‘I’m lucky my parents are still able to support me, but I need a job asap to fill the gap’ — Jobless S’porean says

 SINGAPORE: Another young job seeker appears to be in crisis, writing on r/askSingapore that she’s “been jobless for half a year and I’m feeling hopeless.”

u/hazevanilla wrote in an Aug 29 (Tuesday) post that she’s applied for between 100 and 200 positions, and has been “about 4 interviews and all of them ghosted me.”

“They were jobs I felt I had a fair chance of getting because my experience lines up with what each of them were looking for,” she added, asking if anyone else was in the same boat.

“I’m starting to think I might never find a job at all. I’m lucky that my parents are still able to support me but I need a job ASAP to fill the gap.”  theindependent.sg

All I can say is, 'don't worry, CECA will help you and create jobs for you'. Say thank you to CECA. Say thank you to those that made CECA happened.  You are so lucky to have CECA to help you. And CECA is being expanded and improved every year and would go on and on. Because CECA is so good, no one would think of stopping or cancelling this godsend agreement.

Who else can help you other than your parents? You bet, no one else. Don't count on it.

PS. Because CECA is so good, India would not join RCEP unless they accept CECA. Those countries in RCEP are so stupid to turn down CECA. India knows that there will be very smart countries they would accept CECA as their saviour.

In the meantime, more foreigners are welcome to find jobs here and they are flying in by the plane loads. More Employment passes are issued, more PRs, more new citizens.

 

‘I just feel worse with each passing day’ says NUS biz grad who’s been job hunting since January

SINGAPORE: A fresh graduate took to Reddit to crowdsource ideas for job hunting, saying he’s been looking for employment since the beginning of the year and is starting to feel hopeless. u/Ill-Cry-825 wrote on r/askSingapore on Monday (Aug 14) that he graduated from NUS Business School last May. His credentials are pretty good: “ theindependent.sg

Japan poisoning the Pacific Ocean - Kishida putting out a lame show

 Japan is playing the victim part of the Fukushima contaminated water release, instead of China, South Korea and others, trying to gather sympathy from the rest of the world by playing the WTO card. Bring the issue to the WTO for all China cares, but it will make the Chinese people even more intent on avoiding Japanese seafood. The WTO cannot order that the Chinese people must consume Japanese seafood, right? There is such a thing as 'Freedom of Choice' that had always been espoused by the USA itself.

Japananese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida was reported to have eaten seafood with ministers earlier in the week, right after the release of the water, but that action is not going to bring any comfort to the Chinese nor the South Koreans. Remember that the Japs are going to be releasing the contaminated water over 30 to 40 years, or longer with more contaminated wastewater being generated by the day. As with all things dangerous and toxic, continuous ingestion or subjecting to, is going to cause harm in the long run.

For what kind of a show Kishida and his ministers are trying to put on, those fish or seafood could have come from anywhere, probably caught long ago and frozen like those bluefins caught in deep sea and frozen on board for months, so it tells us nothing about the safety of the fish being eaten. It rather makes a mockery of Fumio Kishida trying so early to pull a fast one. If he keeps eating the fishes really caught off Japan for months, I may say he is not trying to pull wool over people's eyes.

As I did mention earlier, the release of those water into the ocean had been talked about long ago, but due to objections, were held back. The most pertinent observation that I could not put away was the fact that the contaminiated water release came just days after Kishida, Yoon and Biden met at Camp David, and it was obvious that the release was effected after given the go ahead by Biden. Kishida is banking on the believe that with Biden's approval, no one would dare to raise objections, coming from the reigning superpower. With that stamp of approval, no one was thought to be daring enough to raise any objection. Fiji did raise a whimper of an objection, but was just brushed aside as noice coming from a Chiwawa by the Japanese. However those objections from China and South Korea, took the Japs somewhat by surprise, but not beyond my expectation. Yoon was probably told by Biden to handle the South Korean side of the problem.

Anonymous

Upholding democracy, human rights, rules of law are American ploys to deceive the world

 Oh, they will use their usual argument of protecting legitimately elected Governments and upholding democratic rule, and therefore they can interfere as the policemen of the world.

But that does not apply to Pakistan, or the coup in Ukraine to remove the democratically elected Government of Victor Yanukovych. Victoria Nuland was behind the move.

Protection of democractic rule is just a ploy, just like human rights, which had not been adhered to in every situation under the UN International Law, and have been construed in warp fashion under their 'Rules Based Order', (their rules and their order), that they are trying very hard to stuff down the throats of other countries. But unable to do that to China, likewise not to Russia and even to India.

A superpower's action should be to act fairly and justifiably in every case. The present unipolar superpower is acting like a bully, behaving like a gangster and interpreting laws like a mafia boss. As people will say, respect is earned, not coerced under the barrel of a gun. 

Anonymous

Slimy and lying Americans are the real thieves

 China has more registered patents in engineering and communication systems than the USA. The fabrication that China is stealing tech from the USA no longer holds water. If China was stealing technology, how did the Tiangong Space Station came about and whose technology? How did China land on the moon? How did China managed to land a space probe on Mars? How could China be ahead of the competition in 5G? Remember that China was prevented from participating in all those developments by the USA and the West for decades. How could China have stolen their technology, some of which they do not even have, like the Space Station and 5G?

USA is trying to steal TSMC high end chip technology that is for sure. And DJI's drone technology as well.

On the pretext of luring TSMC to build factories in Arizona with subsidies dangled in front of them, they later put all hurdles in, hoping to force TSMC to give them the high end chip making expertise, customer details and even the sharing of profits if TSMC wants to get the US$15 billion subsidies. After pumping in almost US$40 billion just for that US$15 billion subsidy and facing so much problems, TSMC is bailing out, not wanting those subsidies and therefore not having to give the high end chip making expertise to the USA. Who has ever heard of such a things as having to share profits with the Government of the country they are doing business in. 

Anonymous

Singapore elected a new President in Tharman Shanmugaratnam

 SINGAPORE: Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam will be Singapore's next President after securing a landslide victory with 70.4 per cent of the vote.

The final result, announced by the returning officer shortly after midnight on Saturday (Sep 2), put Mr Ng Kok Song in second place with 15.72 per cent, followed by Mr Tan Kin Lian, who received 13.88 per cent....

The figures were largely unchanged from an earlier sample count, which had the three men at 70 per cent, 16 per cent and 14 per cent respectively.   CNA

The convincing victory by Tharman indeed surprised everyone. They could expect a Tharman win but not this kind of margin in a Chinese majority state. The result only shows that Singaporeans are blind to racial differences and voting on the basis of merit, that a better man wins.

Another surprising feature of this election is that the sample count is as good as the final result. In future elections, the sample count can be taken as the final result as the variation is just marginal. This vindicates the usefulness and accuracy of a sample count. This may be a Singapore phenomenon. 

Congratulations to Tharman as the new president, and likely the next president, and the next president in the next two elections. He could break the record of Nathan's two term as president.