S’pore gains from M’sia’s brain drain, Those leave are mostly Chinese Options

[skinheadselamany...]

This is a blogspot, it is not an informed piece of journalism, merely a layperson's opinion. I don't know what the authour means by Singaporeans being critical of Australia's "White Australian" policy because I have never come across it. I spend alot of time in Singapore and I have never come across any person from HK being given special treatment by the Singapore govnt. What I do know is that Singapore is the greatest opportunist around, and they are quite happy to take anybody in as long as it will benefit the nation. Maids from the Phillipines and Indonesia, Bangladeshi construction workers, professionals from anywhere in the world. Rightly or wrongly their main and sometimes only aim is progress, which they have achieved with spectacular success. To me at what cost and personally i sometimes feel when i'm there, Singapore has no soul, but this is a discussion for another thread.

I do agree with the autheors last comment though, and that is to racism, wherever it occurs, including Malaysia.

But i guess the bigger question is why do you keep posting articles about Singapore in the Malaysian thread? How is it pertinent to the discussion here? Besides racism in Malaysia is far worse then in Singapore.

You haven't been reading what the kiasuland hate-mongers been posting here? BN has been chosen by Malaysian again & again just like PAP but why is our case different from kiasuland's PAP? And still kiasuland hate-mongers keep harping on the negative quoting from anti-govt websites & blogs. Just because we don't sue and bankrupt political opposition here in Malaysia we have a lot more people freely finding & highlighting the faults (true or fabricated) within the country. Just shows how much freer people in Malaysia are. I doubt you can get away with that in Kiasuland. Hahahahaha!!!

[chutzpah]

Yet another non Bumi from a long list of non Bumis put Malaysia on the map:

Source: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...&sec=nation

Malaysian Chinese as RICS president in London:
PETALING JAYA: A Malaysian elected as the first non-British president of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) will conduct his duties from the heart of the British political powerhouse in London.

Ong See Lian, who will head the prestigious RICS for the 2011-2012 session, will move into an office in the centre of Parliament Square, overlooking the Big Ben and Westminster Abbey, on July 4.

The 60-year-old quantity surveyor from Petaling Jaya, who beat off opposition to win the post in March, will live in a flat at Vauxhall, South London, with his wife Cheah Yoke Ling.
“It is a modest office, more functional than lavish, but I think my window has the best view of London.

[skinheadselamany...]

Yeay!!!

[1+1]

Yet, the Sissypork found themselves unable to compete with the expats...who get the royal treatment. I found it amusing that Singaporean Chinese really hate (or envy???) the migrants from the PRC? WHY?????????

[skinheadselamany...]

Asia
Banyan
Indonesian politicians on the lam
The Singapore slink
Jun 8th 2011, 7:18 by J.C. | JAKARTA

TO SEE Indonesian shoppers strolling along Singapore’s Orchard Road, or to overhear their Bahasa Indonesia in the elevators of some of the city-state’s most exclusive medical centres is unremarkable. After all, the countries are only a short plane ride part, and more affluent Indonesians often take shopping trips or seek medical care in Singapore.

But some Indonesians who lurk around Singapore these days give new meaning to the phrase “weekend escape”. A delegation from the Democratic party of Indonesia’s president, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, were in Singapore this past weekend in a bizarre attempt to persuade the party’s former treasurer, Muhammad Nazaruddin, to return home to face questioning over allegations of corruption. Mr Nazaruddin, who is also a member of Indonesia’s parliament, had been sacked as treasurer last month after being accused of taking kickbacks from the winning bid to build athletes’ dormitories for the upcoming South-East Asia Games. A few days before this, the chief justice of Indonesia’s constitutional court publicly claimed that Mr Nazaruddin had given a court official an unsolicited payment of 120,000 Singapore dollars ($97,000) last year “as a gift”.

Perhaps fearing that his goose was cooked, Mr Nazaruddin followed the well-worn playbook of Indonesian corruption suspects: he caught a flight to Singapore on May 23rd, one day before Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) could secure a travel ban against him. Meanwhile the KPK has been attempting to track down another corruption suspect, Nunun Nurbaeti. Mrs Nurbaeti, an Indonesian businesswoman, left for Singapore last year after being implicated in a bribery scandal involving dozens of lawmakers. Her husband claims she has been there for medical treatment, for a rare condition that “makes her forgetful”. She may have travelled to Thailand and then Cambodia in recent weeks to avoid meeting a posse of KPK officials in Singapore, according to Indonesian authorities. For his part, Mr Nazaruddin claimed to journalists that he was in Singapore for a medical check-up. Democratic Party officials reported on Monday that Mr Nazaruddin told them he was ill, having lost 18 kilograms in just two weeks.

Indonesia remains among the most corrupt countries in Asia, despite a high-profile anti-graft campaign by Mr Yudhoyono. On June 6th the president ordered Indonesia’s foreign ministry to do whatever it takes to arrest Mrs Nurbaeti and bring her back to Indonesia. The weekend confab with Mr Nazaruddin wasn’t the first time that an Indonesian government team was sent to Singapore to locate a high-profile corruption suspect. Last year members of a task force appointed by Mr Yudhoyono found a mid-level tax official, Gayus Tambunan, who allegedly bribed senior Indonesian police, prosecutors, and a judge after being caught with millions of suspicious dollars, at a shopping centre on Orchard Road. They persuaded him to return voluntarily to Jakarta to face trail.

