I suggest our country should merge with Australia.
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American Home shuts down
The No. 10 U.S. home lender, American Home Mortgage, is closing up its mortgage shop today and laying off all but 750 of its 7,000 employees. The company announced its closure last night, and its shares dropped at least 28 percent, to $1.05, in after-hours trading. (MarketWatch) American Home specialized in medium-risk "Alt-A" mortgages, and didn't deal in subprime loans. Its demise was rapid, and highlighted the expanding home-mortgage mess. (Reuters in CNNMoney.com) "The only thing that investors are willing to take on are straight prime, plain-vanilla products with no strings attached," said Fitch Ratings analyst Vincent Arscott. (Bloomberg)
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First thing I want to clarify that I'm a Chinese. And I deeply regret that so many people would rather sell themselves to foreigners. What makes you lose future of SGP. Are they foreigners smarter than us.
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Originally posted by lionnoisy:
I don't mind SMRT getting the Dubai monorail contract. I'd rather they sold their bus operations to Perth-based sWAn Transit. The latter do a better job with managing bus routes.
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And many Asians are equally guilty of looking down on Caucasians as lazy, poor SOBs as well.Originally posted by t_a_s:aus is a white trash, look down on asians -
I think you should prepare to pack your bags off to Ozzieland lah........
No point Singapore got a useless fella like you making STOO-PID suggestion like yours!
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Yes, no $hit about that. However, the attitude of many Caucasians brought about that perception too.Originally posted by LazerLordz:And many Asians are equally guilty of looking down on Caucasians as lazy, poor SOBs as well. -
If SG come to a stage need merge with other country
or countries to survive,pl pick a better run one.
There is no better gauge than Emergency Department
to see how a health care sys run.
Sg one.Seems not too bad.Of course u have to pay.
But look at this:"People ring us up from the public hospitals and they go, 'I've been waiting here five or six hours and it doesn't look like I've got a chance', and we say, 'Come here. You'll be able to see a doctor sooner'," Dr McDonald said.
Guess where are the public hospitals?
Answer:
Sorry again!
Do we have to do very often in SG?Once in a while we may have to.
But I am sure not many.
2.Unfortunately,it seems a national wide problem
Emergency care has decayed: report,AAP | August 01, 2007AUSTRALIA'S emergency departments have deteriorated drastically in the past three years and will no longer cope in a terrorist attack, according to a damning new report....
3.In some aspects,Oz may are better run than SG
The report, released today, compares conditions recorded in wards in June this year with similar data collected back in 2004.
Survey leader Professor Drew Richardson, from the Australian National University and Canberra Hospital, said it showed the wards had deteriorated "drastically" over that time.....
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i dunt mind Spore merge with any country if we drop to
a state that WE HAVE TO BE MERGED.
But pl find a country with politicians with better quality
of Spore ruling party and opposition party.
This kind of politicians calls for halt to muslim immigration
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Originally posted by lionnoisy:
Because Muislim immigrants try to onvert the locals by force. Who will like an outsider to dictate how they should dress and whether they can eat pork?
i dunt mind Spore merge with any country if we drop to
a state that WE HAVE TO BE MERGED.
But pl find a country with politicians with better quality
of Spore ruling party and opposition party.
[b]This kind of politicians calls for halt to muslim immigration
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Aussie NKF --Charity comes under scrutiny,Russell Skelton and Ben Schneiders
August 20, 2007.Page 1 of 2THE nation's most successful indigenous financial conglomerate — controlling assets worth more than $100 million — has refused to disclose to its 18,000 beneficiaries how much profit it makes or distributes.
The beneficiaries include the nation's poorest people living in communities scattered throughout the Central Desert, where the Federal Government has launched an intervention campaign to stamp out child abuse.
Centrecorp Aboriginal Investment Corporation — a highly secretive charitable enterprise controlled by just six people — has not filed detailed financial information since the mid-1990s.
Centrecorp was created by the Central Land Council 22 years ago with "donated" funds and income from the Amadeus Basin gas pipeline near Alice Springs.
An Age investigation has found that a number of the investments are controversial. Others appear to stray from the objectives of its charitable charter and are of little or no benefit to the indigenous people who are meant to benefit from them.
