Gan Kim Yong: Global talents will come to Singapore as it ha

• we sacrifice

  11 May 10, 11:28

  Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong became the latest PAP leader to indulge in generous self-praise after launching the new Human Capital Leadership Institute to spearhead Singapore’s drive to become a “global talent hub”.

  Mr Gan claimed that the institute will encourage more innovation for businesses in Singapore and will support companies in nurturing talents into future leaders.

  “Top local talents will want to remain in Singapore and global talents will want to come here because we have the best educational infrastructures to help them develop their leadership competencies and further their careers,” he was quoted as saying in Channel News Asia.

  However, Mr Gan did not provide any evidence or statistics to substantiate his claims that Singapore is an attractive place for global talents.

  According to a Gallup poll done last year among China’s college students, their top three emigration destinations are the United States, France and South Korea. Singapore was not even featured among the top five.

  Mr Gan’s speech appeared to reinforced the message sent by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong during the May Day Rally last week when he called on the understanding of Singaporeans to accept a higher inflow of foreigners.

  Unlike other developed countries which implement measures to safeguard the livelihoods of local workers, Singaporeans are exhorted repeatedly by PAP leaders to compete directly with the cheap foreign workers they are importing into the country while remaining “cheaper, better and faster” at the same time.

  “Employers will hire only the best candidates with the right skills and attributes. The workforce needs to upgrade its skills and knowledge in order to remain competitive and marketable,” Mr Gan said.

  With no opposition in Parliament or independent trade unions to fight for their interests, Singaporeans will have no choice but to listen to Mr Gan and “upgrade” their skills to remain “competitive and marketable” never mind the fact that their wages are being undercut by the cheaper “global talents”.

  http://www.temasekreview.com/2010/05/10/gan-kim-yong-global-talents-will-come-to-singapore-as-it-has-the-best-educational-infrastructures/

• charlize

  11 May 10, 11:53

  Cheaper, better, faster.

   

  Enough said.

• charlize

  11 May 10, 12:07

   

  Reading the comments on the article, seems like quite there are a lot of disgruntled people.

• βέτά

  11 May 10, 12:16

   

  You think if North Korea sets up a global talent hub, everybody from the world would move there?

   

  The PAP government can't even handle the citizens' unemployment rate, yet they want to bring in more foreigners to create more unemployment.

   

   

• Clivebenss

  11 May 10, 12:18

  Originally posted by βέτά:

   

  You think if North Korea sets up a global talent hub, everybody from the world would move there?

   

  The PAP government can't even handle the citizens' unemployment rate, yet they want to bring in more foreigners to create more unemployment.

   

   

  We have talented ruling elites.

  

• charlize

  11 May 10, 12:23

   

  You read some of the comments in the article and quite a few of them make sense.

   

  Are we attracting true talents?

   

  True talents will want to be paid top dollar for their efforts.(Isn't that what the incumbent party is always telling us?)

   

  Instead all we are getting are cheaper foreigners willing to work for lower wages.

   

  Another reader noticed that the "talent" we attract are all the huge numbers of KTV hostesses - going by all the news reports of anti vice raids recently.

   

  Can Singapore be a hub for "talent" ?

• Clivebenss

  11 May 10, 12:25

  coming soon on tv: Singapore Got Talent

  Host by Mr Gan

  

• charlize

  11 May 10, 12:29

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  coming soon on tv: Singapore Got Talent

  Host by Mr Gan

  

  " So what's your talent?"

   

  "I can work longer hours for lower salary - cheaper, better, faster"

   

  "We got a winner here."

   

   

• ditzy

  11 May 10, 12:35

  Originally posted by charlize:

  " So what's your talent?"

   

  "I can work longer hours for lower salary - cheaper, better, faster"

   

  "We got a winner here."

   

   

  

• βέτά

  11 May 10, 12:45

  Originally posted by Clivebenss:

  We have talented ruling elites.

  

   

  Wait a minute.

