reported.
Guangdong has been hit with a series of deadly disasters in recent weeks.
This includes heavy rains that have caused deadly floods. One of the downpours on Apr. 21 lasted 12 hours and killed four individuals, according to The Guardian and BBC.
More recently, a tornado ripped through Guangzhou on Apr. 27, killing five people and injuring 33 others, according to The Guardian.
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A 14-year-old boy has died after an attacker armed with a sword went on the rampage in north-east London.
Police were called to reports of a car crashing into a house and people being stabbed in Hainault at about 07:00 BST.
The boy was taken to hospital where he later died.
Four other people, including two police officers, were injured before the suspect - who had been leaping over people's garden fences - was cornered and Tasered in a front garden.
The 36-year-old man was arrested and the Metropolitan Police said he was in hospital being treated for injuries sustained when the vehicle he was in crashed into the house.
Watch: Police pursue sword stabbing suspect as he climbs over garage roofsHis condition meant he had not yet been interviewed, police added.
Assistant Commissioner Louisa Rolfe said their investigations had not discovered any previous contact between the man and the police.
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Footage shared on social media showed a man with a long knife in Laing Close.
Ch Supt Stuart Bell acknowledged there would be "understandably, a desire for answers and an explanation as to what happened" and officers were working to "establish the full facts".
Footage taken by a bystander at the scene shows the alleged attackerUGC
Ch Supt Bell said the two Met officers had suffered wounds requiring surgery.
He described the officers' stab wounds as "significant" but not life-threatening.
The injuries of the two other members of the public were also "not believed to be life-threatening".
Ch Supt Stuart Bell confirms a 14-year-old boy was killed in Hainault stabbingCh Supt Bell said police did not believe there was any ongoing threat to the wider public and they were not seeking any other suspects.
He added he did not believe it was terror-related and was not a "targeted" attack.
Witness James Fernando said he saw the suspect ask one of his neighbours to take his phone and "tell whoever was on the phone his location".
The 39-year-old said the neighbour soon noticed the sword and started running.
As she fled, the woman shouted to another neighbour, a boy on his way to school, who was then struck by the attacker as he turned around, he said.
Doorbell footage appears to show the attacker's van crashing into a building with someone in its path
'Took him down'
Another eyewitness, Chris Bates, who lives in Thurlow Gardens, said he saw the suspect run through the area.
"He ran through the gardens and came out on to the street by the house next door to me," he told BBC Radio 5 Live.
"The police were there. He then ran down to two doors down, and tried to get on the sort of scaffold, and they Tasered him and took him down."
Emergency services were called shortly before 07:00 BSTPeter Kingdom
Manpreet Singh, who also witnessed the attack, told BBC Radio 5 Live he had walked out of an office when he "heard chaos" on the other side of the road.
"I saw a group of people, five or six of them, trying to fight off a guy - he had a sword in his hand," he said.
Forensic officers are gathering evidence and information at the sceneEPA
"There was about seven or eight police cars entering that road and, after another 10 minutes, I saw the guy running towards the station and entered the road opposite the station.
"He tried to get into one of the houses but couldn't get into it and that's when they Tasered him."
Hainault London Underground station was closed during the incident and local buses were diverted.
A police cordon is in place at the scenePA Media
Ch Supt Bell said the boy's family was being supported by specialist officers at this "unimaginably difficult time".
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan said: "I'm sure I speak for the entire city when I say our thoughts are with this young child and his family."
He said additional uniformed officers would be in the area over the coming days and asked residents in Hainault to pass on any footage recorded on phones or doorbell cameras to the police.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak described the incident as "shocking", adding: "Such violence has no place on our streets."
'Courageous response'
Wes Streeting, the MP for Ilford North, said the community would be "devastated by the heartbreaking news".
Thanking the emergency services for their "courageous response", he described the officers who had put themselves in harm's way to protect others as "the best of us".
Rick Prior, chairman of the Metropolitan Police Federation, said the attack was a "sad reminder" of the dangers officers faced to keep Londoners safe.
"It's often forgotten by people who attack our profession and the difficult and dynamic decisions which officers are confronted with on an hourly basis, that we work with heroes whose courage is incredible," he said.
The Metropolitan Police corrected the boy's age to 14 after previously stating that he was 13.
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Wow this is quite inspiring
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Most people think this means happy-go-lucky, but if you read actual passage this comes from (鏡花緣 chapter 6), it means do your absolute best and maximum effort, but don't get hung up by the outcome. End day, regardless of result, you can answer to yourself.