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IT WILL be months before the first cards are dealt at Singapore’s two casinos, but several employees have already been fired because of stringent rules that dictate who can work there.
Resorts World Sentosa (RWS) has fired more than 30 casino employees, while Marina Bay Sands (MBS) has also told an unknown number of workers to go.
Hi Gilbert!
I came across your site whilst surfing the web for a support site for the unemployed.
Briefly about myself … I am 36, Malaysian Chinese, female and resigned in April 2009 from my MYR150k / annum job. Reason being that I needed a break and the work culture of the organisation was doing me no good. I am still looking for a job (albeit a good job, altho in times like this it is hard to even say that). During the course of my unemployment I have done 4 papers and gotten 4 certs, worked at MalaysiaKini briefly for about 3 months (but felt I didn’ have the knack for journalism) and am currently working at a marketing job (that’s paying 1/2 of what I used to get). At the same time, I am sending out my CV to scores of companies (both within KL and Singapore) for jobs within my area of specialism.
Does Divorce Make People Happy?
Findings from a Study of Unhappy Marriages
By Linda J. Waite, Don Browning, William J. Doherty, Maggie Gallagher, Ye Luo, and Scott M. Stanley
Call it the “divorce assumption.” Most people assume that a person stuck in a bad marriage has two choices: stay married and miserable or get a divorce and become happier.1 But now come the findings from the first scholarly study ever to test that assumption, and these findings challenge conventional wisdom. Conducted by a team of leading family scholars headed by University of Chicago sociologist Linda Waite, the study found no evidence that unhappily married adults who divorced were typically any happier than unhappily married people who stayed married.
Every year, thousands of women – and increasingly men – subject themselves to liposuction at a clinic or hospital here in a bid to attain an enviable, svelte figure.
This surgical procedure to remove fat through suction is a burgeoning multimillion-dollar industry, but not one without risks, as the recent death of property head honcho Franklin Heng has shown.
While details of what caused his death have not been revealed, it has nonetheless cast a pall on a controversial industry that has, in the last few years, been the subject of much heated debate that has split the medical fraternity and seen the Ministry of Health’s (MOH) eventual intervention.
MDs can be a lot younger these days
He brushes aside his youth and lack of life experience as possible obstacles in running a $50m company.
Fri, Jan 15, 2010
The Business Times
WHILE not denying that he is one of the youngest – if not the youngest – second- generation successors in town, PowerPlus Group managing director Marcus Ong brushes aside his youth and lack of life experience as possible obstacles in running a $50 million company.
Sell flat for $300,000 profit? No way
Out of 60 residents polled, 58 say they are staying put in popular HDB estate.
Mon, Jan 11, 2010
The New Paper
RETIREE Wang Mei Ling is sitting on a potential profit of about $300,000 for her HDB flat in a prime location. But she’s far from happy.
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OCALA, Fla. — Ilse Telesmanich, 90, sprained her ankle hiking in South Africa last August. She tried to keep going on the three-week trip, she said, hobbled as she was.
“I got very good at hopping on one foot the last time I sprained it,” she said.
But the guides had unfortunately failed to bring along any crutches — let alone walkers. So Ms. Telesmanich cut the trip short, but she is planning on leaving her home here in central Florida this summer to complete what she started.
For many workers the data may be unnerving. Instead of an increase in permanent employment, what’s actually rising is contract employment.
The latest Singapore Workforce report from the Ministry of Manpower showed that nearly 13 per cent of resident employees are on term contracts. On top of this, the percentage of part-timers in the resident workforce rose from 6.8 per cent last year to 8.4 per cent this year. With such a high proportion of employees currently in contract and part-time positions – and with the percentages rising – the very nature of employment has changed substantially.
2009 – a year best left forgotten
Written by: Gilbert Goh
Transitioning.org is happy to have celebrated this year with our loyal readers. Many have told me that 2009 is best left forgotten. Many also hope that the new year 2010 will be a better year for them. I couldn’t agree more.
This year also marked the death of our favourite pop icon Michael Jackson and more significantly America chose a black man as their President for the first time.
A ferocious animal lurks as Singapore enters a brand new year. According to the Chinese horoscope, the lunar new year beginning on Feb 14 belongs to the Metal Tiger – an animal that has little to do with scandals but a lot to do with changes. What should Singaporeans be watching for in 2010?
1 Election watch
‘Newcomers keep society on its toes’
Waning drive of settled generations a concern for MM Lee
05:55 AM Jan 01, 2010
by Derrick A Paulo derrick@mediacorp.com.sg
SINGAPORE – Keeping society on its toes – that is what a regular inflow of migrants, “without too huge a deluge”, will do.
And while Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew recognises that their arrival “worries” the current generation of Singaporeans born here and their parents, he believes it will give a fillip to the sense of drive within the Republic.
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The cover letter content:
Dear Sir/Madam,
AFTER LAYOFF SURVEY – 2009
1) We understand you were laid-off from your job sometime between January and March this year when Singapore’s economy experienced a recession due to the global financial crisis. We hope you have now found a new job.
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.
Beliefnet is proud to announce that Zach Bonner is the Most Inspiring Person of 2009.
He was nominated for living his conviction that no one is ever too young to change the world. He was selected for his compassionate, selfless service to homeless children. Not only has he made it his mission to call attention to their plight, he literally walks his talk–last year he made a 1200-mile “My House to the White House” walk to raise money to house homeless youth. Next year he will help with a project through Variety Boys & Girls Club of Los Angeles.
DESPITE signs of a turnaround in the job market, university graduates are no better off.
In fact, more of them are without jobs and taking longer to land a job, according to revised official figures released yesterday.
Part of the reason is that they often tend to seek jobs that pay close to what they used to earn, said MP Josephine Teo, who is also assistant secretary-general of the National Trades Union Congress.
However, economists interviewed foresee their lot improving in the new year, when growth is expected to hit 5.5 per cent, according to a recent poll of 20 private-sector economists by the Monetary Authority of Singapore.