Among its investments is a half stake in Milner Road Foodtown, which runs a major liquor outlet near a town camp in Alice Springs. Many of its operating companies appear to employ few indigenous people.
A number of prominent indigenous identities, who do not wish to be identified, claim Centrecorp has never given a public account of its financial health and has rejected requests for financial help from indigenous organisations.
The four principal officials of Centrecorp last week refused to say how much Centrecorp made, what benefits had been distributed and what fees, expenses and salaries they received....... -
merge ???
we are slowly buying over Australia ... just wait .. soon we will have domestic flights to Darwin
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November 24 2006 - New research by ACTU appears to show that workers in New South Wales are being hard hit by the Government's industrial relations laws with average wages for full time employees falling by AS$33 a week in real terms over the last year.
The research presented to the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) conference in Sydney shows NSW workers have experienced the biggest fall in real wages for full time workers. The report highlights the effect of new industrial relations legislation of reducing living standards for many working Australians and the potential emergence of a US-style two-tiered society with high levels of inequality and poverty.
ACTU president Sharan Burrow said:
"While the economic boom means corporate profits are at an all time high, there is a growing class of people in Australia that are being left behind. Our latest research shows that the Howard Government's unfair IR laws are a contributing factor.
"Average real wages for full time workers throughout Australia are failing to keep pace with inflation for the first time since the introduction of the GST. Recent data also shows that workers in the hospitality and retail industries are being hardest hit.
Workers in our shops, cafes and bars are bearing the brunt of the new IR laws. They work in sectors of the economy where many employers have moved to take advantage of the new IR laws by cutting penalty rates, overtime payments, public holiday pay and annual leave loading.
"The Government's own workplace agency (the OEA) has admitted that two-thirds (63 per cent) of new AWA individual contracts registered under the IR laws scrap penalty rates, a third cut overtime pay, half get rid of shift allowances and another third do away with public holiday payments.
At the same time as workers are facing a fall in the real value of their take-home pay, the cost of living is up with interest rates rising three times this year despite the Prime Minister promising to keep interest rates low. No wonder working families are struggling to make ends meet."
Ms Burrow's also warned that the current Australian growth phase will not last forever. She commented:
"If there is an economic downturn many people will start to feel the effects. Real wages could go down further, people could lose their jobs and Australians who are mortgaged to the hilt could lose their homes and many may be forced to turn to charities for help. The Howard Government's IR policy means that in a downturn low paid workers will be hung out to dry when they most need protection and support." -
Singapore merge with Australia. I am afraid to say that it is very possible Australia willl say no. YOU think the govt there can stand and agree with the way the PAP works. Over there, they take care of the welfare of the people, but PAP is against welfare state. Australia will not take Singapore, for Australia believes and practise democracy, we do not.
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u have experienced the services of Qantas and still survive?
How good luck u are!!
Fake Qantas engineer flies the coop,August 21, 2007A man worked on Qantas planes for 12 months while posing as a senior engineer before management became suspicious about his credentials, a Qantas official says.
The engineer joined the company in 2002 and worked at a level appropriate to his qualifications, but he won a promotion to a more senior position last year on the basis of forged certificates.
It was not until July this year that his superiors became suspicious.
The man, now wanted by Australian Federal Police (AFP), was posing as a licensed aircraft maintenance engineer, but when Qantas checked his records it found he had not passed critical exams needed to work in that role.
David Cox, Qantas executive general manager of engineering, said the man was a qualified aircraft maintenance engineer but for 12 months worked above his rank.
He said this was a "very serious matter" but a "one-off".
"One manager became suspicious of his qualifications and found they didn't stack up," Mr Cox told AAP.
There was a subsequent meeting between Qantas management and the engineer, but that was the last time they spoke to or saw him.
"Qantas has checked everything he has worked on and it checked out. He was not some bloke off the street.
"We are comfortable that the work he did was pretty safe," Mr Cox said.
On specific tasks dual certification was required, with a second engineer required to sign off the completed task as a safeguard, he said.
"We've checked everyone else working as a Qantas engineer, and their qualifications are all above board," Mr Cox said.
An AFP spokeswoman confirmed police were investigating a matter brought to them by Qantas, but would not comment more specifically.
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