You disagree with Comrade Lee?Originally posted by Cindyfeh:ha ha ha
Comrade?Originally posted by meleagent:You disagree with Comrade Lee?
cheers what? What to cheers about? So good to cheers meh.....?Originally posted by Salman:PAP has done a great job with the economy.
cheers
Do not think Chee Soon Juan has that much cash. But i'm sure your PAPpy masters has dough to spareOriginally posted by Salman:Did Chee Sonn Juan pay you millions to chio?
Dear mr salman,Originally posted by Salman:So where did Chee get his money from?

To avoid direct competition with China and India in manufacturing, Singapore is moving to bolster its finance and other service sectors with the aim of creating a knowledge-based economy, Lee said.I do agree with that approach...I think that is the logical thing do but the question is whether can do it? We will be competing with London and Hong Kong for financial services and with South Korea in R&D. Is our population skilled enough and yet cheap enough to compete with Londoners and the Koreans. Each batch of students at Oxford and Cambridge is being actively recruited by top financial companies...do we have people of similar calibre? I presume our solution is to recruit foreign talent....and that will not help the jobless NUS Arts graduate.
To achieve the goal, Singapore plans to invest 3 percent of its gross domestic product into research and development, he said.
i guess we have to keep upgrading... or Singapore will be left behind. and Yes.. the jobless arts students are a problemOriginally posted by oxford mushroom:I do agree with that approach...I think that is the logical thing do but the question is whether can do it? We will be competing with London and Hong Kong for financial services and with South Korea in R&D. Is our population skilled enough and yet cheap enough to compete with Londoners and the Koreans. Each batch of students at Oxford and Cambridge is being actively recruited by top financial companies...do we have people of similar calibre? I presume our solution is to recruit foreign talent....and that will not help the jobless NUS Arts graduate.
this is the most salient issue. the older population... it's gonna be real tricky to see how they solve thisOriginally posted by oxford mushroom:And again all that will not solve our immediate problem with the many uncles and aunties with O levels and below, in their late 40s and early 50s, having been retrenched from production lines. What do we do with them? Can we persuade them to work in Batam or in China as supervisors in production lines, where their old jobs have been re-located? PM Lee's statement is an admission that with their current skills, we cannot do much for them in Singapore...
The government's plans might work for Singapore, but I still do not see how they will work for the majority of Singaporeans...
The jobless Arts graduate are jobless because this nation has a little academic /geopolitical research and analysis sector, not to mention a critical mass od media and journalism firms.And many are not willing to break and move abroad to work.Originally posted by oxford mushroom:I do agree with that approach...I think that is the logical thing do but the question is whether can do it? We will be competing with London and Hong Kong for financial services and with South Korea in R&D. Is our population skilled enough and yet cheap enough to compete with Londoners and the Koreans. Each batch of students at Oxford and Cambridge is being actively recruited by top financial companies...do we have people of similar calibre? I presume our solution is to recruit foreign talent....and that will not help the jobless NUS Arts graduate.
And again all that will not solve our immediate problem with the many uncles and aunties with O levels and below, in their late 40s and early 50s, having been retrenched from production lines. What do we do with them? Can we persuade them to work in Batam or in China as supervisors in production lines, where their old jobs have been re-located? PM Lee's statement is an admission that with their current skills, we cannot do much for them in Singapore...
The government's plans might work for Singapore, but I still do not see how they will work for the majority of Singaporeans...
We do not have a high standard journalistic culture.Originally posted by LazerLordz:The jobless Arts graduate are jobless because this nation has a little academic /geopolitical research and analysis sector, not to mention a critical mass od media and journalism firms.And many are not willing to break and move abroad to work.
Originally posted by Lazylordz:i'm a loser
First sentence, you know who to blame.Go ahead.Originally posted by Salman:We do not have a high standard journalistic culture.
We need to import foreign talent to kick start a push towards higher standards.