Tan(See Leng) told reporters last Saturday that the government would examine the diversity of the workforce in sectors that need a lot of foreign workers. He said that MOM hopes not to see a concentration of workers from a certain source or nationality.
“From the perspective of this Covid-19 pandemic, one of the painful lessons we have learnt is that if you overly rely on one particular country, whether it is labour or for your talent, and if something happens and you get disruption, then you are going to be in a much more difficult position,” he said.
During the debate, Tan disclosed that the proportion of Indian nationals among EP holders had increased from 14% in 2005 to 25% last year. That is to say, among the 177,000 EP holders last year, one quarter came from 1 single country alone – India. He didn’t disclose similar figures for S Pass holders.
The above is from the correspondent and posted in TOC. What Tan See Leng said is like MOM does not want but has no choice, whatever that means, and so there is a concentration of workers from a certain source or nationality for so many decades or more than one decade. There is no choice, only India has the talent Singapore needed, other countries did not have, and so is no talent Singapore. Singaporean talents are only good to be grab driver and security guards or to deliver food. And the govt could not do anything about it, could not diversify, and still figuring how to go about it. By the time they come up with a solution, maybe another decade would have gone by and MOM would be run by a new batch of people...maybe from India.
What I find it puzzling is that the number of EP holders had increased from 14% to 25% last year. Why is this puzzling? If you turn left and turn right, or go to the central business district or go to East Coast or Chennai Business Park, all you see are foreign workers from one source or nationality. And they made up only 25%? Why is that so? If 25% is already filling everywhere, where is the 75% that could not be seen? Is it that our eyes are deceiving us or the numbers are funny? Should not we be seeing the 75% everywhere instead of the 25%? Is there a concentration of Ceca Indians in Chennai Business Park and Mumbai Financial Centre? Dunno there, no body knows. It just happen last night.
Something is not right. Who are the 75%, angmohs, pinoys or China Chinese? And together they are drowned by the 25%. Real or not? Maybe 25% is bigger than 75%.
Would the imbeciles take a walk in Chennai Business Park and Mumbai Financial Centre, without putting on their sunglasses?
PS. A country with no local talents. A country that badmouth its own citizens as no talents. A country that everyday bragged about how good foreign talents are even if they came from funny universities with funny or fake degrees. A country that told its graduate PMETs to retrain, to upskill as drivers, cleaners and security guards, and food delivery boys and girls. A country with no citizens, afraid to talk about citizens, only referred to them as locals or residents. Should be called a hotel instead of state if citizens are a shame to be mentioned.
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Wow ! This posted article is critical and lot of sense. I hope the "talented" millionaire mintster in charge can respond in quick time. Not doing so, it seems that they agree with the comments made. Yes, they refuse to use the word "citizen" but "local" in many of their speeches. Are they ashamed of us the citizens who hold pink cards and red passports ?
We "citizens" deserved to be treated like dirt when we persist in voting in demi-gods to serve and sacrifice for them.
Wake up, citizens! Free yourselves! You really deserve better politicians!
What a evil MOM. Say one thing do another thing.
Look like we have a step-MOM .
"Wow ! This posted article is critical and lot of sense. I hope the "talented" millionaire mintster in charge can respond in quick time. Not doing so, it seems that they agree with the comments made. Yes, they refuse to use the word "citizen" but "local" in many of their speeches. Are they ashamed of us the citizens who hold pink cards and red passports ?"
How many times the MOM has been saying the same thing ? Since last year ? It has been saying that they all this decades , then once exposed and cannot tahan, we have this Joker LEE come out and say "WE NEED FU@#$@#KING FOREIGN TALENT"
of course, let's not kid ourselves all along the government ministry, just like Milo Queen is puppeted by Joker LEE. I don't think on the whole the government is bad, it made bad by this imbecile useless and insecure MiniLee. This government is just doing what MiniLee want in exchange for high salary. Is it not surprise we land up in this shit ?
Don't be misled by the government, after this pandemic over, they will change tuneand continue to do what they done in the past. History of PAP has shown that they are incapable of change, and only excel at wayang, nothing else, only good for form but no substance.
The MOM say say only but give excuses when it comes to reality.
Just using the template excuse claiming Singapore has no such talents eg in banking must be causing past banking leaders and those who have departed squirming and wriggling in their graves. Just like claiming that those who earned less than S%500K as mediocre really is a slap in the face of the first generation leaders that earned pittance during their time. They must be also mediocre, right?
Oh, what about the claim that no other country has talents in banking and yet you find Chinese banks topping the list of the 10 biggest banks in the world.
What about the audacious claim that no other country has the talents in construction except India? Isn't China's construction industry a showpiece around the world in construction of dams, bridges, HSR, highways even diverting massive rivers for irrigation inside China itself Those are not talents and inferior to the Indians? What a joke?
China is the smartest country in the world regardless of political system. Why ? You know the true test of whether a country can sustain its own future and survival is whether they have technological culture , not just infrastructure alone. The reason why China is so strong and the whole world are using China product because China copy products from other countries and improve it , and call it their own, make it cheap, good enough, or even surpass competition at price-performance ratio. Steve Jobs famously said a good artist copies, but a great artist steals, and this is what made China great.
