SINGAPORE: Having people well versed in digital skills is key to Singapore’s Smart Nation drive, and the country hopes to attract Singaporeans based overseas to return home to work on such projects, said Minister-in-charge of the Smart Nation Initiative Vivian Balakrishnan.
This is on top of continued efforts to grow the local talent pool, he added.
Dr Balakrishnan noted that with the global shortage of tech talent, there are “hundreds” of Singaporeans who are working abroad in places such as the Silicon Valley in the United States, China and Southeast Asia.
“So the first thing is wherever possible, bring our people back home … The second source is (to) grow our own people,” he said during an interview conducted as part of the CNA Leadership Summit 2020. CNA
For many years, even today, we are still hearing this obsolete mantra of sending our small pool of talents overseas to compete with the rest of the world when they are badly needed back home. In those days when our currency was weak it made sense. Now the exchange rate is so low that earning foreign currency is losing money. No need to mention about earning rupiahs or rupees or even ringgits. And to make matters worse, at the same time we are recruiting all the fake talents and con men to replace our real talents overseas and paying them in S$. How ridiculous can national policies be to allow this transfusion of talents, good Singaporean talents being replaced by fake and funny foreign talents, a hollowing out of our Singaporean core!
Now Vivian is making a strange call, a little late, to bring back our talents from overseas. Well, as they said, it is late than never. Look at the banking and IT sector, the academia and the Science Parks, how many third world fake foreign talents have been brought in, and indirectly how many of our talents have been forced out by these foreigners that now control these positions and industries and quietly and strategically make sure they hire more of their own kinds and keep Singaporeans out!
If Singapore continues with this stupidity of wanting the best of the world to replace Singaporeans, all the 3.5m Singaporean would be replaced as there are 7b people out there, enough talents to replace every Singaporean here.
So, is what Vivian is saying another politically correct statement for the ears of Singaporeans or just another PR exercise, not to be taken seriously, not to be pursue or implemented? How real is this change of thinking and policy?
Have we had enough of the fake talents and wildlife? Is Singapore really thinking of wanting its Singaporeans back home to contribute to the country or just forget about them? Foreign talents, fake talents are aplenty and queuing up at the door? Is this another case of all talks and no action?
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Rb if they bother to check hk has many Singaporean talents working in the finance industry kena forced out by CECA Indians and unable to come back. Knn talk cock
So sad that so many Singaporeans have been forced to eke a living away from home and letting fakes and conmen to take their place in our homeland, to replace them, our very own children.
Singaporean A-level grads with 4 straight "A's also kena rejected for NUS Computer Science course due to lack of places as many return from overseas due to COVID-19 to compete for places at NUS.
So it's strange that Bala talk about shortage of tech talent in Singapore, and while letting in many nationals from India to take out the tech jobs spaces here.
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Many Singaporean IT talents do not want to be bullied by CECA Indian bosses.
That is why they leave IT to work as taxi drivers.
Too Much Pay Breeds Complacency and Incompetence
When was the super salary of ministers introduced?
That year, since that year, the pay was so good that they most probably began to think (I assume) of how to grow their cunningly-gotten through parliament windfall, that everyone of them was spending more time thinking, planning and executing to increase their instant wealth, instead of how to develop the country and the people (the only natural resource Singapore has).
The excuse used was the magic words: "Globalisation. So let the market forces dictate."
In other words, they don't have to do anything. Just let the market forces move accordingly.
What is "market forces"? They are basically manipulative people who have the capital and the cranium to think, plan, exploit and manipulate the markets to their advantages.
That means, let these people exploit and manipulate our markets, our labour forces, and our capital. So, just sit back and enjoy the instant riches acquired with a stroke of the pen through the parliament.
Now, with Covid-19 wrecking havocs to the economy, the labour market, stock market, travel market, all sorts of markets, these happy-go-lucky multi-millionaires suddenly woke up from their euphoric slumber to the horror that we need Singaporeans, not foreigners, to run our country. That we need local-born talents, not imported make-belief talents turned into instant new citizens, like the ones at MAS, DBS, and Temasek and expect them to be loyal to the country like the local-born.
It is a bit too late. (But first, get rid of CECA. Without getting rid of CECA, their hands are tied.) The smarter local-born birds have flown. Those who have not are planning to fly away too.
For example, all my three children are working overseas and are planning not to come back. They have bought REAL properties abroad which they can call their own, not the fake leasehold (long-term rental) HDB government flats sold under the fake "Home Ownership" scheme, that will end up ZERO VALUE at end of 99 years.
What are the basic requirements to live a happy and satisfying life?
1. A permanent and stable place to stay and raise your children.
2. A steady and good-paying job, not a two-year contract job.
3. No NS to interrupt with your job or your family life.
4. A variety of reasonably good and affordable food and clothing.
5. Freedom to possess what you own, not someone decide for you how to spend your savings and force you to donate your organs (unless you opt out) and force you to pay for insurance premiums for insurance policies that you do not want to buy.
6. Freedom to move around, to protest and to assemblies and freedom of speech.
7. Medical services and educational institutions that are easily reached and affordable.
Which country can provide you the above 7 basic conditions?
Think.
Good thinking SSO. Will put it up as a main article for others to read tomorrow.
Singapore - From First World To Third
Robinsons, the household brand in Singapore for 162 years, is closing down through creditors' voluntary liquidation. The outlets in Malaysia have already been closed.
"We regret this outcome today. Despite recent challenges in the industry, the Robinsons team continued to pursue the success of the brand. However, the changing consumer landscape makes it difficult for us to succeed over the long-term and the Covid-19 pandemic has further exacerbated our challenges," said the Chief of Robinsons.
The customer landscape has changed tremendously since the inception of CECA, that permitted the persistent and relentless inflow of people with different tastes, life-style, tradition and customs. The western-oriented gentlemen and fair ladies of good taste have lost their lucrative jobs to the hungrier and more cunningly-endowed caste-embedded competitors from India and so their spending power has suffered greatly, thereby unable to support their "sikit-atas" shopping joints such as Robinsons.
This event is another indication that Singapore has regressed from First World to Third, where the quality of life has dropped for the original Singapore middle class to a new middle-class from India.
What will close next will be the five-star and six-star hotels, night clubs, high-fashion boutiques and the exclusive restaurants for exquisite tastes.
And more and more Little India sprouting up everywhere, plus more and more Muthu Curry restaurants available 24/7.
This may be the Singapore's Swiss Standards of Living as promised by ex-PM Goh?
And don't forget about the airlines and travel agencies They too will likely be scaled down tremendously at least for the next two years.
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