5.18M of population. Good or bad?
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peapot:
Actually I heard from the grapevine that LKY's target is 6million. So if true that means there should be more people coming in since our birth rate is so low.
Unless infrastructures keep up with population growth to 6 millions in less than 5 years, Singapore will face greater problems in the future. Just take the health sector for eg. Our Minister for Health already reiterated that our hospitals are facing a very acute shortage of beds. Singapore is really not ready to face another global outbreak of disease. During SARS in 2003, we have one of the highest no. of cases in the world depite our small population. Same thing with H1N1. Our population was so badly infected by the disease that the hospital authority literally said that it could not really know how much of the population had been infected. The only fortunate thing is that this disease is not that deadly.
Besides, HFMD has constantly hit new recorded high among children every year. Again fortunately most are not fatal. And what about Dengue fever? Also a new recorded high this year. Why are we hit with such high record of sicknesses in proportion to a small population of our???
What if one day we are really hit by a very deadly contagious disease??? With an acute hospital beds to cope, how ??? How did we come to this stage of health issue??? -
david59:
Sheer signs of congestion. We live too close to each other - the lift buttons we touch everyday - at our homes, office and shopping centers, the poles and handles on the public transport we hold on to, the traffic light panels we touch, the cash that goes in and out of our pocket/handbag - easy transfer of virus - not to mention those that's airborne...peapot:
Actually I heard from the grapevine that LKY's target is 6million. So if true that means there should be more people coming in since our birth rate is so low.
Unless infrastructures keep up with population growth to 6 millions in less than 5 years, Singapore will face greater problems in the future. Just take the health sector for eg. Our Minister for Health already reiterated that our hospitals are facing a very acute shortage of beds. Singapore is really not ready to face another global outbreak of disease. During SARS in 2003, we have one of the highest no. of cases in the world depite our small population. Same thing with H1N1. Our population was so badly infected by the disease that the hospital authority literally said that it could not really know how much of the population had been infected. The only fortunate thing is that this disease is not that deadly.
Besides, HFMD has constantly hit new recorded high among children every year. Again fortunately most are not fatal. And what about Dengue fever? Also a new recorded high this year. Why are we hit with such high record of sicknesses in proportion to a small population of our???
What if one day we are really hit by a very deadly contagious disease??? With an acute hospital beds to cope, how ??? How did we come to this stage of health issue???
That's why first thing foreigners and children must learn is to WASH HANDS and keep them to yourself as much as possible when in public places. -
If really any serious issue cropped up… the rich and elites can always move to a "safer" region to tide over…
only peasants will face the full impact of the disaster… -
peapot:
Actually I heard from the grapevine that LKY's target is 6million. So if true that means there should be more people coming in since our birth rate is so low.
That's the initial figure, peapot. He eventually reduced it, more each time he spoke of the topic. I couldn't find the video clip that I saw, he said something like \"Singaporeans cannot accept\" kind of comment.
It reminds me what my husband said, that \"politics is compromise\" - 政治是妥协
If we do not make a sound, silence will be taken as agreement. If we as individuals are willing to speak our thoughts and make our stand, we could at least derive something that will benefit everyone. -
news.. greedy employer.
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=3436570
Don't need the foreign worker but yet bought them in to contribute to the overcrowded trains and buses.. so that he can pocket money from the workers.
The worst kind.. shd impose a severe sentence..EDMW:
Kenneth Lim,73, charged for making false statement under empolyment act and faces 60 charges of phantom worker scam. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN
Construction firm boss Kenneth Lim Ong Long padded his list of local employees with bogus workers so as to be eligible to recruit more foreigners. The 73-year-old would then collect $6,000 for each of the 30 Chinese nationals he hired last year.
Sauce: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_722091.html -
limlim:
How to falsely declared CPF contributions made to Singaporeans employed?news.. greedy employer.
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=3436570
Don't need the foreign worker but yet bought them in to contribute to the overcrowded trains and buses.. so that he can pocket money from the workers.
The worst kind.. shd impose a severe sentence..EDMW:
Kenneth Lim,73, charged for making false statement under empolyment act and faces 60 charges of phantom worker scam. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN
Construction firm boss Kenneth Lim Ong Long padded his list of local employees with bogus workers so as to be eligible to recruit more foreigners. The 73-year-old would then collect $6,000 for each of the 30 Chinese nationals he hired last year.
Sauce: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_722091.html
Where he collect $6,000 from?
How he manage to get away until discover?
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limlim:
That's part of how the Roman empire fell... By the end of the Roman empire, there was only 7 banking fammilies who owned Rome, most Romans has left Rome, leaving only those who could not afford to move away behind, and they had very low fertility rates due to the high inflation.If really any serious issue cropped up.. the rich and elites can always move to a \"safer\" region to tide over..
only peasants will face the full impact of the disaster.. -
Oppsgal:
How to falsely declared CPF contributions made to Singaporeans employed?limlim:
news.. greedy employer.
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?t=3436570
Don't need the foreign worker but yet bought them in to contribute to the overcrowded trains and buses.. so that he can pocket money from the workers.
The worst kind.. shd impose a severe sentence..
[quote=\"EDMW\"]Kenneth Lim,73, charged for making false statement under empolyment act and faces 60 charges of phantom worker scam. -- ST PHOTO: AZIZ HUSSIN
Construction firm boss Kenneth Lim Ong Long padded his list of local employees with bogus workers so as to be eligible to recruit more foreigners. The 73-year-old would then collect $6,000 for each of the 30 Chinese nationals he hired last year.
Sauce: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Singapore/Story/STIStory_722091.html
Where he collect $6,000 from? How he manage to get away until discover?[/quote]foreigners looking for jobs here pay $$ to employers/HR people to secure jobs.
This has been reported in the papers before. I often wondered why some co. heads lamenting locals do not apply to their job advertisements, who knows the HR people could have kept their resumes and submitted resumes of those foreigners who paid them instead??? :evil: -
pinky:
Are they the only middlemen?
foreigners looking for jobs here pay $$ to employers/HR people to secure jobs.
This has been reported in the papers before. I often wondered why some co. heads lamenting locals do not apply to their job advertisements, who knows the HR people could have kept their resumes and submitted resumes of those foreigners who paid them instead??? :evil: -
this is just an example of china pregnant women rushing to hk to give birth, denying many local citizens a bed and delaying the delivery of local babies.
with growing population and limited hospitals being built, i wonder if we have to fight for a bed with citizens and foreigners in the future.
http://hk.news.yahoo.com/%E5%85%A7%E5%9C%B0%E5%A9%A6%E8%A1%9D%E7%94%A2%E6%88%BF-%E7%B4%AF%E6%B8%AF%E5%AA%BD%E7%84%A1%E4%BD%8D%E7%94%9F-224438617.html
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