Married for three years, hubby not keen to start a family (Asiaone 11 Jan)
The Star/Asia News Network
I feel depressed and lost because my husband is bad-tempered and selfish. He doesn’t respect my feelings or advice and does whatever he wants. When I need him, he’s not there for me. We have lots of arguments because his friends, hobbies and family are his priority.
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S’pore workers put in longest hours: Survey (ST 11 Jan)
Jan 11, 2010
S’pore workers put in longest hours: Survey
They top international poll of 13 economies; MOM’s figure is 45.9 hours a week for 2008
The report puts them at the top of 13 economies in the group’s Global Wages Report for 2008-09, surpassing even the notoriously hardworking Japanese and Taiwanese.
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Opinion: Poor Employment Practices – Lack of Compensation Package
Our Poor Employment Practics – Lack of Compensation Package
Written by: Gilbert Goh
Many people who were retrenched during the recent recession lamented how badly they were treated after been laid off by their companies. Though retrenchment is generally expected by many people when there is a down turn, more can be done by the authorities to ensure that compensation is paid out when someone is being laid off.
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Sleep loss may affect health by curbing exercise (The Age 5 Jan)
Sleep loss may affect health by curbing exercise
A number of studies have linked chronic sleep deprivation to a heightened risk of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Now, a small study suggests that low levels of physical activity during the day may partly account for the connection.
In a study of 15 healthy men, researchers found that a couple nights of grabbing only four hours of sleep caused the men to curtail their physical activity compared with days where they had gotten the standard eight hours the night before.
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The Singapore Solution (National Geographic Magazine)
If you want to get a Singaporean to look up from a beloved dish of fish-head curry—or make a harried cabdriver slam on his brakes—say you are going to interview the country’s “minister mentor,” Lee Kuan Yew, and would like an opinion about what to ask him. “The MM?Wah lau! You’re going to see the MM? Real?” You might as well have told a resident of the Emerald City that you’re late for an appointment with the Wizard of Oz. After all, LKY, as he is known in acronym-mad Singapore, is more than the “father of the country.” He is its inventor, as surely as if he had scientifically formulated the place with precise portions of Plato’s Republic, Anglophile elitism, unwavering economic pragmatism, and old-fashioned strong-arm repression.
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Out of work, and loving it (ST 21 Dec)
Dec 21, 2009
Out of work, and loving it
Some laid-off Wall St workers find it liberating to get out of the rat race
JUST PART OF THE BUSINESS
‘To get laid off may just be integrated into a narrative of profit and loss that they have dealt with day in and day out on Wall Street.’
Dr Caitlin Zaloom, a professor at New York University
NEW YORK: -Twelve months without a job. Fourteen months.
Eighteen.
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An Unfair Termination Story
Hi Gilbert,
Just wanna share my story with you. Anyway, please keep my name and email anonymous should you want to relate to your readers.
Sometime in July this year, one of my ex-colleague left and I volunteered to my direct manager (let’s call him Mr. A) to take over his duties – on top of my own. This was in the hope that I can have a better chance to do more and perform better for the end of year appraisal.
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Leaders are make, not born (Sunday Times 12 Dec)
Mr Kouzes says leaders must be humble, and that a great leader is one “whose feet are planted on the ground, with his head in the clouds dreaming of possibilities”. — ST PHOTO: DESMOND WEE
True leaders lead, fearing no problem that arises. That’s Leadership 101, or so it seems.
Gathering the top managers of Ford Motor Company in 2006, incoming car czar Alan Mulally had this poser: How well was their legendary company doing?
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Some good can come from the Woods scandal (Sunday Times 13 Dec)
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Dec 13, 2009
Some good can come from Woods scandal
By Ong Soh Chin
Asking why Tiger Woods did the things he did is like asking why a dog licks its bits. The answer is simple: Because they can.
In fact, right until his wife Elin Nordegren allegedly whacked him on the noggin, damaging his career, his dignity and his Cadillac SUV, Woods, conceivably, could do anything he wanted. And that included supposedly having sex with porn stars, abusing sleep medication to heighten his sexual pleasure and dreaming up erotic fantasies.
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Foreigners for skilled service jobs must clear English test (ST 3 Dec)
Mr Wan (far right) with his coursemates, his Taiwanese waitress colleague Sophia Lu, 23 and Chinese national Zhou De Jun, a houseman at the Ritz-Carlton. — ST PHOTO: LAU FOOK KONG
SINGAPOREANS know too well the frustrations of not being understood by service staff from foreign lands when out for a meal or shopping in Orchard Road.
New rules, however, are going to be introduced to help resolve the problem.
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What killed SAP CEO Ranjan Das and lessons for corporate India
SAP India CEO Ranjan Das Dies After Gym Workout
Ranjan Das, CEO and MD of SAP Indian subcontinent died after a massive cardiac arrest in Mumbai on Wednesday.
One of the youngest CEOs, he was 42.
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My ST Forum Online Letter: Let’s strive for a kinder and softer society (19 Nov)
Nov 19, 2009
Let’s strive for a kinder and softer society
I APPLAUD the initiative by the Singapore Kindness Movement (SKM) last weekend to push for a kinder society. I hope each of us will bring kindness to our everyday life and not just that weekend.
Singapore has much progress to make in spreading kind acts throughout society. Many people are too stressed out by the struggle to make ends meet. The economic downturn does not help. In fact, it has forced many to strive to put themselves ahead in the workplace, oblivious to the feelings of their colleagues. Survival of the fittest seems to reign.
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Charm of a modern dad (Sunday Times 15 Nov)
| By Sumiko Tan |
My friend Hurricane thinks that the quality of my life would be much improved if I experienced parenthood.
There’s no greater feeling in the world than having a child, he says, adding that there is still time for me to squeeze in a baby, or try IVF, or even adopt.
Oh please, I tell him, eyes rolling. You’re mad.
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Working less now to work longer later (Sunday Times 15 Nov)
Shefali Rekhi
Working five days a week and retiring in your 60s is the norm in many societies.
But leading researchers of life expectancy at the Ageing Research Centre of the University of Southern Denmark are calling for a change.
A study of life expectancy trends in the past century shows that many people can expect to live longer and the majority of those born after 2000 will likely cross 100.
Based on this, Professor Kaare Christensen and his colleagues are suggesting that people should have the option to work fewer hours during their prime years, have more time for family and leisure, and the opportunity to retire much later.
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Marital woes and gambling debts contributed to man’s suicide (ST 10 Nov)
A casket arriving ahead of the wake for Mr Ng Chee Kiang and his children – five-year-old Xavier and Cheryl, aged three. — ST PHOTO
HOURS before he fell to his death from his block of flats while his children lay dead inside their home, Mr Ng Chee Kiang was seen walking to a shop to buy 4D lottery tickets.
A neighbour in Ang Mo Kio Avenue 10 said she ran into him at a traffic light junction at about 9am last Saturday.
