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Thousands of Singaporeans dressed in pink gathered at a park Saturday calling for greater recognition of LGBTQ rights, the first such rally since 2019 after coronavirus restrictions were eased.

While the city-state is prosperous and developed, social attitudes remain conservative and sex between men is still illegal, although the statute is not actively enforced.

Singapore's "Pink Dot" gay rights rally started in 2009 and has regularly attracted sizeable crowds despite a backlash from some quarters.

After holding online-only events during the pandemic, large numbers turned out Saturday as the rally returned to a downtown park -- the only place in the city-state where protests are allowed without a police permit.

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"I want to have my voice heard, I want to know that we matter and I want to have equality in Singapore," Susan Helen, a 39-year-old business manager taking part, told AFP.

"We are human beings, so we just want to be treated equal in the face of the law. I want to be able to marry my partner."

Others at the rally waved rainbow flags, danced and brandished placards with slogans such as "We're not nuclear, we are queer", and "Power to the queers".

Organisers did not release figures on the crowd size, but an AFP reporter estimated that thousands attended.

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Critics say that Singapore's slow progress on gay rights is a contrast to advances made in other parts of Asia such as Taiwan and India.

They point to authorities maintaining the British colonial-era law that prohibits sex between men. Several attempts to overturn the legislation have failed in recent years.

The latest challenge was dismissed by Singapore's top court in February, which ruled that the law would be maintained but on the basis that it "would not be proactively enforced".

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Open support for gay rights is growing, aided by changing social norms among the younger generation and a large influx of tourists and expatriates.

The percentage of people in Singapore who support the gay sex ban fell from 55 percent in 2018 to 44 percent this year, while citizens are becoming more supportive of same-sex relationships, a survey released this month by market research firm Ipsos found.

Officials have maintained that most in socially conservative Singapore would be against repealing the law, which carries a maximum of two years in jail for homosexual acts.

But Law Minister K. Shanmugam has acknowledged shifting attitudes, telling parliament earlier this year that the government is considering the best way forward.

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4 minutes ago, socrates469bc said:

pgd sex is indeed more important than high inflation.

 

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The only SouthEast Asia country to legally have LGBT marriage ceremony, the only English speaking Asia country welcome the pink dollar. Much better idea than 2 casinos isn't it?

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Just now, Huat Zai said:

 

The only SouthEast Asia country to legally have LGBT marriage ceremony, the only English speaking Asia country welcome the pink dollar. Much better idea than 2 casinos isn't it?

 

this is a better sustainable economic model.

 

wahahahahahahahaha

 

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7 minutes ago, socrates469bc said:

 

this is a better sustainable economic model.

 

wahahahahahahahaha

 

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After pinkie dropped the ball and Taiwan picked it up, we will never get it back, not even Tiongland has succeed.

 

invite actual sexpert to comment @chamfer

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5 minutes ago, Huat Zai said:

 

After pinkie dropped the ball and Taiwan picked it up, we will never get it back, not even Tiongland has succeed.

 

invite actual sexpert to comment @chamfer

 

ROC was always 2 gens ahead of pappyland as the taiwanese started way back in 1973 while pappyland started ard 1979 or so.

 

what is really irony was that tsmc and chartered were formed in 1987 and the divergence of fate came in 1991, when a pappyland seat warmer decided to focus on upgrading hdb flats instead of continuing GKS legacy of  innovation-led economic policies.

 

by the time a cambridge clown/wrangler came in, he decided to focus on casinomics as the next engine of growth and not closing up the increasing technological gap.

 

currently, all 3 major semicon foundries r able to do 5nm commercially while global foundries r still stuck at 14nm due to technical barriers.

 

even though smic claims to be able to do 7nm, but without asml's euv, limpeh think smic can only do up to 22nm commercially at best while at 14nm, the defect rate could be more than 5%, rendering it unprofitable.

 

so now, the gap between pappyland and ROC is technically speaking 4 gen but realistically speaking, the gap is ard 5-6 as pappyland do not have any research capability.

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2 minutes ago, socrates469bc said:

 

ROC was always 2 gens ahead of pappyland as the taiwanese started way back in 1973 while pappyland started ard 1979 or so.

 

what is really irony was that tsmc and chartered were formed in 1987 and the divergence of fate came in 1991, when a pappyland seat warmer decided to focus on upgrading hdb flats instead of continuing GKS legacy of  innovation-led economic policies.

 

by the time a cambridge clown/wrangler came in, he decided to focus on casinomics as the next engine of growth and not closing up the increasing technological gap.

 

currently, all 3 major semicon foundries r able to do 5nm commercially while global foundries r still stuck at 14nm due to technical barriers.

