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Salute to these men! Sediya! http://theunseensingapore.blogspot.sg/2013/10/the-unseen-singapore-10-sg-movers.html

I am watching the television now....Channel 8....I saw an advert for a variety show which the chef move to some ulu place for cooking...then I thought didn't I saw something similar done by the koreans recently on out free to air channel as well ???? we really having a brain drain that we almost copying all the variety show from other countries???? sad

http://singaporeseen.stomp.com.sg/stomp/sg...one_helped.html link has video

..18 Chinese nationals jailed over fake degrees By Faris Mokhtar | Yahoo! Newsroom

Has to know are there any professional car designers in Singapore - locals and foreigners? An NUS engineering team won the recent Shell Eco Marathon Asia competition at Sepang Circuit with the NUS KRUCE Eco Car. Impressive achievement although the car looked a little odd.

Has to know are there any professional car designers in Singapore - locals and foreigners? An NUS engineering team won the recent Shell Eco Marathon Asia competition at Sepang Circuit with the NUS KRUCE Eco Car. Impressive achievement although the car looked a little odd.

Was driving along ECP and saw this Van with this Ad of its company... Don't know whether to laugh, cry, angry or sad. I guess if any SGeans going to their orpid to appry for job they will give you this sign : We don't serve Singaporeans

Good/interesting read... sorry.. the blog is too long to repost it here http://moolahoooh.blogspot.com/2011/03/fak...-singapore.html

I came across the following website: http://www.phrc.eee.ntu.edu.sg/People/Page...earch_phrc.aspx Look at the number of foreigners in that web page. Singapore really have no local talents? I hope they don't say 80% of the staff and students in our universities are Singaporeans. BTW, we are not talking about construction or shipyard workers.

Is there something that these talent saw while working in the establishment that they found wanting? Obviously there is something wrong with you when you cannot attract bright people.

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Came across this in hwz current affairs Posted by 4Dluckystrike When reading abt IT talents still in demand .. I can only summarised with my own experience :Our own talents no longer wants to be in this line. Reason: 1) Pay low even with degree + certs(MCSE,CCNA) Seriously, have classmates who are offered 2K plus.. and pay is dropping as companies are comparing with foreign talents. Those who stayed either moved overseas or to another area with minimal involvment in IT and they are ones with best technical knowledge... 2) No career progression within the field. Can you imagine whole project outsource to china and india??.. So where got need for managers or tech consultants developers?? They just need sales ppl with minimal knowledge and direct the rest to the overseas team. So what r the remaining posts available ???

Shortage of talent is a standard excuse that can be used to justify a whole range of stuff from importing FTs to justifying sky high pay to why you should only X for the MIW. Is this fact or myth? Please discuss. I think we have no more and no less talents than any other country. Just that over here, ball carrying is a high weightage criteria to be officially classified as "talent".

We need foreign talent to run our companies as we are unable to find capable Singaporean? UOB and SIA have CEO who are local talents! Any other examples of successfully run companies by our own boys?

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PM warns of talent loss, leaving no 'central core' to lead S'pore Country therefore needs to draw in foreign talent, encourage overseas citizens to return By Lydia Lim, Senior Political Correspondent HONORARY CAP: PM Lee receiving a London School of Economics cap from LSE director Howard Davies (right) at the LSE Asia Forum. With them is the chairman of the LSE Court of Governors Peter Sutherland. -- ST PHOTO: MUGILAN RAJASEGERAN SINGAPOREANS are the ones who will suffer if the current outflow of talent leaves the society bereft of 'a central core' that can lead the country forward, the Prime Minister warned yesterday. It is the third time Mr Lee Hsien Loong has expressed his concern over the loss of talent since the Cabinet reshuffle two weeks ago. He was speaking at the fourth London School of Economics (LSE) Asia Forum, which saw top minds from Britain and Asia engage in a robust debate on the best and worst aspects of today's knowledge economy. The PM identified the loss of talent as one of three major challenges facing small, open societies such as Singapore in this era of global talent and information flows. 'To do well, a country needs a core of its ablest citizens, those with both the intellectual and social acumen to play leadership roles in the economy, the administration and the political leadership. 'Without that central core to take the country forward, the society cannot perform to its full potential, and the citizens will suffer,' he said. NEED FOR ABLEST TO LEAD 'To do well, a country needs a core of its ablest citizens, those with both the intellectual and social acumen to play leadership roles in the economy, the administration and the political leadership. Without that central core to take the country forward, the society cannot perform to its full potential, and the citizens will suffer.' - PM LEE But, Mr Lee said, Singapore must accept such talent flows as a reality, draw in foreign talent and encourage its citizens who study and work abroad to return home. He also highlighted two other challenges for societies in the knowledge age, in his speech to 600 LSE alumni, civil servants, academics and executives attending The Politics Of Knowledge forum. The LSE hosted it with the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. The first challenge is the unequal distribution of economic benefits, with the lion's share going to those with the right skills and abilities. The second is the instant transmission through the Internet of unfiltered, raw information or misinformation, with their potential to spread extremist views, stoke religious hatred and lower the level of public debate to one in which emotion rather than reason prevails. Following his speech, the discussion shifted to the trade-offs in the economic sphere when Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam, an LSE alumnus, chaired a session on how knowledge drives growth. Professor Danny Quah, head of LSE's economics department, gave an upbeat assessment of Asia's progress in the decade since the 1997 financial crisis. He highlighted how growth across Asia has rebounded, lifting half a billion people out of poverty. 'Asia continues to pull east the world's centre of gravity,' Prof Quah said. Mr Tharman noted that one area where Asia has not recovered is in the rate of fixed investments in productive areas. Part of the problem may lie in the constraints some countries face in building the institutions their societies need to assimilate knowledge from abroad as quickly as possible, he said. Acting chairman of the Brunei Economic Development Board Timothy Ong said there remains much unfinished business because of the huge gap - in incomes, output and knowledge capabilities - between Asia's high-performing economies and the rest. Prof Quah later said there was a trade-off between growth and income disparity. China's income gap, for example, has widened considerably as its growth rate soars. But the income inequality between rich and poor countries 'completely dwarfs' the gap that exists between rich and poor people within countries, Prof Quah said. The top 1 per cent in the world earn as much as the bottom 57 per cent. 'That kind of disparity you will be able to get rid of only through economic growth at the bottom of the world distribution of countries. That's exactly what I think can be achieved through knowledge and productivity,' he added. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saw this article on straitstimes, Singapore losing own talents and foreigner comes in to replace the loss. Did singaporeans leave the country to work/live in another foregin land, just because the conditions in homeland singapore is not favorable enough? Or being rejected, and sees no opportunity in Singapore to grow oneself at all?? Wat you guys think of this?

http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne%2BNews...0213-49492.html why complaint when you encourage more FTs in (which is not a completely bad idea) when 3 or 4 out of 5 jobs in 2007 was taken by FTs many many years ago you are sillyporeans to go to distant shores to find wealth and knowledge then you turn and call quiters etc no wonder meecar is so depressed