   

  I forgot "foreign talents create jobs for Singaporeans".

   

  We should bring in more foreign talents to bring down the citizens' unemployment rate to zero.

   

   

   

   

• Clivebenss

  11 May 10, 12:48

  Originally posted by βέτά:

   

  Wait a minute.

   

  I forgot "foreign talents create jobs for Singaporeans".

   

  We should bring in more foreign talents to bring down the citizens' unemployment rate to zero.

   

   

   

   

  the best is near zero but not zero.

  

• charlize

  11 May 10, 12:54

  The picture of him in TR is classic.

• angel7030

  11 May 10, 15:30

  Originally posted by charlize:

   

  You read some of the comments in the article and quite a few of them make sense.

   

  Are we attracting true talents?

   

  True talents will want to be paid top dollar for their efforts.(Isn't that what the incumbent party is always telling us?)

   

  Instead all we are getting are cheaper foreigners willing to work for lower wages.

   

  Another reader noticed that the "talent" we attract are all the huge numbers of KTV hostesses - going by all the news reports of anti vice raids recently.

   

  Can Singapore be a hub for "talent" ?

  you misunderstood what is talent, talent to give birth here so as to compensate our people low birthrates

• we sacrifice

  11 May 10, 16:25

  Originally posted by angel7030:

  you misunderstood what is talent, talent to give birth here so as to compensate our people low birthrates

  
  .. . . .  cesspit dumping faeces and urine again .......

  how many forumers . . . .   have you offered sex to . . . .  by PM?

• we sacrifice

  11 May 10, 16:27

        . .. .    Mr Gan has no idea  .. . .   Gallup has done a poll on destinations . . . foreigners go to . . .. .

   . .    ill informed Mr Gan . ..  ..  .    building castle in the air . .. . .

• NewAgeSensitiveBoy

  11 May 10, 17:58

  can we haf FTs as ministers? cheaper faster better.....

• we sacrifice

  11 May 10, 18:02

  Originally posted by NewAgeSensitiveBoy:

  can we haf FTs as ministers? cheaper faster better.....

  
  .... yes

• Rovingswordsman

  12 May 10, 00:37

  Election must be coming - PAP ministers boasting their high profile pet projects.  Problem is this project benefit ... you guess it, Foreign Talents, again!  And using Singaporean tax money at that.  Sickening.

• Fallen-Angel

  12 May 10, 03:08

  I think they are challenging each other & try to win the 'Most absurd reply of the Year.'

• Arapahoe

  12 May 10, 09:43

  Let me put it this way if the US or Europe Economy is doing Well you won't see that much foreigners here lookin for job.

  I saw french, european all here lookin for job.

• charlize

  12 May 10, 10:56

  Originally posted by Arapahoe:

  Let me put it this way if the US or Europe Economy is doing Well you won't see that much foreigners here lookin for job.

  I saw french, european all here lookin for job.

  Times are bad.

   

  But can they be cheaper, better and faster?

• Arapahoe

  12 May 10, 11:33

  nope but these days MNC are protecting their interest too by hiring their own citizens.

  There is an unspoken policies going on.

   

• Annilator47

  12 May 10, 13:05

  Originally posted by NewAgeSensitiveBoy:

  can we haf FTs as ministers? cheaper faster better.....

  i think we already have that for health and law sector i think...though i am not sure yet

   

   

• angel7030

  12 May 10, 14:36

  Originally posted by Annilator47:

  i think we already have that for health and law sector i think...though i am not sure yet

   

   

  ya, we already got talented minister and MPs from Malaysia and indonesia...i am just waiting for one from PRC.

• angel7030

  12 May 10, 14:37

  Originally posted by Arapahoe:

  Let me put it this way if the US or Europe Economy is doing Well you won't see that much foreigners here lookin for job.

  I saw french, european all here lookin for job.

  
  at least they are more well mannered then Asian talents or PRC talents who talk so loud in the public and got the talent to spit here and there...