Singapore's total population stood at 4.48 million, up 3.3%
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SINGAPORE: Singapore's total population at the end of June this year stood at 4,483,900.
This was an increase of 3.3 percent from the previous year.
Of this, 3.6 million were Singapore residents – made up of citizens and permanent residents – and 0.88 million were non-residents.
Releasing its latest report on Population Trends in Singapore, the Department of Statistics said figures also showed that non-resident population numbers grew by 9.7 percent in 2006 against a resident population growth of 1.8 per cent.
The department added that the ethnic distribution remained relatively stable with 75 percent Chinese, 14 percent Malays and 8.8 percent Indians, and there were 33,200 more women than men in the resident population in 2006.
As for marriage rates, 34 percent of men and 22 percent of women in the age group of 30-34 years remained single. - CNA/so
So many foreign talents.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/245641/1/.html -
tamago posted liao
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Originally posted by maurizio13:
134517 foreigners became sinkapore citizens from last year!!! This pap govt is freaking unfair.
[b]SINGAPORE: Singapore's total population at the end of June this year stood at 4,483,900.
This was an increase of 3.3 percent from the previous year.
Of this, 3.6 million were Singapore residents – made up of citizens and permanent residents – and 0.88 million were non-residents.
Releasing its latest report on Population Trends in Singapore, the Department of Statistics said figures also showed that non-resident population numbers grew by 9.7 percent in 2006 against a resident population growth of 1.8 per cent.
The department added that the ethnic distribution remained relatively stable with 75 percent Chinese, 14 percent Malays and 8.8 percent Indians, and there were 33,200 more women than men in the resident population in 2006.
As for marriage rates, 34 percent of men and 22 percent of women in the age group of 30-34 years remained single. - CNA/so
So many foreign talents.
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/245641/1/.html[/b]
We guys had been serving National Service...and TODAY...THIS IS WHAT WE GET... S H I T
WE WASTED 2 TO 2.5 YEARS IN ARMY HARD TRAINING WITH THIS SORT OF TREATMENT FROM OUR GOVT!!! -
See!!! This is what a Foreign talent said....
Extracts from Todayonline.
Give foreign talent equal dues
Letter from ROBYN M SPEED
I REFER to the report, “Permanent Residents debate price of citizenship”,
(Dec 5).
One might argue that Singapore citizens in other countries should not be entitled to the same benefits as the citizens of those countries. It is only fair that they pay full health costs and pay more for education.
If they want the same treatment as citizens, they should take up citizenship in that country. It should not matter if Singaporeans have been living in Australia, New Zealand, or the United States for a decade or more — they should not get the same rights as the citizens. They should expect to pay more.
It is only fair. Right?
I bet you would say no; that if you do the work, you should get fair and equal treatment. Yet, that is what Singapore wants to do to foreigners here.
You want the top professionals in the world to come and work here, to build Singapore as the top research place in the world, the top education hub. Yet you want to hold them distant, to treat them as second to the locals.
Surely these foreigners are working for Singapore and her citizens, to build your country and economy, to add to your markets and prestige.
Some come here, with their families, for career opportunities. They pay rent at the market rate for a condo apartment, their children attend an international school (because they want a sense of continuity for their childrenÂ’s education). Add up these costs and they are paying a lot of money, while supporting SingaporeÂ’s economy.
Why do these foreign employees come here? Because the employer decided that they were the best person for the job.
Singapore is a small country and it is difficult for anyone to have the same experience as a worker who has travelled the world, worked in massive markets and learnt from the top people in their fields.
I am an expat. We all have a bond with our homeland and to turn one’s back on it is considered to be almost despicable by many. Our homeland is our home in the world — you cannot lightly ask a person to give that up.
Singapore wants to be an international hub of research, education, tourism and so on. And yet, this latest move smacks of:
“You are welcome to come, but … ”.
Foreigners are either welcome or they are not.
And beware, for there are always other markets for these people to go to. -
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i bet the 134517 'citizens' are all talents.Originally posted by Lowclassman:134517 foreigners became sinkapore citizens from last year!!! This pap govt is freaking unfair.
We guys had been serving National Service...and TODAY...THIS IS WHAT WE GET... S H I T
WE WASTED 2 TO 2.5 YEARS IN ARMY HARD TRAINING WITH THIS SORT OF TREATMENT FROM OUR GOVT!!! -
based on my understanding, to become a SG citizen, not that easy...
among 4.4 million population, how many r citizen???Originally posted by dragg:i bet the 134517 'citizens' are all talents. -
Why bother with all this BullCrap???
