Singapore ranked 70th best place to live in the world after Romania
January 17, 2010 by TR (http://www.temasekreview.com)
Singapore is ranked the 70th best place in the world to live in based on the Quality of Life index computed yearly by Ireland-based magazine “International Living”. (Read report here http://www.il-ireland.com/il/qofl2009/)
The index is produced based on the following nine categories: cost of living, culture and leisure, economy, environment, freedom, health, infrastructure, safety and risk and climate.
Each country in each category is graded on a curve and it is scored relative to every other country. The scores run 0 to 100 for each category. This means the country that gets 0 is the worst in that category, and the country that gets 100 is the best.
The data is collated from official government sources, the World Health Organization, The Economist, and many other journals, tables, and records.
While Singapore scores high on risk and safety, health and infrastructure, it scores poorly in environment and freedom, bringing down its final score to a mediocre 61.
The 5 most desirable places to live in the world are France, Australia, Switzerland, Germany and New Zealand. Singapore is ranked below Japan, South Korea and Taiwan among Asian countries.
Singapore’s leaders have always boasted of their accomplishment of transforming Singapore from third to first world country within a few decades, but if Singapore is really a first world country, why is it ranked among third world countries in terms of quality of life?
It is highly unlikely that this damning report will be published by the Singapore media. Neither will anybody from the ruling party respond to it.
They will probably dismiss it as quite “dissociated from reality” to borrow the words of Law Minister K Shanmugam. But International Living is read widely by Europeans and Americans and they may have a poor perception of Singapore based on the report.
If Singapore really wishes to attract first class talents around the world and not just uneducated peasants from China or India, it needs to improve on the two categories of environment and freedom where it performed particularly badly.
A world class healthcare, infrastructure and economy is not everything that people look for in life. They also yearn for civil and political liberties for them to play a meaningful role in society.
Singapore has a first world economy ruled by a petty third world dictatorship. We cannot claim our rightful place as a developed country in the world so long our archaic, oppressive and obsolete political system remains in place to perpetuate the rule of a particular group of self-serving, power-hungry elites with little participation in nation-building from the rest of the people.
The 70th rating is a bit too high. Should have been lower, actually...
But for aliens one of the best places to live in.
i think Pandora is the best place to live in
singapore=2nd best
japan=best
XD
Originally posted by Miracles&Prophecies:What a joke....
Anywhere within lky sphere of influence is hazardous unfit for human being
What's their No.1? I bet it's Disney. . .
Obviously, it must be the record they hold for being the highest paid Government Ministers in the World.
For the record...
PM Lee Hsien Loong is paid approx 6.5 times the salary of President Barrack Obama of the United States..
Cabinet Ministers like MBT and WKS are paid approx 5 times the salary of Obama...
.. and even a junior Minister of State in the MIW Government is paid more than 2 times the salary of President Obama.
President Barrack Obama = USD 400 K + USD 50 K allowance.
PM Lee Hsien Loong = S$ 3.6 million = USD 2,580,000 K Minister Wong Kan Seng = S$ 2.9 million = USD 2,080,000 K Minister Mah Bow Tan = S$ 2.7 million = USD 1,940,000 K Minister of State = Btwn S$ 1.5 - 1.8 million = USD 1,070,000 - 1,290,000 K
If the above is not mind boggling enough, consider this :
Our mabok Minister MBT, with a salary of USD 1,940,000, is paid more than the combined salaries of the u/m World Leaders put together :
United States
President Barak Obama: US$ 400,000, with US$50,000 expenses
United Kingdom Prime Minister: $US 279,000
Australia
Prime Minister: $US 229,000
Japan
Prime Minister: $US 243,000
Germany
Prime Minister: $US 303,000
France
Prime Minister: $US 318,000
A World Record indeed.
Where's the justification for the obscene salaries they pay themselves ??
wow! yay!!
Originally posted by assolingam:
Obviously, it must be the record they hold for being the highest paid Government Ministers in the World.
For the record...
PM Lee Hsien Loong is paid approx 6.5 times the salary of President Barrack Obama of the United States..
Cabinet Ministers like MBT and WKS are paid approx 5 times the salary of Obama...
.. and even a junior Minister of State in the MIW Government is paid more than 2 times the salary of President Obama.
President Barrack Obama = USD 400 K + USD 50 K allowance.
PM Lee Hsien Loong = S$ 3.6 million = USD 2,580,000 K Minister Wong Kan Seng = S$ 2.9 million = USD 2,080,000 K Minister Mah Bow Tan = S$ 2.7 million = USD 1,940,000 K Minister of State = Btwn S$ 1.5 - 1.8 million = USD 1,070,000 - 1,290,000 K
If the above is not mind boggling enough, consider this :
Our mabok Minister MBT, with a salary of USD 1,940,000, is paid more than the combined salaries of the u/m World Leaders put together :
United States
President Barak Obama: US$ 400,000, with US$50,000 expensesUnited Kingdom Prime Minister: $US 279,000
Australia
Prime Minister: $US 229,000Japan
Prime Minister: $US 243,000Germany
Prime Minister: $US 303,000France
Prime Minister: $US 318,000A World Record indeed.
Where's the justification for the obscene salaries they pay themselves ??
I always know they are world class talent... but now then i know how world class they really are........ more like out of this world class to mi...
70 still rank under 'best'?
hahaha... ya lo... but at least we are quite safe... well at least before the govt decided to threaten our safe place by allowing so many malaysians, bangala, china, philipinos, etc.. into our country...
No minister respond to this issue?
swiss standard of living oni 70th place?
but mai hiam buay pai la.
yeah right....we men also pay them so high salary and still make us pay even more to women upon divorce
Sure Sg is the best place but for women
FCUK FCUK FCUKPAP
Originally posted by Fcukpap:yeah right....we men also pay them so high salary and still make us pay even more to women upon divorce
Sure Sg is the best place but for women
FCUK FCUK FCUKPAP
Relax bro!