Would This Sort Of Reprimand Be Given In Malaysia?

The Singapore Armed Forces (SAF) have reprimanded a son of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong,(pic) currently serving his National Service, for not following the proper procedure in channelling his complaint against a fellow serviceman.

Li Hongyi, 20, a second lieutenant, had sent an e-mail on June 28 to the defence minister and senior SAF officers, alleging that an officer in his unit had been absent without leave on two ocassions.

He also wrote in the e-mail that he had raised the matter with the officer's superior but there had been no action taken.

The Ministry of Defence said that Li had contravened the General Orders by broadcasting his letter of complaint to many other servicemen "almost all of whom were neither directly under his command, nor in an official capacity where they could deal with the matters contained in his letter of complaint."

"He has been formally charged and administered a reprimand after a summary trial," the ministry said in a statement.

***** When even the smalltime Member of Parliament from Jasin can be accorded the "close one eye" VIP treatment, what more of the sons, daughters, SILs and DILs of VVIPs? If the children of our leaders were to be subjected to the strict standards practised in Singapore, some of them would be spending much of their time answering show cause notices or attending court cases.
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