Rhetorical questions serve a purpose, my friend, and do not always
reflect limited knowledge. But thank you for the additional
information as case-in-point.
Haha, because that is the source you drew from with google.
Shallow search, with shallow thinking, so shallow result. Was
hoping you can do more research, but guess that is impossible.
Giving Mr Ong a state funeral is simple, and doing it will
appear to be gracious. Not doing it will make the government look
stupid, and serve no purpose in furthering it's end. if you can
come up with how not giving Mr Ong a state funeral will benefit PAP
exclusively, let me know
So this lead to the simple solution. They want to, but can't do
it. Answer A will be Mr Ong asked not to have a state funeral.
Unlikely, because PAP will just use that as a reason straight
away.
So the obvious answer, will be timing. Mr Ong died on Chinese
New Year. Holding a state funeral on Chinese New Year? Not a savvy
thing to do. But at the same time, they cannot announce no state
funeral because of chinese new year, because that will seem racist
or something. The thing probably dragged a bit, than ended with no
state funeral, the end.
So the official reply is "Singapore is still developing state
funeral requirements" something like that, which is sort of
true,considering that there was concern of having a funeral on
chinese new year.
If you think PAP didn't give Mr Ong a state funeral because of
some petty unhappiness, you misread the dept of the PAP. They are
not morons who will let what happened to a dead guy affect their
reputation, unless they can actually gain something from it. That's
probably something CSJ will do, but not PAP.