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Much ado about Parliamentary Member : the Organ of State comes clean

Nude photos of Steve Chia and maid found in his home. The Non-Constituency MP's wife makes a police report after finding the photos, and an investigation is under way.

NON-CONSTITUENCY Member of Parliament Steve Chia is being investigated by the police following a report made by his wife who found photographs at home of him and their maid, both naked.

In the police report, Mrs Doreen Chia, 31, alleged that her husband had outraged the maid's modesty.

Mrs Chia reported the matter to the Ang Mo Kio Police Division at the end of last month, just weeks after the couple's seventh wedding anniversary.

She is also pregnant with their first child.

When contacted yesterday, police spokesman Phillip Mah said that it was 'inappropriate for police to comment on investigations'.

However, The Straits Times understands that the maid, an Indonesian woman in her early 20s, has told police officers that she had not been forced into posing for the pictures.

'There is nothing for you to write about as it is a problem between husband and wife to be sorted out.' - Mr Chia, who is also secretary-general of the National Solidarity Party in an SMS reply to The Straits Times. Both Mr Chia and the maid were said to be smiling in the photographs, sources added.

The maid, who had been working for the Chias in their five-room Housing Board flat in Ang Mo Kio for about a year, is no longer employed by the couple.

She is believed to be staying at a haven for maids who run into problems with their employers.

When The Straits Times visited the couple's bridal salon in Tanjong Pagar yesterday, Mrs Chia, her eyes welling up with tears, confirmed she had made the police report against her husband.

When asked why she made the report, the long-haired petite woman, who wore a black loose-fitting dress because of her pregnancy, would only say: 'I prefer to reserve my comments.'

The couple met on a trip to climb Mount Ophir while they were both studying in the National University of Singapore in the early 1990s.

Mr Chia, 34, the secretary-general of opposition political party, the National Solidarity Party, did not answer calls to his mobile phone yesterday, but replied to an SMS from The Straits Times, saying: 'There is nothing for you to write about as it is a problem between husband and wife to be sorted out.'

Mr Chia was given a seat in Parliament as a Non-Constituency MP after the 2001 General Election for garnering the most votes among the opposition members who lost.

His party members declined to comment when asked how the matter would affect his position in the party or in Parliament

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DrGoat finds the whole issue so screamingly funny already that any attempts to comment will be superfluous icing on the, um. pastry thingie.

[pause.
Icing is good, it's sweeeet.]

So too does he find this (newspaper) reader's reply :
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Quit or stay? Answer is clear
IN THE report, 'Steve Chia bares all' (ST, Dec 22), the Non-Constituency Member of Parliament, when asked about his political career, was reported to have said 'it's for the public to decide, after hearing my side of the story, to see whether I am still suitable to represent them'.

Mr Chia should realise there is nothing that the public has to decide. He has to decide for himself if he is fit to enter the august parliamentary chamber and face the MPs and ministers, with his head held high, after being exposed for his nudist acts and taking 'sexy' pictures of his former maid. He doesn't have much time to make that decision. The next sitting of Parliament is on Jan 5.

There is no need to wait for the police to decide whether action would be taken against him. This is a matter of upholding the integrity of an important organ of state - Parliament.

S. RAMAMIRTHAM

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So today (no relation to any disreputable news broadsheet at all), DrGoat has also learnt :

1) That taking nuddy pictures of people, with their consent is actually outraging their modesty. Poor Jordan's modesty must be so outraged it's died of an apoplectic fit by now.

2) That the police will discharge their duties and
investigate claims of modesty-outrage without even a victim making the report - after all, it is a *criminal* offence!

3) That the press is so dedicated it'll go to any lengths to get down to the bottom of the truth.
And,

4) In the eyes of fully-fledged professional investigative reporters, taking sexy photos of someone, and taking separate nuddy photographs of yourself is really taking "photographs at home of him and their maid, both naked". Clever phrasing, that.

5) That the MP for the internet (cuecard : Laughter!) is clearly delusional, after all he believes that "'There is nothing for you to write about as it is a problem between husband and wife to be sorted out". Don't be absurd man, this is a clearly criminal matter, not a domestic one! Modesty is at angry and baying for blood!!

One question DrGoat would love answered is... so does she smoke cigars, or cigarettes?

DrGoat officially believes that Steve Chia is a houseplant cleverly disguised as a human being. And the maid in question (unlike the maid in manhatten) is really just a venus flytrap.

On a parting note, Festive Greetings, Merry Christmas, and blah blah blah to everyone. Break a leg. And stay the hell out of my A&E.
    # Re-minisce denies liability.12/23/2003 06:59:00 pm