The lease part is true. But 99 years is enough for most human beings. 3 room 100k plus flats are still available on resale market. Mostly ~180k plus.
How many generations can you pass down your flat? Don't forget you can't expand a flat like a house, u need to get license from HDB and there's so much you can reconstract a flat because eventually government still own it. You'll blowing your trumpet too much here, HDB flat clearly is a 3rd world housing provider. A lot of foreignes are surprised most Sporeans live in a high rise, overpriced, cramped and so-called subsidised prison-cell like flats. A country with high standards of living would not live in such conditions. Even most of my friends in Malaysia live in spaciouse private house.
Nah, Singapore has done well in manufacturing, banking (world's 4th largest financial centre), trade (amongst the world's busiest port, best airport in the world), life sciences and research. The economy is far from being purely service based.
Europe and US did go down big time in the past few year, but Singapore's economy only contracted by 2% during the BIGGEST FINANCIAL DISASTER SINCE THE GREAT DEPRESSION! The US and Europe can go down, and did go down, but Singapore stayed up.
If spore is doing well in manufacturing, a lot of plants wouldn't had shutdown and moved to cheaper countries. A lof of people in manufacturign end up jobless, change career becoming insurance agents or even cab driver.
Banking is the only haven save Singapore but not anyone can get into banking. Majority of banking jobs go to Foreigners. I don't even want to talk about life science, is a disgrace..haha
Ha ha no need to refute this. Singapore Mandarin is probably more standard than many Hong Kongers (and their first language is Chinese there). And 40% of Mainlanders cannot even speak Mandarin.
So what? even 40% of mainland chinese speak Mandarin is already 500 mil people, Singapore how many can speak Mandarin - 1 million? U got brain or not?
Source: People's daily, China's govt official mouthpeice
http://english.people.com.cn/200609/...05_299608.html
LOL stop going on and on about Nobel prize. It is an European based prize so obviously the Europeans win it more often (not now but in the past). Look at the list of Australian nobel prize winners and you will realise most if not all of them won it before 1965, when the Republic of Singapore was formed. So it is definitely not fair to compare winners of both countries since Singapore wasn't even formed when these people won their nobel prizes!
Rubbish, even China and India have won a few, HK had won 1, Taiwan 1, how do you explain? Well the most recent nobel prize winners were in the 20th century, so thats the difference. Don't keep giving excuse for Spore, even it only becomes independent in the 60s, it should have won at least one by now, if not why keep selling to the world uni its the best in The East (remember the quote NUS is the harvard of the East and NTU = MIT?
Singapore techonology inventions?? too many to list out. Sound card (creative)? thumbdrive? Bionix? SAR 21? New Water? Fever scanning device at airport?
Haha Soundcard from Creative - you talking abot 20 yrs ago, Creative doing now? Good luck to your New Water technology..haha[/B]
Poor Sporeans, got to compete with 3rd world educated people.
Nah, the Singapore government has set ratios for hiring of foreigners. I think it is 10 Singaporean workers to 1 foreign worker. Competition is unavoidable but Singaporeans are English educated many foreigners are not. Without fluent English, you will not find a decent job in SIngapore.
Who's controlling and auditing if the private firms are practising this hiring policy, u? U really believe them. Just go to any foreign banks in Spore and u can see 50% or more are foreigners.
At least Singapore does not allow hairdressers and cooks to take up PR without even landing in the country like Australia does.
Hairdressers and cooks are earning more than a university graduate in Spore, thats the sad truth. Hairdressers and cooks can turn into celebrity, see how well the celebrity chefs are doing well here..haha
the fact remains Australian armed forces are sent to help Americans in war, whereas Sporean solders are sent to supply ration only.
They HAVE to help so that America will reciprocate and send troops in the event Australia is attacked. Australia depends largely on America for her defense. with only 50k men in their Armed Forces, if America does not help in the defense of Australia, she is very vulnerable given that Indonesia has 500k men and Malaysia has another 200k men
Australia solders are highly trained and have real life exposure, even if they need help from America is understandable, American has 330 mil people, Australia only 22 mil. Why do you bring in Indonesia and Malaysia in the equation, do you think they will defend Spore? they are muslim countries after all
3 room 100k plus flats are still available on resale market. Mostly ~180k plus.
