Overseas
Top 3 Reasons to Emigrate To Australia (emigratetoaustralia.net)
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| Top 3 Reasons to Emigrate to Australia… |
| Moving halfway around the world might seem drastic, if you were choosing to emigrate to any other location but Australia. The land down under is one of the most admired places in the world. |
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Overseas voting may be a failure
| I was happy that Singaporeans staying abroad can now vote for the next election.
However, after receiving news about where the voting stations will be located, I was disappointed. For example, Singaporeans who settle in Australia can only vote at the Embassy in Canberra. There are at least 20,000 Singaporeans staying in Australia. Many have resettled in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. Canberra is the capital of Australia.
To vote in Canberra, most of us have to take a plane, cast their vote and then take a
plane back. Depending on where you are, the journey can either be a one hour plane
ride or three hours. There is also the cost factor. Each return ticket can cost between
$300 to $500 depending on when and where you book the tickets.
I wonder how many eligible Singaporeans will go to the hassle of doing that.
Can the Ministry of Foreign Affairs examine the possibility of having one more voting
station in Australia where there is a huge congregation of Singaporeans here? The
same could be done for other countries where there is a large contingent of
Singaporeans.
It will be a election white-elephant if eligible voters living abroad could not cast their
vote due to the distance of the voting station.
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Anger in China over payout for S’porean killed in crash (ST 27 Feb)
Feb 27, 2010
Anger in China over payout for S’porean killed in crash
BEIJING: The family of a Singaporean killed in a car crash in China has been awarded compensation 2-1/2 times higher than usual, prompting heated debate among Chinese over whether a foreigner’s life is worth more than a local’s.
Citing the higher cost of living in Singapore, a court in China’s central Hunan province ordered defendants to pay the victim’s family 800,000 yuan ($165,000) – more than twice the compensation set for locals.
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Watch India – It May Outgrow China (ST 23 Feb)
Feb 23, 2010
Watch India – it may outgrow China
THIS year will be a momentous one for China and Asean. China will overtake Japan as the world’s second largest economy in terms of current United States dollar exchange rates. (China has already overtaken Japan in terms of purchasing power parity exchange rates). And on Jan 1, the China-Asean Free Trade Area (Cafta) came into effect, establishing the world’s third largest free trade area.
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Thousands of Singaporeans registered interest to migrate to New Zealand (NZ Herald)
Thousands of Singaporeans registered interest to migrate to New Zealand
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10625002
Singapore envies Kiwi lifestyle
4:00 AM Tuesday Feb 9, 2010The bait was better working hours, cheaper cars and housing – and in three weeks thousands from Singapore have registered their interest in living in New Zealand.
An Immigration New Zealand pilot project aimed at attracting Singaporean migrants has resulted in over 1000 registrations each week since it was launched last month, with 3565 potential immigrants having registered their interest in just three weeks.
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Australia axes 20,000 applications in migration clampdown (CNA 8 Feb)
Australia axes 20,000 applications in migrant clampdown
Posted: 08 February 2010 1311 hrs
SYDNEY: Australia on Monday axed 20,000 migrant applications in a major overhaul aimed at clamping down on foreign students gaining permanent residency through courses such as hairdressing and cookery.
Immigration Minister Chris Evans said the reforms, which follow a sudden rise in Australia’s Indian population and an embarrassing rash of attacks on students from the country, would give priority to migrants with higher skills.
Evans said about 20,000 overseas applicants would have their fees refunded at a cost of A$14 million (US$12 million), while new rules would require better English skills and target the “best and brightest”.
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If you can leave Singapore go…(Temasek Review)
By Lawrence Pek
As I am writing this article on my way from Shen Zhen (where I am based now) to Shanghai, my heart is heavy. Too much has transpired in the last 18 to 24 months. Almost every conversation that I have with my family, my friends is about where this country is going and how things have changed. Besides the usual rant on immigration policies, what troubles me is not how and why the PAP has formulated these slew of policies with considerations but without deliberations with their electorate. Rather what we can do about it with these “given conditions”.
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Australia: Killing reveals another kind of race problem (Sydney Morning Herald 9 Jan)
Ranjodh Singh
Killing reveals another kind of race problem
Nick O’Malley
January 9, 2010 – 12:10AM
RANJODH SINGH died badly. His burnt body was found in a ditch by an orchard-lined road on the outskirts of Griffith. It appears he was burnt where he lay, for the dry, clipped grass at the site is still scorched.
The 25-year-old leaves behind a grieving aunt in Griffith, a wife in Melbourne, parents and a brother in the Punjab region of India. But his murder on December 29 has become part of another, larger, story.
