Posts Tagged ‘foreigner’
Balancing needs of both camps (ST 24 Oct)
Balancing needs of both camps Challenge facing govt: How to favour citizens without putting off PRs HOW do you - in PM Lee Hsien Loong's words - 'make the differentiation between citizens and PRs sharper over time to reflect the [...]
Foreign brides in demand in Singapore (Asiaone 20 Oct)
Tue, Oct 20, 2009 Diva & The Daily Chilli Foreign brides in demand in S'pore MORE Singaporeans are getting foreign brides. There were 6,360 such marriages last year, and increase from 5,414 in 2004. This revelation was made in [...]
Expat life is hardly a hardship (Today 9 Oct)
Expat life is hardly a hardship 05:55 AM Oct 09, 2009 by Tabitha Wang voices@mediacorp.com.sg LATELY, there have been rumbles about how Singaporeans feel like second-class citizens next to the nearly 1 million foreigners in the [...]
Perhaps it’s the PRs (Today 6 Oct)
Perhaps it's the PRs ... 05:55 AM Oct 06, 2009 Letter from Chong Lee Ming AS REPORTED recently, Singapore's total fertility rate remains one of the lowest in the world, at 1.28 last year. While most attribute the low rate to [...]
Wanted: Non-Singaporean (The Star 3 Oct)
ASIAONE / BUSINESS / NEWS / OFFICE / STORY Sat, Oct 03, 2009 The Star/Asia News Network Wanted: Non-Singaporean By Seah Cheang Nee AN ELECTRONICS firm that advertised last week for a 'preferably non-Singaporean' engineer has added fuel [...]
Less foreigners = less stress for Singaporeans (Today 30 Sep)
Online Only -- Less foreigners = less stress for Singaporeans Letter from Gilbert Goh 12:10 AM Sep 30, 2009 I refer to "Foreign population slows down" (Sep 29). I am also glad that the Government is slowing down the population explosion. [...]
Integrating expat Indians into Singapore (ST 25 Sep)
Integrating expat Indians into Singapore They are articulate in English, work in professional fields, and more of them are choosing to make Singapore their home. Insight asks members of the Indian expatriate community about the issues they face [...]
More than 100,000 employers to receive $890 million (Asiaone 22 Sep)
More than 100,000 employers to receive $890 million Tue, Sep 22, 2009 AsiaOne More than 100,000 employers, with whom about 1.4 million local workers are employed, will receive $890 million from the third payment of Jobs Credit on September [...]
She quit job as secretary to be a cabby (Asiaone 18 Sep)
She quit job as secretary to be a cabby For the sake of her three children, she switched jobs from being a secretary to a taxi driver. Her husband complimented her career move by becoming a taxi driver himself and they even became partners at [...]
Job interview cues that say “hire me” (New York Times 21 Sep)
Sep 21, 2009 WORKING LIFE Job interview cues that say 'hire me' No set rules but courtesy and common sense give applicants the edge NEW YORK: It is always fun to hear hiring managers recall the most boneheaded mistakes they have seen job [...]
How working parents can find jobs in a Recession (Business Week 16 Sep)
How Working Parents Can Find Jobs In a Recession Posted by: Lauren Young on September 16 Even if the recession is over, the outlook for job seekers remains bleak. I asked Tory Johnson (pictured here), who is chief executive officer of Women [...]
What it takes for foreigners to integrate in Singapore (Sunday Times 20 Sep)
What it takes for foreigners to integrate in S'pore By Radha Basu, Senior Correspondent At an in-house course a couple of months ago, a colleague voiced her deep apprehension about being crowded out of her 'own backyard'. At MRT stations and [...]
Email from a Singaporean PR (15 Sep)
I want to discuss the matter relating to foreign professional in Singapore. It seemed that local university students tend to face tougher competition once they graduate especially during this present recession. Some of the foreign [...]
The jobs that ate a family (The Daily Telegraph 19 Sep)
Gradma Di, left, daughter India, 11, mum Melissa Blackley, daughter Holly, 8, and dad John Anderson at home / John Fotiadis SYDNEY mother-of-two Melissa Blackley is so obsessed with work that she doesn't know what her children eat for lunch and [...]
A Romance Writer Jabs at Singapore’s Patriarchs (New York Times 19 Sep)
Catherine Lim at her home in Singapore. By SETH MYDANS Published: September 18, 2009 Singapore IT is the dress, she said, that catches the eye, the long silk sheath with the slits in the sides that offers what she calls “a startling [...]
