The Online Citizen Asia PSP’s Leong Mun Wai says interplay of Foreign Talent Policy and FTAs have provided “loose arrangement” for foreign PMETs to get job in S’pore Current Affairs
Work pass holders make up less than 25% of employed professionals under SSOC: MOM theonlinecitizen.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theonlinecitizen.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
(a) numerical breakdown by nationality of Singapore’s permanent resident (PR) pool from each of the top 20 countries and further sub-divided by gender; and
(b) of these top 20 nationalities, how many individuals have remained as PRs for the last 10 and 20 years respectively and have not applied for citizenship at least once,
Minister for Law and Home Affairs, K Shanmugam only provided the bare minimum.
Mr Shanmugam said that Singapore’s PR population was 45% male and 55% female but refused to provide further information on the basis that publishing PR population by nationality could have implications on specific groups of PRs and create bilateral sensitivities with their country of origin.
Ministerial Statements proved nothing more than smoke-screens to sell narrative that FTAs are important for S pore s survival theonlinecitizen.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from theonlinecitizen.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Netizen shares personal experience of massive hiring of Indian professionals in Singapore from 2007
On Tuesday (6 July), Facebook page The Alternative View shared one of its readers’ personal experience on how the India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA) has resulted in an influx of individuals from India being hired in a foreign bank here.
This is, however, contrary to what People’s Action Party’s (PAP) ministers Ong Ye Kung and Tan See Leng said in their ministerial statement in Parliament on Tuesday.
In the post, the netizen, who is addressed as a concerned Singaporean, expressed his anger after reading what Mr Ong and Dr Tan said in their ministerial statements.