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Best Springboard in the world

We must remain open to foreigner, cannot be avoided if we want to continue to grow. I am sure there are those who are sincere to stay and integrate into Singapore and those who are just using Singapore as a springboard to go further. No way we can tell.

Best infrastructure..attracts top talent?

SINGAPORE: Singapore is seizing the opportunity to position itself as a Home for Talent to drive business and innovation.
Helping to spearhead this towards becoming a global talent hub is the new Human Capital Leadership Institute (HCLI).
The new institute's governing body is chaired by entrepreneur Sunny Verghese.
The economy is recovering but the war is not over. The battle now is for the best talent to grow the business pie, said Singapore's Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong .
Launching the new Human Capital Leadership Institute with its chairman Sunny Verghese, Mr Gan stressed this means ensuring that Singapore has the hardware and software to grow "talent centres of excellence".
Mr Gan said: "This will then encourage more innovation for businesses in Singapore and across Asia. We will also provide companies with a supportive and holistic environment to nurture these talents into future leaders.
“Top local talents will want to remain in Singapore and global talents will want to come here because we have the best educational infrastructures to help them develop their leadership competencies and further their careers.
“Global companies will also invest and set up operations in Singapore because of the availability of a deep talent pool. Together with our strategic geographical location, unique multi-cultural attributes and world-class infrastructure, we believe Singapore is well-positioned to become this Home for Talent in the heart of Asia.
“Employers will hire only the best candidates with the right skills and attributes. The workforce needs to upgrade its skills and knowledge in order to remain competitive and marketable.
“Therefore, a key thrust of Singapore's economic growth strategy going forward is to enhance workforce capabilities by focusing on skills, innovation and productivity. To achieve this, we need to help companies develop progressive talent management and leadership capabilities."
That's where the Human Capital Leadership Institute will play a pivotal role.
It will offer the best-in-class executive education. CHANNEL NEWS ASIA 10/5/2010

10 million community integration fund for FT

It will be good if my mother who is chinese educated can be given the chance to learn English for free. Why not include these Singaporean who has no chance to have an english education in their earlier life a chance now to benefit from the programme. At least they can make friends with the FT during the class...which may help them to integrate better.

Market flooding soon.

This piece of work is trying to cover some of the recent issues arising from the foreign talent problem in Singapore. The liberal immigration policy in Singapore is the broken tap which is the problem faced by the worker holding the tool. I added the rubber ducky to use as a relationship to express how Mr Tharman emphasized FT as being critical to Singapore and help raise our salary.
Mr Wong Kan Seng in the background ensuring that the water is of good quality but he is only looking at those in the glass and ignoring the rest around him.
Mr Lim holding the frog... you think leh. read here.
Hope you guys like this one. - Ben Soon

Make More Tiger Babies

SINGAPORE'S Prime Minister today urged citizens to make more babies this year and ignore superstitions about the Chinese zodiac, as the city state's birth rate continued to plunge.
Lee Hsien Loong said in a Lunar New Year message the fertility rate in the predominantly ethnic Chinese island had dipped to its lowest level ever at 1.23 babies per woman last year, from 1.28 in 2008.
This is well below the 2.1 babies needed for the population to replenish itself naturally.
"This is the lowest we have ever experienced. It means last year we were short of at least 10,000 babies just to replace ourselves," Mr Lee said.
The fertility rate among ethnic Chinese citizens was even lower than the national average at 1.09 babies per woman.
"Probably the recession last year made couples hold back having babies. But it also reflects fundamental social changes that are affecting all East Asian societies," he said.
Mr Lee said he was particularly worried about ethnic Chinese couples who chose to hold back having babies during Tiger years because of a superstition that children born during the year will have the animal's attributes.
In each of the last three Tiger years - 1974, 1986 and 1998 - the number of births dropped by seven percent, the prime minister noted.
"It is one thing to encourage ourselves with the traditional attributes of the zodiac animals," he said.
"But it is another to cling on to superstitions against children born in the Year of the Tiger, who are really no different from children born under other animal signs."
The government has so far introduced a number of measures, including financial incentives and government-paid maternity leave, to encourage married Singaporeans to have more children.
Singapore had a population of 4.99 million as of June 2009, including more than one million foreign workers and their families.

news.com.au 13th Feb 2010

Vietnamese Lady on Taxi

POLICE have arrested a 19-year-old Vietnamese woman who climbed on top of a taxi and jumped on its roof, while screaming and kicking its advertisement board, for almost an hour yesterday.

Residents of an HDB block overlooking Hougang Avenue 9 said they awoke to the bizarre scene outside their windows, which took place at about 8am.

'I woke up to what I thought was noise from some construction, but I looked down to see this young woman stomping on the top of a taxi. She seemed hysterical,' said an eyewitness who lives on the 10th floor of the block, who gave his name only as Mr Letchumanan.

Police said they received a call at 8.45am yesterday, and arrived to find the woman still on top of the CityCab taxi. She was arrested for disorderly behaviour. The cabby did not want to be interviewed, but said in his statement to the police that the woman had flagged down his taxi and then climbed on top of it when he stopped his vehicle.

Eyewitnesses said the woman was screaming in Mandarin but they could not make out what she was saying. She was seen jumping on the cab's roof and kicking its advertisement signboard until it broke.

Mrs Joanna Ho, 33, who watched the incident from her flat on the block's 15th floor, said the woman climbed down at one point and quarrelled with the taxi driver. She then lay down in the middle of the road, causing a traffic build-up, and chased after a car before climbing on top of the taxi again

-Strait Times