The ignorance is strong with this one.

CECA bitch is confounded by MOM's request to verify the authenticity of her bachelor's degree despite having completed her master's at SMU:

TPH questions how exactly has Singapore benefited from CECA:

交流站：我本将心托明月 奈何明月照沟渠

这句话出自《琵琶记》第十三出，几言谏父：“这妮子无礼，却将言语来冲撞我。我的言语到不中呵，孩儿，夫言中听父言违，懊恨孩儿见识迷。我本将心托明月，谁知明月照沟渠。”描述子女对父母的好心视而不见甚至出言顶撞。简单说，就是我们好心好意地对待别人，别人却完全不在意，毫不领情，导致自己的真心付出没有得到回报与尊重。

近期最常挂在新加坡人嘴边的话题，应该就是冠状病毒疫情本地死灰复燃。新加坡也因为感染指数上升，可能再次实行病毒阻断措施。令人担忧的是，这一次入侵的是已经变种的病毒。这些变种病毒株，具有更强的攻击力与感染力。最近感染病例最多的，就是来自印度的B16172变种病毒株。事发至今，印度已有近2700万起感染病例，在受感染的人当中，已有30多万人死亡。

如今印度的情况，已达到医院都被挤得水泄不通，疫苗、药物、氧气、床位全面短缺的地步。许多人被留在街上，任由自生自灭。有些人甚至把受感染而死去的尸体丢弃在恒河里，导致大量腐烂浮尸。看到画面，不知道的还以为是人间地狱。有资源的印度人，都想尽办法离开。很多人也为了避开多个国家禁止由印度出发的班机，通过尼泊尔的加德满都机场飞往世界各地。如今，尼泊尔也因此受到了严重疫情传播，情况越来越严重。

印度暴发疫情，情况急速恶化，我国政府二话不说，马上捐献了物资，包括药物、氧气、500多台呼吸器以及7500多台氧气浓缩器。除此之外，为了避免不必要的歧视，无论是新加坡每天的输入病例数据，或是与印度有关的疫情新闻，本地许多媒体都以“南亚”来取代“印度”。可见我国在尽力照顾他们的感受。

可是，印度竟然有一名地方政府首席部长大言不惭，毫无根据地在社交媒体上指责新加坡是最新变种病毒的起源地。他还说这所谓的“新加坡变种病毒”对年幼孩子特别危险，并强烈要求印度政府马上禁止全部来回新加坡的班机。更糟糕的是，不止他一个人无知，印度媒体竟然也跟着起哄，报道这些无稽之谈。虽然我国政府立刻作出澄清，但有些依然我行我素，完全不理会事实真相。之前也见到不少通过《全面经济合作协定》（CECA）在新加坡工作的印度外才，被发现拥有假文凭、歧视本地人等事件，有时真的让人怀疑，我们新加坡到底从中得到什么好处。

如今新加坡再次进入“高警戒解封第二阶段”，学校转为居家学习，居家办公再次成为既定模式，餐馆不能堂食，家人朋友无法如常相聚。这一次会有多少公司倒闭，多少餐馆结束营业，多少家庭受到经济与精神压力而出现裂痕，都是个未知数。

也许，我们得认真考虑一下，将心托明月是否值得。

https://www.zaobao.com.sg/forum/talk/story20210526-1149462

Why cheating comes naturally to Indians

If you don’t cheat, society will treat you as an imbecile who never grew up.

When an Indian child is growing up, her parents ask her at some point: "Beta, which one is your favourite scam?" The kind of scam you like reveals a personality type—a guide to the future, indispensable to worried parents. My answer as a schoolboy was unwavering: "Mummy, fodder scam."

Scams are generational. Those who are born about now will ten years later have their own favourites: Rotomac, NiMo and others that will show up in the time to come.

We Indians are born fraudsters and hustlers. The big guns obviously hunt bigger game. The returns are higher. Every Indian cheats to the best of his/her ability. You do the best you can. It’s what school taught us.

To learn to cheat in India is to learn how to survive. If you don’t, society will treat you as an imbecile who never grew up. Like the freelance writer.

The working principle is this: If you don’t exploit, then you will automatically become the exploited. What happens then is that since everyone is cheating everybody else, all this cheating cancels each other out in the final sum. No one really gains. But it’s something we are habituated and genetically inclined to do, like the way we drive. It’s a mix of nature and culture.

The shopkeeper wakes up and ups his shutters. The spider waits for the fly to come flying in. It could be the smallest of shopkeepers. It’s the reason people don’t change neighbourhoods, although familiarity is no guarantee that you will not be cheated. There is a cold bloodedness to our human relationships: false obsequiousness always follows a successful heist. The cheater respects the cheated’s stupidity. Without that he will be nothing.