 

even though smic claims to be able to do 7nm, but without asml's euv, limpeh think smic can only do up to 22nm commercially at best while at 14nm, the defect rate could be more than 5%, rendering it unprofitable.

 

so now, the gap between pappyland and ROC is technically speaking 4 gen but realistically speaking, the gap is ard 5-6 as pappyland do not have any research capability.

That's why recovering the semicon industry is a pipe dream that some are still smoking. As a resource scarce country, we should be focusing our efforts on developing a national identity and developing local talent on R&B, Bio-Tech, IT, etc. All the money they poured into the previous efforts all left pocket right pocket, end up all the FTs get employed and the locals did all the grunt work. Sigh,

 

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19 hours ago, Huat Zai said:

That's why recovering the semicon industry is a pipe dream that some are still smoking. As a resource scarce country, we should be focusing our efforts on developing a national identity and developing local talent on R&B, Bio-Tech, IT, etc. All the money they poured into the previous efforts all left pocket right pocket, end up all the FTs get employed and the locals did all the grunt work. Sigh,

 

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cambridge clown/wrangler loves gig economy.

 

so pappy serfs diam diam, ok???????

 

wahahahahahahahaha

 

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20 hours ago, socrates469bc said:

 

ROC was always 2 gens ahead of pappyland as the taiwanese started way back in 1973 while pappyland started ard 1979 or so.

 

what is really irony was that tsmc and chartered were formed in 1987 and the divergence of fate came in 1991, when a pappyland seat warmer decided to focus on upgrading hdb flats instead of continuing GKS legacy of  innovation-led economic policies.

 

by the time a cambridge clown/wrangler came in, he decided to focus on casinomics as the next engine of growth and not closing up the increasing technological gap.

 

currently, all 3 major semicon foundries r able to do 5nm commercially while global foundries r still stuck at 14nm due to technical barriers.

 

even though smic claims to be able to do 7nm, but without asml's euv, limpeh think smic can only do up to 22nm commercially at best while at 14nm, the defect rate could be more than 5%, rendering it unprofitable.

 

so now, the gap between pappyland and ROC is technically speaking 4 gen but realistically speaking, the gap is ard 5-6 as pappyland do not have any research capability.

 

 

still got hope la. you all remember intel was ahead of amd by at least 10yr. look at amd now. they are ahead of intel. you just need the right ppl for the job. intel choose the correct person. Mr Murthy Renduchintala  (Chief Engineer) and amd is hire engineer ceo is Lisa Su

 

nvm he got sack already, guess they hire wrong person. but i think YES men or ARMY men as ceo is correct. we we plenty no worry. just dont hire engineer ceo

 

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2 minutes ago, The_King said:

 

 

still got hope la. you all remember intel was ahead of amd by at least 10yr. look at amd now. they are ahead of intel. you just need the right ppl for the job. intel choose the correct person. Mr Murthy Renduchintala  (Chief Engineer) and amd is hire engineer ceo is Lisa Su

 

nvm he got sack already, guess they hire wrong person. but i think YES men or ARMY men as ceo is correct. we we plenty no worry. just dont hire engineer ceo

 

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intel has research dna in its culture which no penny pinching indian can destroy.

 

what dna chartered semicon has?????

 

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2 minutes ago, socrates469bc said:

 

intel has research dna in its culture which no penny pinching indian can destroy.

 

what dna chartered semicon has?????

 

wahahahahahahaha

i can answer this. it have yes and army men.

 

 

 

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Sg should had put in more effort in the semicon manufacturing.

 

The whole process from wafer to final product machines are very profitable. 

 

The company which i used to work in for making back-end machines can start from a sme to a listed company. That's how much those machines are worth on the market and the demand for them was huge until company had to open office in china to cope with production.

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1 hour ago, chamfer said:

Sg should had put in more effort in the semicon manufacturing.

 

The whole process from wafer to final product machines are very profitable. 

 

The company which i used to work in for making back-end machines can start from a sme to a listed company. That's how much those machines are worth on the market and the demand for them was huge until company had to open office in china to cope with production.

 

zz working with ve last time?????

 

the back-end machines made in sea and china usually used for osat and basic wafer racks.

 

bolehsia is a world leader in these back-end machines.

 

margins for these machines r sibei high, ard 15% or so but not very high tech.

 

wahahahahahahahaha

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1 hour ago, socrates469bc said:

 

zz working with ve last time?????

 

the back-end machines made in sea and china usually used for osat and basic wafer racks.

 

bolehsia is a world leader in these back-end machines.

 

margins for these machines r sibei high, ard 15% or so but not very high tech.

 

wahahahahahahahaha

Not that company.

 

The company delisted from stock exchange already. 

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