Singapore is top location to live in in the world

[cass888]

Not from the Singapore press by the way.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/3/11/nation/20090311170048&sec=nation

SINGAPORE: The Malaysian cities of Kuala Lumpur and Georgetown are among the top 10 locations in Asia where Europeans prefer to work and live in, according to a latest international location ratings survey.
Kuala Lumpur was ranked ninth and Georgetown 10th, after Singapore, Kobe, Yokohama, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Macau, Seoul and Taipei, said ECA International, an agency that develops and provides solutions for the management and assignment of employees around the world, in its annual Location Ratings Survey.
The survey rates living standards in more than 400 locations globally, according to categories including climate, air quality, health services, housing and utilities, isolation, social network and leisure facilities, infrastructure, personal safety and political tensions.
Its overall ratings normally would be used by international human resources departments to establish allowances which compensate expatriate staff for the difficulties of adapting to living in their assignment location.
Both Kuala Lumpur and Georgetown were also ranked ninth in Asia for Asians to live in, the survey said, adding that in the world's rankings, they took 61st and 64th spots, respectively.
In that same global category, Singapore took first placing, followed by Kobe (3), Yokohama (4), Tokyo (6), Hong Kong (11), Taipei (56), Macau (56) and Bangkok (63).
"These rankings reveal a large gulf in the quality of living among Asian locations," said ECA International Regional Director Asia Lee Quane.
He said, while there were a handful of locations in Asia which offered Asian assignees a good standard of living, the majority of locations would be challenging in some shape or form and therefore, warranting high location allowances.
The survey also said Baghdad remained the least favourable location to live in, followed by Kabul, Karachi and Port-au-Prince.
"A lack of suitable facilities for expatriates, along with high personal security risk, makes these locations the least desirable," the survey said. - Bernama

 

[Bigfuck]

Not from the Singapore press by the way.

S'pore, HK on tax blacklist
Wed, Mar 11, 2009
Reuters

PARIS, March 11 (Reuters) - Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria, Singapore and Hong Kong will be added to the OECD's list of non-cooperative tax centres, French newspaper La Tribune said on Wednesday, without giving details of its source.

The newspaper said the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development would include around 30 countries out of 84 that were examined.

It also said the list could be revised between now and the summit of G20 leaders on April 2.

"According to our information, the OECD has notably added Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria, Singapore and Hong Kong to the list which already includes Andorra, Lichtenstein and Monaco," the newspaper said.

An OECD spokesman denied there was a new list of non-cooperative tax centres.

"What the OECD has done is that we have responded to requests to some G20 members for information concerning different countries and territories' approaches to the issue of exchange of information for tax purposes and it will be up to the G20 countries as a group to decide what they do with this information," he said.

The paper said the G20 group of industrialised and emerging economic powers was debating whether to make the list public. It said France and Germany wanted the document to be published.

France and Germany last week proposed new steps against non-cooperative tax centres and called for a revised set of criteria to draw up the new list.

One proposal was to make financial institutions spell out in their annual reports if they worked with non-cooperative centres. Another was to make supervisory authorities take this extra risk into account in the capital requirements for these institutions.

 

[jimmyfallon]

not from the singapore press by the way.

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/3/11/nation/20090311170048&sec=nation

singapore: The malaysian cities of kuala lumpur and georgetown are among the top 10 locations in asia where europeans prefer to work and live in, according to a latest international location ratings survey.
Kuala lumpur was ranked ninth and georgetown 10th, after singapore, kobe, yokohama, hong kong, tokyo, macau, seoul and taipei, said eca international, an agency that develops and provides solutions for the management and assignment of employees around the world, in its annual location ratings survey.
The survey rates living standards in more than 400 locations globally, according to categories including climate, air quality, health services, housing and utilities, isolation, social network and leisure facilities, infrastructure, personal safety and political tensions.
Its overall ratings normally would be used by international human resources departments to establish allowances which compensate expatriate staff for the difficulties of adapting to living in their assignment location.
Both kuala lumpur and georgetown were also ranked ninth in asia for asians to live in, the survey said, adding that in the world's rankings, they took 61st and 64th spots, respectively.
In that same global category, singapore took first placing, followed by kobe (3), yokohama (4), tokyo (6), hong kong (11), taipei (56), macau (56) and bangkok (63).
"these rankings reveal a large gulf in the quality of living among asian locations," said eca international regional director asia lee quane.
He said, while there were a handful of locations in asia which offered asian assignees a good standard of living, the majority of locations would be challenging in some shape or form and therefore, warranting high location allowances.
The survey also said baghdad remained the least favourable location to live in, followed by kabul, karachi and port-au-prince.
"a lack of suitable facilities for expatriates, along with high personal security risk, makes these locations the least desirable," the survey said. - bernama

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[tiulehloumoh]

Not from the Singapore press by the way.

S'pore, HK on tax blacklist
Wed, Mar 11, 2009
Reuters

PARIS, March 11 (Reuters) - Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria, Singapore and Hong Kong will be added to the OECD's list of non-cooperative tax centres, French newspaper La Tribune said on Wednesday, without giving details of its source.

The newspaper said the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development would include around 30 countries out of 84 that were examined.

It also said the list could be revised between now and the summit of G20 leaders on April 2.

"According to our information, the OECD has notably added Switzerland, Luxembourg, Austria, Singapore and Hong Kong to the list which already includes Andorra, Lichtenstein and Monaco," the newspaper said.

An OECD spokesman denied there was a new list of non-cooperative tax centres.

"What the OECD has done is that we have responded to requests to some G20 members for information concerning different countries and territories' approaches to the issue of exchange of information for tax purposes and it will be up to the G20 countries as a group to decide what they do with this information," he said.

The paper said the G20 group of industrialised and emerging economic powers was debating whether to make the list public. It said France and Germany wanted the document to be published.

France and Germany last week proposed new steps against non-cooperative tax centres and called for a revised set of criteria to draw up the new list.

One proposal was to make financial institutions spell out in their annual reports if they worked with non-cooperative centres. Another was to make supervisory authorities take this extra risk into account in the capital requirements for these institutions.

Does it mean asshole sinkie would be kena assed hard again.............

 

[jw5]

For the elites.