Singapore to tighten issue of employment passes?

Yahoo! has reach. The same story on www.reuters.com doesn't get anywhere as much attention.

 

Singapore may tighten controls on foreign execs amid bias allegations

By Kevin Lim | Reuters – Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:05 PM SGT

 

SINGAPORE, March 5 (Reuters) - Alleged bias against locals accounted for half of the employment-related complaints received in Singapore last year, in another sign that the city-state may scrutinise more closely firms which are hiring foreigners to fill higher-paying jobs.

The data provided to Reuters by the Tripartite Alliance for Fair Employment Practices (TAFEP) comes amid growing unhappiness among Singaporeans about the surge in foreigners over the past decade.
TAFEP is a body backed by the Ministry of Manpower and tasked with ensuring fair work practices in the small island-state, which as a global financial, business and transport hub attracts hundreds of thousands of higher-paid foreign workers.
Singapore has already taken steps to curb demand for low-wage, low-skilled foreign workers through higher levies on companies and tighter quotas, and Acting Manpower Minister Tan Chuan Jin will discuss in detail plans to help Singaporeans aspiring for higher-paid jobs when his ministry's budget is discussed next Thursday or Friday.

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http://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/singapore-may-tighten-controls-foreign-execs-amid-bias-080501172--sector.html

I'll miss the tau kua pau and pineapple tarts

Sat, Dec 8, 2012
Shocked to discover the Tau Kua Pau stall at the junction of Joo Chiat and East Coast Road has moved or shut. So too Savory Fare, where I get pineapple tarts and order birthday cakes from.
49 Katong Laksa is also history, the coffee shop replaced by a pub.
These are the places I'll remember.

Tau Kua Pau Address Hock Ann Eating House 131 East Coast Rd Opening Hours 8am-5pm close on Mondays Marianne's birthday Nov 2011