[forum456]

https://sg.finance.yahoo.com/news/a-stru...23298.html

Changi Business Park has also become a lightning rod for citizens’ anxieties about the city-state’s wooing of foreign labor to meet business needs. The predominance of technical operations there has led to what a minister once said was a “concentration” of Indian expatriate workers, with some locals calling the area “Chennai Business Park” or “Changalore".

[Scythian]

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Singapore taxpayers are feeding a white elephant  opposite a major MRT station.

What a shame

[p1acebo]

It can be pitch black in the middle of the day

[Scythian]

It can be pitch black in the middle of the day

Leaving the park untouched for over 100 years, it becomes tourist attraction like Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

[Buffybuffy]

Chennai business park want to toh Liao?

Nestle still there right? Still got some banks there also right?

I shall hold back my champagne first.

[sclim]

singapore has her unique position to promote to invite investment.

1. we are small. so there will be no export ban on any medical or items needed world wide being stuck here.
2. we are natural disaster free. so good for high tech manufacture like chips, data center etc.
3. a regional center for banking. the raised on foreigner pass of all kind has put us in disadvantage.
price may not be the only factors that mom can look at. should combine with all other deparment to see what the extra foreigner can bring this land. demand on space, work creation in local. all these can be quantify.

to grow in the long term. singapore need not only to be the best of kind. also to be the only of kind.
invest in technolgy that is up coming. gaining the only via patent, copyright etc.

investment in quantum technology is good. quantum computing has great potential. it is more suitable for AI then the so hot GPU network for effectiveness. quantum encrypting etc. we are not the first in knowing. but start learning and be the application best then the only can be a way we proceed.

[p1acebo]

But we need to rid ourselves of the ceca scourge.

As long as these smellies are amongst us, nothing advantageous to Singapore can be procured.

[sclim]

remember the previous used of foreigners has back fire due to over consumptions replacing local jobs and not creating local jobs as perceived.

so letting in foreigners must be on a case by case basis of what jobs it create for local.
foreigners make a lot of money via jobs placement for their locals here by taking money at home.
foreigners must not be granted hr and finance jobs. that will create the loop hole for them to make money at home . to the extend of pushing out local. even during covid they try to not employ local by finding why cannot employ and not why can employ. so certain position must be local.

the early letting in of many india indians has back fire even till now. many of programmers are not formally trained like in singapore. but those taken a quick course on the language or package, they do no know about spaghetti code etc. these codes alreadying working in banking system etc. making maintnace very difficult to replace.

don't make the same mistake in AI, quantum tech. get the real knowledgeable tech people for skill transfer not one just with some cert.

remember in a office when foreigners are minority they adapt to local. where they are majority they talk in their
language, form their circle then local become out cast.

mix the foreigners from different countries, cities. so that they remain as minority . if we are to take in more foreigners again. which will happen if we want to grow, must be better managed to reduce impact on local.

from top look down it is always logical. try go down a level and think from that level point of view to see if it is still logical. example if i say foreigner can be minister what do you think local minister will think?