This cheating can be about the smallest of things, beginning with plumbers, electricians, carpenters, the cab ride from the airport or train station.

The cigarette seller will keep five rupees and refuse to return the change.

The mobile phone shop man will take a look at you, size you up, then quote you an inflated price for a phone cover and case.

The parking attendant will take an extra ten for parking.

Every tourist is fair game, which is why we have to chaperone, baby sit and play tourist-guide to our foreign guests. They can’t be left alone. They will be fleeced.

You will hand in a five hundred rupee note, the cashier will keep it and return much less than you’d calculated. When you say "Hey, what happened to the rest?", he’ll reply: "Oh sorry I thought you gave me a hundred." He’s testing you. On your face he will make you feel that you’re being unnecessarily difficult. Secretly, he respects you.

The building contractor will cheat. The property dealer will dip his hand in the flowing Ganges. The developer has his hand permanently stuck in the riverbed.

That’s the reason why Indian parents always warn their kids: Don’t let your guard down for a moment. The moment you do, you’ve been had.

To come back to my earlier point, in a system where everyone is cheating everyone there’s a way of things evening out. The system is always in a state of equilibrium.

The shopkeeper will cheat the customer. The shopkeeper will have a heart attack. He will go to a hospital. Here, he is the customer. The hospital will duly fool him, charging an exorbitant amount for tests and medicines. They might throw in an unnecessary stent or three.

Now the guy who owns the hospital will have a boy who needs to go to school. The school will make him part with huge sums of money in lieu of admission, for uniforms, notebooks and text books. The teacher in the school will make the doctor’s son come to him for extra tuitions.

The school teacher’s computer will pack up. He will go to Nehru Place where the computer shop will rip him off for repairs.

Flush with cash the computer shop man will go to the theka where he will be overcharged for the booze. But the theka owner is already supplying several bottles a month for free to the local police station.

Similarly, the fruit seller will invariably overcharge you if you don’t look from around the neighbourhood. But he has to pay hafta to the local goon. Or cop. Or the MCD.

The auto guy will cheat you but when his auto breaks down the auto repair guy will cheat him.

The fancy gift shop guy will put whimsical price stickers on smuggled items, doubling his profits. But remember his mother-in-law will get cancer, which is when the hospital will get the chance to screw him.

Why, for all our family values, family members cheat each other all the time. Especially when it comes to matters of property. The younger brother will keep squatting on prime ancestral property after the patriarch/matriarch has died and refuse to vacate.

And so on.

Basically if you don’t look local enough, you don’t bargain hard and question every transaction, you will be a sitting duck. That’s the default Indian setting. No Indian trusts the next Indian. Trust signals gullibility, not a valued trait in our urban jungle.

This is also the reason why scams don’t bother us much. The current form of our cricket team, and cricketer weddings, is our only moral worry.

One could argue that instead of waking up and making a c of people first thing, why don’t we just carry out our transactions honestly?

Put this question to the devious Indian yourself and see what he has to say.

Just don’t believe what he’s telling you.

https://www.dailyo.in/variety/scams-nirav-modi-rotomac-fodder-scam-pnb/story/1/22537.html

Singapore-India Ties Can Expand Through People To People Engagement: Piyush Goyal

New Delhi: Union Minister Piyush Goyal on Thursday delivered the keynote address at India-Singapore CEO Forum and inviting businesses from both sides to bring in sparkle into India and Singapore's partnership, he said that "ours is a strong and productive partnership, which can be taken to higher levels."

The minister said that it is a partnership that will help us become Aatmanirbhar and also give opportunities for us to expand our global footprint.

Union Minister of Railways; Commerce and Industry; Consumer Affairs and Food and Public Distribution Mr Goyal urged businesses to look at ways how we can expand the engagement and encourage India's youth to use more innovative technologies.

He said India and Singapore are working together in cyber security and disaster relief, and education and skill development can be taken up as pillars where we can work together and learn from Singapore's experience.

"E-Commerce, Fintech, smart manufacturing, healthcare are significant areas where India offers a large market. Our working together in these areas can truly transform India's own effort to give the best to our people," he said.

Mr Goyal expressed the belief that the new regional order that will emerge, will rest on the strong shoulders of Singapore and India.

He said that through budget 2021-22 and various other measures, the Prime Minister has been trying to prepare the country to engage with the world from a position of strength, in the next decade.

Similarly, the Singapore budget also this year has focused a lot on transformation and innovation.