Look at our pathetic SinCity. Government focus everything like businessman, like opportunist, create stupid hub like sport hub, technological hub, financial hubs , hub this hub that with infrastructure but with no proper foundation and culture. Build it and they will come so say the conman. When hub don't make money , bail it, close it or rename it. We need 3rd world foreign talents so say the conman when in fact, they need it because they want business in that foreign countries and the agreement sign in exchange for great influx of craps coming to SinCity.
Isn't any wonder we didn't excel at anything other than bullshit ?
Jack of all hubs but master of none!
They paid a foreigner millions to be a postmaster when the job is simply sending mails and packages.
How many foreigners they have employed and paid millions to run chicken rice stalls when the business is locals with no foreign competition? Even if you need to sell chicken rice in foreign countries you do not need expensive foreign talents from little villages in the third world. All the local bank branches need foreign talents to run?
I told you the world leaders are going mad.
Staring Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the two top-class mad comedians and political entertainers of the world.
Followed by Tsai Ing-wen, a Japanese disguised as Taiwan's DPP leader, acting like a clown to challenge the 1.4 Billion mainland Chinese to a fight until the end, meaning either to secede Taiwan to Japan or to destroy Taiwan and the Taiwanese in the end.
The 3rd on the list of madness is Modi the Todi of India. He should also be awarded the best actor of Bollywood, a first class comedian in his own right. Excellent play-acting and pretending and full of himself. The whole of India exists only for him, at his pleasure. In fact, in his idiosyncrasies and fantacies, the whole world exists only for him and India alone.
The 4th position can be allocated to none other than the group of highly educated and extremely highly paid clowns in Singapore. They are so good in play-acting that at least 60% of Singapore voters are mesmerised by their jokes and magical illusions. Especially so in the flip-flopping and weirdo management of Covid-19 Pandemic, or End-The-Meek. The meek are dying everyday, in a way murdered by unseen hands in the shadow. Especially those hapless and defenseless old, weak and sickly people. No one to protect them. Left to the mercy of the India Variants of Covid-19, that the WHO for political reason changed its original name to Delta Variants, probably because D stands for Deadly?
The 5th one .......
The more we complain to government about covid rising number the more the number goes down... So incredible that I almost cry.
from 5000 to 4000 now to 3000 plus in just matter of few days. No wonder Singapore is known as city of miracle.
If we complain some more eventually there will be no more virus, the world should follow Singapore. What Singapore secret in reducing the number ? Cannot tell you otherwise it is no longer miracle anymore. Must keep secret a secret just like Singapore reserve, temasek, gic loss to maintain miracle, myth and legend.
Why suddenly stop reporting the vaccinated and unvaccinated in the Covid-19 Pandemic reports?
Very suspicious and very likely that somebolee is trying to cover up the tales of the two groupings?
According to a UK official report, 80% of recent infections are from those fully vaccinated and only 20% are from the partially vaccinated and unvaccinated.
As Singapore's Covid-19 situations, the ups and downs, follow very closely similar to UK's situations all this while, it is very likely that the infections and deaths figures for the vaccinated are much higher than the unvaccinated.
In the US, the vaccinated also incurred a much higher infection rate than the unvaccinated.
Whatever the case may be, one thing is certain. The mRNA EXPERIMENTAL VACCINES are not as effective as the Pharmas have repeatedly claimed to be.
Even today, with all the available data and facts proving that the Pfizer and Moderna mRNA vaccines are not effective and last only 3-4 months, the two Pharmas are still clinging to their previous claims and even have the audacity to refute the facts that have been revealed.
The whole world must wake up and get together to sue these two Pharmas or at least restraint them from causing further harm and confusion to the World.
Rb the reason likely u s that the 75% are SG Indian converted from Ceca so it's not wrong to say that only 25% EP holders are indian
That is the Singaporean problem. They do not like to hear anything unpleasant. Brush it aside or sweep it under the carpet. Just don't forever KPKB, just doing something about it. If you feel too hot, get out of the kitchen. You always have a choice.
What talking you? Are you not confused?
Martin Niemoller wrote this famous poem: I quote
First they came for the communist,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn't speak up,
because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn't speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time,
there was no one left to speak up for me.
Unquote
Some people think they are not affected and play blind, deaf and dumb. But when they are affected, it is too late to regret about it.
@Anon - Rb the reason likely u s that the 75% are SG Indian converted from Ceca so it's not wrong to say that only 25% EP holders are indian
Indians only make up 8.7% of the resident population of Singapore.
@Anon - I heard they also convert indian become chinese so that appear not so many indian.
"Indians only make up 8.7% of the resident population of Singapore. "
Did Indian become malay just like Milo president so the number look small in stat ? Transformer ?
Anon 647 - Who knows? Only Redbean knows the true answer which he publish here.
btw, you should not use Transformer. That is a children's term, not suitable for serious issues here.
COVID-19 Recovery Grant
Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents
The Courage Fund (TCF) - Lower-Income Households
At least one household member is a Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident
CareShield Life
Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents
ComCare Long Term Assistance (LTA)
Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents
ComCare Short-to-Medium Term Assistance (SMTA)
Singapore Citizens and Permanent Residents
Fresh Start Housing Scheme
Have at least 1 Singaporean parent and 1 Singaporean child
Home Caregiving Grant
Singapore Citizen or Permanent Resident with a parent, child or spouse who is a Singapore Citizen
Tell me there is many many out there with schemes to include the RP...................................If this dont bleed money i dont know what does....
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