From Thanh Nien News:
Eleven Vietnamese students have been awarded with the Singaporean government’s full undergraduate scholarship totaling US$1.24 million, or about $113,000 each.
The students will leave for Singapore later this month to attend three or four-year programs in the country’s major universities, including the Singapore Nanyang Technological University.
The scholarship recipients were selected on their academic merit, leadership qualities and potential to contribute to community development, according to a Singaporean embassy press release.
The scholarships, first announced at the 6th ASEAN Summit in Hanoi in December 1998 in the immediate aftermath of the Asian financial crisis to facilitate higher education for outstanding students in affected member nations, has been granted to 155 Vietnamese students thus far.
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It is funny that Some Singaporeans joyfully implicating their north neighbours whenever they are talking about their own failure and think that they still reign supreme in this region whilst :
a. TH, GIC, MAS losing billions of dollars
b. Singaporeans are still dubbed as not capable of taking up the critical positions in the country hence influx of FT
c. Nick Leeson (remember him the infamous FT)
d. Brooke Business School
e, As per some of the comment above Singaporeans being denied the opportunity to study despite eligibility
f. Structured Finance Debacle
All that despite the rave of so called “World Class Standard” and the ideal of “Meritocracy”. Why cry fault when you are part of the system that cherish that ideal…
Non of that come from your north neighbour and at least your neighbour call it “it is what is ” rather than hiding behind certain ideal. Their current success of avoiding aLL of the above is through the government that was formed under NEP. Be it good or bad, their people still have the first opportunity to hold key role before anybody else. Can some of you say the same?
103) Passerby
there was no implication
you may want to re-read my post
Our points of discussion have been confirmed: “Banquet for 840 foreign workers”
http://www.todayonline.com/hotnews/EDC090727-0000054/Banquet-for-840-foreign-workers
Has any of you been given a banquet to recognised your contribution to Singapore? Or does it means your contribution is nothing?
Never mind the Banquet, the question is who paid for it and where the money come from?
Attracting oversea migrant especially those who are classed as talent had been a PAP or LKY policy going back many years. LKY believed even in those early days that SinKapore population was too small to produce enough talents to meet the country need. The early PAP pioneers were all from other parts of Asia. So this is not new but a continuation of previous policy. The difficulty in modern Sinkapore is how to keep them in the country. I am sure there are 4 years bond to tie down these students after graduation. A few might escape but the majority will serve their bond. Being a Sinkaporean did not offer any advantage when competing for a uni place. For those interested to reseach this topic further it would be a good exercise to discover that some policy had not changed even after 50 years.