Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Malaysia, Singapore agree to suspend permanent restricted area over Pasir Gudang, ILS for Seletar Airport
Read more at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/malaysia-singapore-permanent-restricted-area-seletar-airport-11098662

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Ricky Lim
We note that the first Foreign Ministers meeting has kicked off with a cordial start - and sincere effort to de-escalate as well as to resolve the various disputing issues through mutual respect and equality.

Cautiously, it look like a good start.
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K Tan Don
You prefer other result from today meeting?
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Ricky Lim
K Tan Don - It is only a start.

What come after that we don't know.
Taking the benchmark of Pedra Branca - it took 29 years to resolve.

While we are cautiously glad that it has a good start - we will still have to see.
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Pengchuen Leong
Singapore again show good faith . But Malaysia remaining ship should also leave Singapore water .
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Pher Kim Huat
Fortunately unlike Seletar Airport, our International Airport is located at Changi where commercial aircrafts can avoid plying over Pasir Gudang otherewise we may have to drop our international air traffic control standard from ILS to primitive "Visual Assessment" which air traffic controllers may have to go back to those using binnoculars to moonitor aircraft's movement ?
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Kok Chee Seong
Those aircraft flying into Chnagi either passing thru above Malaysia Penggeraang Area or Indonesia Batam Island. Both of the airspace while belong to each countries, the FIR is controlled by Singapore. Once this 2 countries build up their capability that no guarantee it will controlled by Singapore anymore.
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Ricky Lim
Kok Chee Seong - I think you don't understand FIR.

The aircraft that take off from our airports will have to be controlled by us - because others do not have visibility into our airports landing and takeoff - a safety requirement by ICAO.


Imagine there are planes taking off and landing in our airport --- and you direct your plane to land in our airport with no visibility into our airport - and cause a collision with our planes is it?

Does it make sense?


If not you want Bangkok FIR to control their aircraft landing into KL - where they have no visibility into the KL airport - with flights going in and out - and cause collision in your KL airport?
It sounds stupid isn't it?
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Alan Lye
Apa ini? All the commotions for nothing!
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Leon Prohanto Schooling
politicians at work.
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Jm Chow
Very true...
Mere words...diplomatic words... good in front of TV cameras...for show only...saying insincere words with a broad smile...such as Malaysia and Singapore want "to preserve the vital relationship between both countries and to improving bilateral ties"...but never doing what they said.

These words will not result in any improvement in relationship.
We are very SURE...come tomorrow, Dr M will continue...to raise issues...to make things difficult for us.
Is this the way to 'improve' relationship ?

Singapore must not be fooled by empty words.

Singapore has to face two kinds of leaders in Malaysia:
One, the Good ones ...like the Crown Prince of Johor.
The other, the BAD ones...like Dr M, the PM of Malaysia.

We must be realistic....we cannot expect Malaysia to have good leaders all the time.
When there are bad ones, ...we must deal with them ...the 'right way'.
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用李
An airport without ILS is an low safety standard airport.
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Justice Lee
Great! 大事化小, 小事化无 :)
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Breeke Lo
MY ships leaving? Seletar Airport living?
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Breeke Lo
25 Dec last min throw in some nonsense today remove n call it a concession to suspend our ILS 😂😂😂 DrM u v bagus lah 👍👍
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Ricky Lim
By establishing Permanent Restricted Area over Pasir Gudang - it hurt Malaysia as well as it hurt Singapore - where civilian aircrafts coming from Malaysia to Singapore and vice versa - will be affected ---- as the incoming and outgoing aircrafts need to skirt the restricted area and spill over to the Tanjung Langsat Port ---- that may compromise the safety of the civilian aircrafts.

By opening up the Pasir Gudang airspace - the incoming aircraft from Malaysia can take this path and the outcoming aircraft can fly over the Tanjung Langsat Port ---- without the risk of causing collision.

It is a joke to close the Pasir Gudang airspace with the permanent restricted area - an unwise move.
It meant to block the flight from Seletar Airport - but it also impact the Malaysia bound flight from Changi Airport - that will impact Malaysia aircraft flight path.
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Breeke Lo
Ricky Lim it is an unwise move IF it was for real. Now we know it was just a tactical move.
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K Tan Don
Breeke Lo : Hmm tactical move..
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Ricky Lim
Breeke Lo - It was suicidal move for both Malaysia and Singapore - if commercial aircraft complain to ICAO for compromising air safety - it will hurt Malaysia more for resorting to such move that endanger commercial flight.