Simply DON'T OWE THEM THE VOTES NEXT GE!!! -
Originally posted by Lowclassman:
2.Where do you get this figure??
[b]134517 foreigners became sinkapore citizens from last year!!! This pap govt is freaking unfair./b]
3.spore residents ccomprise citizens and PR.The average is
30,000 to 40,000 new PR every year and about 12,000 to 15,000
become citizens every year in recent years.
In early 2000's it was below 10,000 a year.
4.There are about 400,000 to 500,000 SPR here,in additions to 880,000 foreigners:
1.working---Employment pass,worker permit,S pass,and their family if eligible
2.studying---students and accompaning grand/mothers.
3.special grounds---seeking treatment etc -
Cost vs Value?
I was listening to NewsRadio 93.8FM today. They mentioned something about Singaporeans examining the cost of their citizenship against the value of citizenship.
Well we all know what the big "cost" is to most Singaporean males. National Service. Just those two words remain a huge sticking point in the locals vs foreign=talent debate.
Of course the government has now responded to our good citizens.
All this while we the citizens kept asking, what is the value of our citizenship? (we all know the costs already) We ask, "Isn't the value of our citizenship the same as that of a Singapore PR?"
And what does our good government do? They think about it for a long time and then decide that to appease us citizens, they will raise the cost of being a foreigner.
I mean they could have increased the value of our citizenship. But no, they choose to raise the cost of being a foreigner.
No wonder the foreigners are angry now. Well here's what I would like to say to the foreigners : "Welcome to Singapore! Now you know how it feels to be a true Singaporean!"
Don't you know that this is how our country works? Everything is about increasing costs. ( One wonders where all that increased revenue collected goes)
You are not happy because you feel you should be getting more than the other guy? Ok we'll make you happy by making the other guy pay even more than you ok? But no way in hell will we ever make it cheaper for you!
Cost vs value. Dear government, how about increasing the value of the citizenship for a change? Take the carrot approach. Make the foreigners feel they can gain MORE VALUE than they have now as foreigners rather than INCREASE COSTS for them.
Perhaps the Ministers still don't get it. Well here's how I think they will definitely understand.
Instead of raising Minister's salaries every now and then, why not we ask the leaders of other countries to be paid less!
Or instead of saying we need to peg our salaries to the top 6 earners hence the need to raise Minister's salaries, how about we lower the pay of the top 6 earners every now and then? Get it now? If you still don't get it....sigh....... -
Some of the male PR especially those 2nd generation also served NS. Please take into consideration of this contribution.
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It is a must for second generation PR to serve NS.
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Who wants to hear a joke?
A man dies and goes to hell.
In hell, the devil shows the man 3 doors.
One door leads to an empty room which is freezing cold.
Another one leads to an empty room that is burning hot.
The third door leads to a room packed with people standing with shiit up to their chests. All of them are sipping coffee and chatting with each other.
The devil then asks the man which room he wants to spend eternity in.
The man thinks for a while and says he'll take the room with all the shiit. After all, it doesn't look all that bad. You get coffee (Wow!) though you need to bear with the smell a little.
So the devil hands him a cup of coffee and in he goes.
Ten minutes later, a voice booms out into the room.
"Okay, tea breaks over. Now stand on your heads." -
Originally posted by charlize:Who wants to hear a joke?
A man dies and goes to hell.
In hell, the devil shows the man 3 doors.
One door leads to an empty room which is freezing cold.
Another one leads to an empty room that is burning hot.
The third door leads to a room packed with people standing with shiit up to their chests. All of them are sipping coffee and chatting with each other.
The devil then asks the man which room he wants to spend eternity in.
The man thinks for a while and says he'll take the room with all the shiit. After all, it doesn't look all that bad. You get coffee (Wow!) though you need to bear with the smell a little.
So the devil hands him a cup of coffee and in he goes.
Ten minutes later, a voice booms out into the room.
"Okay, tea breaks over. Now stand on your heads." -
Yay, now all those unused pigeon holes will have owners.
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Yay!!!
Now we have more people than New Zealand! -
Originally posted by Lowclassman:
2.not true.
..134517 foreigners became sinkapore citizens from last year!!! This pap govt is freaking unfair.Since late 2004, the government has also broadened the criteria for assessing citizenship applications to include how the rest of the applicant's family can integrate into Singapore society. This has apparently helped to increase the number of citizenships granted last year to nearly 13,000, which is a 70% increase from the previous year.
----Opening Speech: Population, Immigration and Rooting Singaporeans,by Sylvia Lim,MP.