He expressed happiness that Singapore and the GIFT city which is our first operational smart city, have tied up with the Singapore exchange to boost international investment in India.

The minister said that he looks at expanding the Singapore-India ties resting on a greater degree of people-to-people engagement and that can rest on three B's: - Buddhism, Bollywood and Business.

Mr Goyal added, "Our women entrepreneurs have done us proud, and the huge potential in this area can be expanded to improve India and Singapore's relationship."

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/singapore-india-ties-can-expand-on-basis-of-greater-degree-of-people-to-people-engagement-piyush-goyal-2373659

This is what happens when you give the PAP a blank cheque to govern. ;)

MOE had better come clean!!!!!

MOM's actions are too little too late; irreparable damage has been done to Singapore's reputation as an upstanding purveyor of talent.

University In India Allegedly Issues Fake Degrees, MOM Investigating 15 S’pore Work Pass Holders

University At Himachal Pradesh In India Reportedly Sold 36,000 Fake Degrees

Over the last few days, social media has been ablaze with news of a university in India selling fake degrees.

Of particular interest is news concerning a number of graduates from the school were reportedly found to be working in Singapore.

On Wednesday (17 Feb), the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said that they’re currently investigating 15 work pass holders in Singapore who have declared qualifications from the university.

What’s of particular interest is that several of the university’s graduates were found to be working in Singapore, if their LinkedIn profiles are anything to go by.

More at https://mustsharenews.com/india-university-fake-degrees

Dr TCB requested a review of the CECA, unfortunately Sinkies refused to vote him into parliament......else PAP would have been suitably pressured to take tangible action to mitigate this foreign worker debacle.

Source: https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19820101-1.2.2?ST=1&AT=filter&K=PM%20singaporean%20workforce&KA=PM%20singaporean%20workforce&DF&DT&Display=0&AO=false&NPT&L&CTA&NID=straitstimes&CT&WC&YR=1982&QT=pm%2Csingaporean%2Cworkf

Just look at who authored this tripe, and you will do well to skip reading it altogether.

Why Have Singaporeans Turned Against Indian Professionals?

With job losses mounting due to the COVID-19 pandemic, some Singaporeans are blaming Indian nationals.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has plunged Singapore, Asia’s shining star, into an economic recession, historically-minded denizens of the city-state might have occasion to recall the 1982 New Year speech made by its founder Lee Kuan Yew.

In the speech, Lee, who ruled Singapore with a velvet fist from 1959 until 1990, promised that the country would have a wholly Singaporean workforce by 1991. Lee said that countries like France, the United Kingdom and West Germany were facing political, social and economic problems due to their large migrant work forces. Arguing that this was not desirable for Singapore, Lee promised that work permits for the country’s migrant workforce in the non-traditional sector would not be renewed and that by December 31, 1984, all such workers would leave.

But Lee never fulfilled this promise and Singapore has seen a steady growth in its population of foreign workers. In 1986, as economic growth picked up after a period of recession in the early 1980s, restrictions on foreign workers were relaxed. Since then, the country’s foreign workforce, which sat at just 10 percent of the work force in the early 1980s, has grown to 36 percent, or around 1.5 million people.

Now, with businesses closing down and job losses mounting due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many of the city-state’s residents are turning their ire towards foreign workers, particularly those from India. In particular, Singaporean social media has discovered a new villain: the India-Singapore Comprehensive Economic Cooperation Agreement (CECA), a free trade agreement signed between the two nations in 2005.

In August, for the second time in nine months, Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) was forced to issue a statement correcting the widespread public misconception that the agreement has led to a large influx of Indian professionals in fields like finance and information technology.

The MTI clarified that there is no provision under the CECA for Indian nationals to become permanent residents and citizens of Singapore. It also moved to quash rumors that CECA requires Singaporean authorities to automatically grant employment passes to professionals, managers and executives from India who wish to work in Singapore.

Despite these clarifications, Singaporean social media continues to buzz with anger against newly-arrived Indian nationals, whom significant numbers of people are blaming for recent, pandemic-induced job losses.

Such narratives are particularly common on Facebook, often bolstered and accompanied by the distribution of fake pictures and videos. In August, a picture of a DBS Bank branch in Hyderabad went viral on Twitter after a user claimed that it was a photo of DBS Bank’s IT department at Singapore’s Changi airport. The user asked viewers to “find a Singaporean or Chinese” in the photo. The post created such a big splash online that DBS Bank was forced to issue a clarifying tweet stating that “pictures being circulated on social media are from our India office, not Singapore.”