Then we can do something by moving the inbound and outbound flight path into our FIR international airspace to break the deadlock - out of Malaysian airspace.

But this will mean slightly higher fuel cost for all commercial flights. And it means passengers flying the air route to KL, Penang, Langkawi to Singapore and vice versa will be more expensive.

So in the end - Lose-Lose

Malaysia (lose most) - all commercial aircraft stop plying in Malaysian airspace coming to Singapore, Commercial Aircraft got to pay more on fuel price and we got more congested airspace in our FIR (but I think the capacity in our airspace still have many buffers - as our airspace is 3 times the size of Malaysian airspace).
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K Tan Don
Ricky Lim : How do you come up with the maths : our airspace is 3 times the size of Malaysian airspace ?
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Breeke Lo
K Tan Don negotiation tactics .. imagine without the 25 Dec NOTAM, what do you think MY will give in today to match our ILS suspension?
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Ricky Lim
K Tan Don - I am not refering to Singapore surface area.
I am refering to Singapore FIR airpace management that project out to South China Sea which is about 3 times the size of the airspace of KL FIR.

This show that you do not know the airspace management.

If aircraft go by Singapore FIR, then KL FIR will not manage Malaysia bound aircraft - Singapore FIR will manage all Malaysia bound aircraft all the way using our ILS system - and just before it reach KL airport or Penang airport or Langkawi airport - we will tranfer to Bangkok FIR and then handover to KL FIR to land.

Is that what you want?


But this is a viable option - if the deadlock is prolong. And air safety cannot be compromised.

The only downsides are :-
(1) Slightly higher fuel cost to commercial aircraft
(2) It is translated to slightly higher passenger fare
(3) Our Singapore FIR is slightly more congested - and it will have to involve Bangkok FIR to handover to KL FIR - instead of 2 FIR - where Singapore FIR handover to KL FIR.
(4) KL FIR lose all Malaysia bound commercial flight.
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K Tan Don
Breeke Lo : Tactic or no tactic, we can celebrate CNY peacefully for now...good also mah..
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Breeke Lo
K Tan Don u seem to forget your ships are blocking my front door .. hard for CNY visiting leh
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K Tan Don
Breeke Lo :Aiyoh, why you guys never settle that in the meeting ?
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Breeke Lo
K Tan Don i wan to know why too
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Matthew Loh
CNA, typo:
"I'm glad to be able to report that we have arrived at some agreements and we have also just as ***impotantly*** reaffirmed our commitment..."
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Breeke Lo
should be "impotently"?
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陈金宝
Breeke Lo Yes, the old snake is impotent. Now he realised whacking SG has failed to rally msians to the streets to protect agst SG. Instead they protested against ICERD which was their internal matter. Cracks began to appear in Pakatan Harapan coalition with some people "washing their dirty laundry in public". Now some uneasiness over the Agong's abdication. The old snake failed to divert pressure away from such domestic issues by whacking SG
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Breeke Lo
陈金宝 When someone whack you and you smile, you are a failure. It doesn't matter abit how troubled his family is or whether his gf is not giving him any.
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Henry Chua
要谨慎提防老蛇的骗局。我国是小国,不能掉入老蛇的陷阱,而对我们日后的发展不利。
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Georgie Lee
Trust not those Bodohs from the North. They dont have the brain and talent to match Singapore in everyway. The next round will be the same. At the end of the day and as usual they will say they to want to maintain good relationships among neighbours. They are the serpents behind those phoney smiles. They cannot cheat Singapore. They must know that.
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Breeke Lo
Impt is not whether people want to cheat us or not, it's whether we can be cheated or not. Stop blaming others. No one owes us a living.
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Georgie Lee
Breeke Lo Can easily tell those from the North have no brain to know now to cheat us. We too cannot be cheat by them.
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K Tan Don
Georgie Lee : I agree with you..yr side is cheating us, especially on the water agreement.
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Breeke Lo
K Tan Don same for your side too, no one owes u a living. We refuse to pay above agreed price, your side shouldn't act like crybaby.
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K Tan Don
Breeke Lo : If you got cheated, you don't cry ah..
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Breeke Lo
K Tan Don u know i always side reason, really can't see how we cheated u
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K Tan Don
Breeke Lo : The same reasoning, after 1986, never ask, now cannot ask for revision..have a good day..
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Lu Pin
Breeke Lo The maritime n airspace disputes are double up tactics to stop seletar ils. As long as ils is stopped, the 2 tactics are successful. Brilliant. A bunch of political novices led by Dr M can checkmate a Cabinet of President's Scholars.
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Frank Kam
Lu Pin - Bullshit to the max !!!!
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Ricky Lim
Lu Pin - Just some dirty tactics you call checkmate.
If you look at the state of Economy, the huge debt, 
their per capita GDP, their kopi lui culture, racial division, social disharmony across the Causeway - compare to us now ---- then you will see who got checkmate.
Seriously you want to exchange your places and stay across the Causeway?
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K Tan Don
Ricky Lim : ok ok..thanks for looking down upon us..please renegotiate the water pricing..come on you are so economical strong and so rich..don't be stingy leh..
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Ricky Lim
K Tan Don - we don't look down at people as long as people don't bully us.

