Boiled potatoes, add salt to taste, can manage.

Anyway, grass is definitely not greener on many other parts of the fence – I understand that fresh graduates in Malaysia earn a pittance (MYR1800/month) and even those engineering grads in Taiwan get no more than S$1500 equivalent!

Government should stop getting more foreigners to live here. The overall population of about 5.5 millions should be adequate. If we go for higher figure, more Singaporeans will be stressed.

We should go for 0 % growth but upgrading the old industries.

If we keep aiming for above 5% growth every year, the amount of foreigner workers need can never end.

Q1: Who will be the winners?
A1: The Ministers and the Top Civil Servants.

Q2: Who will be the losers?
A2: The masses, the ordinary workers, local Singaporeans.

Q3: What will be the final outcome?
A3: Happiness for the winners and misery for the losers.

I will have no choice but to emigrate as this government has killed my small-time business. I have been doing the sole-proprietory business charging $X dollar per head for certain training programmes. The government collaborated with NTUC and another tertiary institution and for the same training programmes, they charge each trainee ONE-TENTH of what we have been charging. With the full amount, we already find it hard to survive, yet the government shamelessly undercuts and put the nail to the coffin on many of us. I really ABHOR such moronic behaviour of the government without giving consideration to the sruvival of small-time business people! I am not the only one affected but other providers too.

If any western or down under country offers you PERMANENT RESIDENCY – TAKE IT WITHOUT HESITATION. You will not REGRET it and you will dsomehow realise that other governments are more considerate and objective in dealing with their own business people.

Our local government not only ‘kills’ your business, they tax you heavily and lock out your CPF for good – leaving you high and dry in the process. So merciless they are whacking their own citizens and giving more privileges to the Foreign Talents

SO GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I agreed with deprived stating that i too hope S’pore and M’sia will one day merge (hope i will live to see the day).

Why??

Although the feeling of ‘hatred’ towards them remains as to why back in 1965 M’sia kicked us out.The expel according to my grandad and some of M’sia friends was due to difference in governing views of MM Lee and Tuanku Abdul rahman.Tuanku Abdul Rahman did the expulsion too hastily with whom he later died in regrets.
M’sia will always be our hinterland just as Taiwan and China.

For the past years,it seem M’sia is having difficulty in running an efficient government.As it’s half a century old policy that polarized its multi-racial/religious population,one seems thinking when it will finally called itself Malaysia for Malaysian.

While we here in S’pore are beginning to feel the pinch of too many foreigners.In fact,taking too much of space till i realised the S’pore identity beginning to fade away as time past.
Where are we heading too?

I have tried as far as possible to use the terminology in the media reports or other reports.

Sometimes, they say locals and sometimes residents. They of course mean the same thing (citizens and PRs).

The “number of unemployed locals decreased by 22,400″ is the previous year’s unemployed locals minus this year’s.

Without the break-down of the statistics for all time periods, it may not be possible to come to the likely conclusion that the revision was up or down – perhaps the only thing we can try to ask is why the revisions vary so widely for the related data?

Cheers

Leong Sze Hian

Thanks for pointing out the mistake. We’ve corrected it.

I have pasted the relevant sentence from the article below

Whilst the downward revision of the preliminary estimates for jobs added and jobs to locals was only from 236,000 to 234,900 (0.5%) and 92,100 to 90,400 (2%) respectively, the revision for unemployed residents was a whopping 56,900 to 45,200 (21%)!

Cheers

Leong Sze Hian