So the General Medical Council (GMC) of UK has lost their right to police themselves after they failed to detect how one of them (Harold Shipman) had systematically killed over 200 patients over 20 years (ST 22 Feb 2007).

The inquiry into the case found that the GMC was too focused on "looking after their own".

How's this related to Singapore?
The Singapore Medical Council had raised the Shorvon case to the GMC only to have the case dropped by the GMC who had a cursory review of the case and decided that Shorvon had nothing to answer for.

Shorvon was the UK researcher who was doing medical research in Singapore and had arbitrarily changed medications without regard for patients welfare. He escaped to the UK.

In view of this development, the SMC should appeal the decision.

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So Mahathir ends the little truce and comes out swinging.

He warns Abdullah not to let his son-in-law become PM because as a democratic country Malaysia should oppose any attempt to create a political dynasty. "In our country," he's reported to have said, "anyone can be the PM. Even the fisherman." But not the son-in-law of the PM. Or a homosexual.

And he accused Abdullah of being intolerant.

"Hello, Kettle? This is Pot. You're Black."

So who was it that persecuted his DPM with charges of homosexuality and kick him out of the political party just because the DPM didn't agree with him?

Sorry, that should have been: "Hello, Snow? This is Pot. You're Black!"

He was also reported to have said:
"We should quickly renegotiate the water deals so we can raise the price of raw water we sell to Singapore." That way Malaysia will have more incentive to sell water to Singapore and Johor won't get flooded. So ya, it's Singapore's fault that Johor flooded. Because we didn't buy more water. Instead we make our own water!

City of Garden and Water
So PM Lee has announced that Singapore should aim to be a City of Gardens and Water. Jakarta says, Pfffttt!!!! We're already halfway there. Just need to work on the gardens part.

PUB in Singapore says, "Then why we work so hard!!!!"

The nurseries at Thomson Road says, "So we are ahead of time lah?"

Newater, new sand.
So when Malaysia cut off our water supply, we came up with New Water.

Now that Indonesia has cut off our sand supply, what? New Sand? Are we going to be shitting bricks? It's also called night soil, right?

Behind the scenes after the soccer match...
So as the Malaysian Referee walks into the tunnel, he is met by Thaksin who shakes his hands and hands him a briefcase full of cash. Then as he walks further down, he meets Mahathir, who takes a cut. Then Mahathir walks out the tunnel to the waiting Thai players and shares the payoff with them.

What's news?

Singapore-Malaysia-Thailand
Mahathir said that "Singapore believes that the most important thing is what profits Singapore" in an interview with Thai TV. Oh well, I guess Malaysia doesn't believe that the most important thing is what profits Malaysia and Thailand doesn't believe that the most important thing is what profits Thailand. That must be why Thailand shot itself in the foot twice with the currency controls and the foreign ownership rules and managed to chop their stock market performance down for 2006.

And that explains why Malaysia nd Thailand is doing so much better than Singapore economically.

ASEAN cup
So if Singapore beats Thailand tonight, I guess the Thais will claim that we eavesdropped on their strategy through their handphones. And if we lose... well we lose. :-)

Crazy Horses iGallop
So Crazy Horse is closing down. They've extended the show by another 4 days. But they're closing. When they go, we can just put 7 iGallops on stage and feature naked women riding on them. On Wed, it would be amateur women's night. On Thursday, it will be men's night. And on Friday, the foreign brides agencies can put on their best girls to see if they can get a husband.

T.T. Durai first thought he could talk his way out of the SPH suit, but after two days, he realised that he was bing forced to tell more than he wanted, and nothing he say would make him look good. So realising his lost cause, he threw in the towel and dropped his suit against SPH.

Subsequently, this week the New NKF sued him and after the opening statement by the opposing counsel, he realised that as the case dragged on, he was going to be dragged through the mud. Wisely, he decided to save his name and concede.

In two or three months time, he will face criminal proceedings. It is also likely that after hearing the opening statement by the prosecution, he will decide to cut his losses and plead guilty.

Which means that he will never have to answer personally the questions that is on everyone's mind.

The only way to make him speak is if the remaining respondents in the current case, decide to call him as a hostile witness...

Then we will hear from the horse's mouth.