Our foreign policy is "Friends with All, Adversity with None. Forge mutual benefits with Win-Win outcome."

But We have been bullied since independence - and we will retaliate if we are bullied.

As for water, you can beg and cry - we will not budge and if you insist, we can settle in International Courts.
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Breeke Lo
Ricky Lim dirty no doubt, but guess what, they worked. 兵不厌诈。Aren't their ships still not respecting our sovereignty? The fate of ILS / Seletar Airport .. suspended..indefinitely. Isn't that as good as dead?

Now, what are the "firm actions" we took so far? War cries, countless warnings and threats, an open mob - NATO. When it became obvious no one across the causeway has lost any sleep, we switched to FIRM understanding, patience and almost altruistic for our mutual good. My foot.

Any special mentions? Yes, we
bagged a "special giveaway prize" for THWARTING their 2-week old Restricted Zone. Should hv a public holiday for this.

Checkmate is just right.
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Breeke Lo
Ricky Lim when someone whacked the daylights out of you and you smiled and take a wefie, you are a failure. Whether the guy's rich or poor, smart or otherwise, doesn't make u a lesser loser.
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Ricky Lim
Breeke Lo - Dealing with adversity is a long-shot thing.
If you are looking at short term result - you will be disappointed.

Reflect our past dealings across the Causeway for the last 5 decades - and see who got checkmate. (You reflect over water, hinterland, economy, racial and religious social compact, finance, governance, clean government, international standings, wealth, military etc ---- you see the result).

Not discussing any indepth things here - you will just have to live with it longer to see results.

Great haste less speed.

Many people will "wow" for immediate results like "launching war in middle east" - but look across the middle east --- destruction, massive death and sufferings.

Immediate gratification for impatient people is satisfying for a short while - what take over is long term suffering.

Wise people don't do it this way - and has long enduring patience.

Look up at many ancient wise books - there are alot of wisdom there.

Don't look at superficial glory or small "victory" - look deep.

It is better to lose a battle but win the war.
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Breeke Lo
Ricky Lim Totally agree. Not looking for immediate win either - because there is none, this is a perpetual storyline. While we fight the many battles, sovereignty must not be compromised, otherwise, we have already lost the war. Have you forgotten the warnings and cautions made by Khaw, CCS, Ng EH?
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Ricky Lim
Breeke Lo - Glad that you agree with me.
Just be patient and live with the "discomfort".
We have live it for the last 29 years and win the Preda Branca.

We have also win over the "throat squeezing - water cut" and the "food dependant".
We have also overcome the hinterland constraint - where the World is now our hinterland.

Plus many more.

To me, these few issues is "sub-sub water" --- more like irritation rather than "live threatening". 
More like playing with them in the kampong league (while we are actually operating in the World Cup league).

To be honest, we have recently secured many big tangible "winning thinghy" that will entrenched our success longer and deeper into the future. No need to elaborate here.

Our future is very bright.
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Breeke Lo
Ricky Lim i agree with you only on the cool-headed part, not the intruded-still-can-sleep-well part. Good night 😀
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Breeke Lo - ha ha ha ha.

The intruded ships are now our bedded "sleep partners" - surrounded and trap by us.
They feel more like "imprisoned" with no where to go - wake up, eat, drink, shit, urine and then sleep.
They are getting very bored.

They may get claustrophobia....


The best part is make your adversary to become your friends. This is the highest form of 心法。

Good night.
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