Similarly, on the public Facebook group SG Opposition, which has 52,000 followers, the user Michael da Silva in July shared a picture of ethnic Indians sitting at Changi Beach Park with a caption referring to it as “Chennai Park.” Da Silva even accused the government of grating Indian professionals Singaporean citizenship in order to harvest their votes for the ruling People’s Action Party. Similar sentiments have been voiced by other posters on the group.

Reacting to a news article about CECA on Facebook, one Singaporean woman commented: “Our jobs are taken by Ceca! Wait till the ministers’ jobs are also taken by them, then they will know!”

While it is hard to know how far such sentiment reflects real world attitudes, for some observers, the reaction vindicates Lee’s warning in his 1982 speech that a large foreign workforce could foster social tensions.

Writing on his blog “For a Better Singapore,” Yee Jenn Jong, a non-constituency Member of Parliament, blamed Singapore’s obsession with economic growth. He argued that the massive explosion of COVID-19 cases has cast a spotlight on the city-state’s reliance on cheap immigrant labor. “The presence of so many low wage foreign workers has depressed the wages of less-skilled Singaporean workers, which has in turned caused a great divide between those who have benefited from our economic progress and those whose real wages have stagnated or even regressed in the past two decades,” he wrote.

Yee quoted the late Dr. Goh Keng Swee, the architect of Singapore’s economic transformation, who had warned of the dangers of increasing GDP through a large influx of foreign workers and foreign direct investments. Goh was of the view that getting unlimited access to cheap labor would impede the critical need for upgrading and innovation among Singaporeans, Yee said.

Kirsten Han, an activist and co-founder of the long-form journalism outlet New Naratif, added that there was also a racist element to the “too many Indians in Singapore” trope. “This is about #xenophobia and #racism, where CECA (a Singapore-#India trade agreement) is used as shorthand for racism against Indians,” Han tweeted in late 2019, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. She added: “There is also a widespread assumption that there are more Indians coming to #Singapore under CECA than Singaporeans traveling to live/work in #India, hence propping up the narrative that Singaporeans have been cheated/sold out somehow.”

Xenophobia and racism are not new phenomena in Singapore. Indeed, expatriate workers from mainland China, the Philippines, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Myanmar and India have long been blamed for rising unemployment and the overcrowding on public transport and housing. Last November, a video of an Indian man shouting expletives at a condominium security guard went viral, sparking social media outrage. Online vigilantes went on the rampage and told him to “go home” and not bring his country’s caste system to the Lion City. Many also blamed CECA for giving Indian nationals a free pass to work in Singapore.

Some internet users have even conjured up memories of the Little India riots of 2013, when Indian migrant workers set police and private cars on fire after one of their countrymen was knocked down and killed by a bus. “We have seen how troubles like that of the Little India riots of 2013 could happen when we overcrowd our small city-state with the many people that we currently have, not to mention if we allow it to explode to another 235%!” Yee wrote in his blog.

However, the issue with Indians is different in key ways. Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei all have large communities of south Indian heritage. Being from south India, their complexion is dark and they have become identified with what are called Mamak stalls, small food outlets that serve a type of Indian cuisine unique to the southern part of the subcontinent. Because of this, keling, a racist slur, has long been used to refer to them.

But the recent discomfiture against Indians concerns not these long-established communities, but rather the arrival of educated professionals working in high-profile and well-paid sectors like banking, finance and information technology. Being more wealthy due to the higher management positions, they live in upmarket condominiums in East Coast neighborhoods. Indeed, their visibility in banking, finance and IT sectors is one of the sources of Singaporeans’ angst against them.

Laavanya Kathiravelu of Nanyang Technological University said that in times of economic recession, exclusionary sentiments like xenophobia have been known to rise. “People look for easy targets to blame rather than understanding structural issues for change,” he said.

https://thediplomat.com/2020/10/why-have-singaporeans-turned-against-indian-professionals/

Let's warmly welcome them CECA-ians to come here to study and steal our jobs!

DBS Bank CEO Piyush Gupta's alma mater is populated with cheaters

Bribing examiners, smuggling in answer sheets, using cell phones to transmit worked solutions......you name it, hundreds of conniving students (and possibly a whole lot more) from Delhi University have done it. In fact rampant cheating on campus goes as far back as 2014. Lest you accuse me of spreading fake news, please find sample screenshots attached below. Fyi Piyush Gupta graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) degree in economics from St Stephen's College, Delhi University. Does this inspire confidence insofar as importing foreign talents are concerned when such a prominent corporate chieftain is known to have previously schooled at an institution populated with cheaters?

More at https://www.domainofexperts.com/2020/10/dbs-bank-ceo-piyush-guptas-alma-mater.html

No Uptron University no talk.