However, Mr Tambunan’s return is quite the exception. The recent daily headlines about the hunt for Mr Nazaruddin and Mrs Nurbaeti have once again highlighted the uncomfortable fact that Indonesia and Singapore don’t have an extradition treaty. Numerous Indonesian corruption suspects have passed through Singapore over the years, include bank owners who are alleged to have stole billions of dollars in state bailout funds during the 1997-1998 Asian financial crisis. In 2007 Indonesia submitted more than a dozen extradition requests with Singapore that are still pending.

The strange thing is that the countries actually did sign a joint extradition-and-defence agreement in 2007. But then the Indonesian parliament refused to ratify it, claiming that the defence pact would compromise Indonesia’s security by giving Singapore the right to conduct military exercises in Indonesian airspace and maritime territory. Some critics have charged that lawmakers blocked the extradition treaty so that Singapore could remain a safe haven for the sort of Indonesian corruption suspects who donate to their campaigns—or even a refugee for themselves. An interesting statistic could support the latter claim: In 2010, 37.7% of all Indonesians named corruption suspects by the KPK were current or former members of parliament, according to Indonesia Corruption Watch.

None of this of course has stopped Indonesian officials and politicians in recent days from trying to deflect criticism by blaming the Singaporean government for not ratifying the treaty. This is yet another well-rehearsed call from the Indonesian playbook: a former vice-president, Jusuf Kalla, once accused Singapore of not wanting to part with billions of dollars that fugitive businessmen keep in its banking system; and the former president B.J. Habibie once accused Singapore of harbouring “economic criminals”. According to a wealth report by Merrill Lynch and Capgemini in 2006, around one-third of the 55,000 millionaires who lived in Singapore at that time were Indonesian, with assets totalling a staggering $87 billion.

The Singaporean government has flatly rejected such claims. One Singaporean official told The Economist that his government signed the extradition treaty back in 2007 and has been waiting ever since for the Indonesian parliament to ratify it, along with the defence pact. The official also noted that Singapore has repeatedly expressed its willingness to consider sending Indonesian corruption suspects home—even without a treaty in place—if the Indonesian government provides adequate evidence that they had committed crimes. Meanwhile Singapore has yet to arrest or extradite any of Indonesia’s current white-collar fugitives.

Whether these latest fugitive scandals are goad enough for Mr Yudhoyono’s government to push the extradition treaty through parliament remains to be seen. Though the president has won two elections on a platform of zero-tolerance for graft, his stance on this issue looks markedly lacking in determination. Other disturbing questions remain: why do high-profile corruption suspects always seem able to slip out of Indonesia, just before a travel ban is issued? And why don’t the Indonesian government and parliament make the extradition treaty a national priority? Until these questions are answered, it’s likely that both the fugitive suspects and the Indonesian government teams that cajole them will have reason to carry on skulking about Singapore. There may be billions of purloined dollars at stake.

Seems like they gain from Indonesian exodus too...

[swingdoctor]

Seems like they gain from Indonesian exodus too...

Well like I've said previously, Singapore's main and sometimes only interest is progress and she will try to achieve this and sometimes any cost. In my opinion not always the best.

[chutzpah]

The more pertinent question should be why the Indon natives and Chinese choose Singapore over Bolehland? Why they all flocked to the lion city instead of going to the mud flats that is KL?

[humiliator]

They reduced their own people to the level of second class citizens in pursuing foreign talents
but at he end of the day singapore only has technology for making $hit water drinkable to show for it. LMAO

[swingdoctor]

They reduced their own people to the level of second class citizens in pursuing foreign talents
but at he end of the day singapore only has technology for making $hit water drinkable to show for it. LMAO

You keep talking out of your @$$. To be honest the only person you are "humiliating" is yourself.

[chutzpah]

They reduced their own people to the level of second class citizens in pursuing foreign talents
but at he end of the day singapore only has technology for making $hit water drinkable to show for it. LMAO

Hello humilty I guess your swine anti body is always high, that explains your constant illogical and incoherent outburst, not to mention the inability to hold a civil discourse. My suggestion to you is to comsume plenty of pork, yes we do have the halal kind in Singapore, it's called halal pork.

On the subject of water, you DO know that there are areas of Bolehland which are going through severe water shortages. So with all the water available in Bolehland, how come it has come to this? The answer is BODOH, got it? B O D O H

This post has been edited by chutzpah: Jul 25 2011, 10:12 PM

[skinheadselamany...]

Well like I've said previously, Singapore's main and sometimes only interest is progress and she will try to achieve this and sometimes any cost. In my opinion not always the best.

So why the incessant need to point to our shores when kiasuland is pretty much the same? Too kiasu?

[humiliator]

Hello humilty I guess your swine anti body is always high, that explains your constant illogical and incoherent outburst, not to mention the inability to hold a civil discourse. My suggestion to you is to comsume plenty of pork, yes we do have the halal kind in Singapore, it's called halal pork.

On the subject of water, you DO know that there are areas of Bolehland which are going through severe water shortages. So with all the water available in Bolehland, how come it has come to this? The answer is BODOH, got it? B O D O H

I don't know about bolehland Maybe they are really bodoh like singapore. But I care only about malaysia