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dolphinsiah:
nice video...Environmental Issues in China -Pollution
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbK4KeD2ajI][/youtube]
This video is now currently ban in China...
when profit is above everything there -
http://www.japantoday.com/category/nati ... to-move-on
MINAMISOMA —
In cold drizzle Takayuki Ueno combs a desolate winter beach for the bones of his three-year-old son, unable to move on in his grief until he finds the remains of a boy killed by Japan’s monstrous tsunami four years ago.
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phtthp:
So did the speaker recommend any solution how to stop pollution in China ?
Well it raised a lot of awareness in China ...especially now this video is Ban in China. :skeptical:
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dolphinsiah:
Nice video and had the effect of creating a rift in Chinese government which is now split into 2 camps on this issue.Environmental Issues in China -Pollution
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbK4KeD2ajI][/youtube]
This video is now currently ban in China...
Sometimes, I am sad to see those made-in-China ornaments that people will hardly buy and likely will end up in the rubbish dump to be incinerated thus creating another round of pollution. -
Just returned from overseas and the air outside was really bad. It’s smoky and hard to breathe. Even though everyone is complaining about the COE (I think it’s high too), but on the plus side at least we have clean air leh…
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3 kids facing the court…amos yee (17 yo), ex-rgs girl (18 yo) and a*star scholar (27 yo).
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An Applications Consultant working for Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) of Singapore has been exposed for using a fake degree to get her job.
Temasek Review facebook page shard a blog link that exposed Southern Pacific University as a fictitious school created as a degree mill. According to the blogger, realeyezation, the creator of South Pacific University is a certain "Sir" Geoff Taylor who is also addressed by many titles conferred from his own university where he is the President:
Mr. Taylor holds a plethora of titles, his official one being (according to Southern Pacific University), Sir Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Taylor, B.Com, MBA, Ph.D, F.Inst.D, FAIB. That’s a mouthful of credentials but not necessarily credibility.
You may read more interesting, albeit hilarious, facts about Southern Pacific University from realeyezation’s post.
A degree information forum has also actively discussed the bogus credentials of Southern Pacific University.
Furthermore, all the links for applying for a course and their "e-campus" on the Southern Pacific University Website are broken, leading users to the following page:
The only prominent link on the homepage is one titled "Verification of Graduation". The entire website seems to be made for careless employers to click on this 1 link to check to see that the potential job applicant actually graduated from the "university".
Here is one foreigner in Singapore who openly professes that her degree is from SPU:
Nisha Padmanabhan, in her linkedin profile, it says that she has been working for IDA for over a year. She first started working in Singapore for a software company, Optimum Solutions, based in Changi Business Park. Nisha subsequently job-hopped between companies lasting no longer than a year until she arrived at Hitachi as a Senior ERP Consultant where she worked for 6 years.
Aside from the Ministry of Manpower who approved her Employment Pass and the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore who hired her, below are the othercompanies who did not do their due diligence checking her credentials:
Just last year, a former NUS Associate Professor Anoop Shankar was exposed in the United States for holding fake credentials. Another high profile case is Yang Yin, a former tour guide from China, who used fake credentials to obtain his Permanent Residency.
Perhaps it is time the Ministry of Manpower first do their due dilligence and conduct checks for all Employment Pass holders, those who have attained Permanent Residency like Yang Yin and even those who obtained Singapore citizenship in the recent years when the PAP government opened the immigration floodgate.
The Manpower Ministry must be held accountable for such lapses because many Singaporeans have been bypassed for high paying PMET jobs taken up by foreigners.
How many fake degree holders like Anoop Shankar, Yang Yin and Nisha Padmanabhan are there out there? -
3 March 2015 – Today’s mainstream media wrote an article about how the “A”-level cohort did their best since the curriculum was revised in 2006. Concurrently, Yahoo! Singapore carried Bertha Henson’s blogpost which highlighted some damning statistics which are perhaps already obvious to most: As a percentage, foreigners increase at higher levels of education.
There may be difference admission statistics for different years, but my main concern stems from this ‘drop’ in the number of local students from Pre-university to University. According to MOE statistics in 2013, there were approximately 15,300 graduating JC and Pre-U students with another 24,200 3rd year Polytechnic students. At the same time, the local universities admitted 17,300 students.
If we to extrapolate from Parliamentary statistics and take there to be approximately 13200 local JC and Pre-U students (86% X 15,300) and approximately 21,800 local Polytechnic students (90% X 24,200), then we have a total of 35,000 candidates for university. However, there are only 13,600 local undergraduates (79% X 17,300) in each intake. In other words, 21,400 locals DO NOT qualify for university EACH YEAR.
Given that there are 3,625 foreign students in our local universities in each intake and Roy Ngerng estimates that 2 in 3 of them are on scholarships, how many locals have been deprived of a place?
According to an MOM survey in February 2007, more than 60% of polytechnic graduates have either taken steps to upgrade themselves or intend to upgrade themselves. With such a strong interest, why has the PAP government chosen to give opportunities to foreigners instead? Also, the salary differences for diploma ‘upgraders’ has been negligible, with an average increase of 13%.
LKY mentioned in his autobiography that one of his grandsons did not want to take a scholarship, and would advice his grandson to do so if he were the father, because the $300,000 to $400,000 could be used to buy half a house. Interestingly, the PAP government spends $36 million annually on scholarships to foreign students and $210 million annually on their tuition grants.
Perhaps, hell provides a good time to reflect? -
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