SG Complains

Netizens angered by S’pore PR’s show of loyalty to China

A Chinese national who lived and worked in Singapore was featured on Chinese national TV for her participation in the recent 60th anniversary celebrations

Zhang Yuanyuan, 28, had studied and lived in Singapore for five years and obtained permanent residency. According to Shin Min’s report on Monday, Zhang taught Chinese in Singapore and earned about $4,000 a month.

It was reported in the Chinese evening dailies that upon receiving her permanent residency, someone had told her to consider taking up Singaporean citizenship as well and her answer was: “Beijing is my home.”

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Ok, According to the MP that replied below the article which most likely the cause for concern for many Singaporeans that got irked.

But in an email to STOMP, netizen Stuntman Mike said: “With the influx of foreign talents, can we afford to trust them? After this incident, are we to treat them as equals?

Problems:

• Foreign Talents coming to Singapore earning huge pay cheque before leaving back to their own country to join their military?
• Some Singaporean felt unable to trust PR after this incident
• MP’s replies got some netizen pretty angry
• Some may claim that FT comes to Singapore to get PR as a spring board to other countries but in this case it’s not.

Well, this case is very sensitive and concerned many locals here in the current economic “down turn” which many locals are already struggling to make ends meet and sometimes need to compete with very very very good foreign talents.

I can only give some heads up to everyone including the MPs who makes decisions on such matters.

1. True, Singapore must gain more talents overseas to remain competitive especially those ultra rich & boss level foreign talents so to generate more jobs for locals however there are certain FT that must be monitored for their behaviors after getting their PR and have the option to revoke their PR status if found that they are unable to stay within Singapore for certain determined length of time to work and contribute to Singapore’s economy.
2. I believe PR guys are eligible to serve the Singapore Army (correct me if I’m wrong) and they may “infiltrate” deep within Singapore “3G” army, with this article means these PR guys probably have the “options” to return to their mainland to “join” their own country military too…hmmm is that a security risk?
3. With more FT coming in to compete with locals, there must be a win win situation in the business sense, such as quality FT workers & cheap FT labors but sacrificing the locals indirectly. This is a lose lose situation as locals will starts to migrate out in greater frequencies pulling out their CPF money.

Solutions:

1. Give all Singaporean a higher priority in education to be an entrepreneur to hire people instead of being a lowly paid stressed out worker. All Singaporean must attend business classes as a Compulsory class from Primary School throughout tertiary education.
2. Government Grants to All Singaporean to start up business with automatic approval with the right application & severe punishments if certain criteria are not met after grant approval such as “inability to hire even a single Singaporean”.
3. Give more incentive for PR who stays in Singapore for longer period of time and punishment if they went away for too long.

There are too many things that Singaporean can complaint about this article but the most important is the livelihood of Singaporeans living in Singapore.

If These Singaporean are unable to survive within Singapore the likelyhood of them leaving Singapore will be substantially higher, imagine more locals will seek out foreign partners in order to migrate more easily creating a social problems such as more single Singaporeans unable to get hitched easily locally with locals.

However, understanding the MP are humans with their decisions for the “good” of the economy and Singapore’s competitiveness against the world….they might have the inability to change the status quo as many of the qualified Foreign talents did pumps in huge amount of money into Singapore to give Singapore the cutting edge & “almost” immune to recession.

If you got other solutions to this complaints or even something I had not mentioned above do write in the comments below but don’t target the MPs personally but on the problem direct. (be nice hehe)

(Disclaimer: I am not responsible for any of the comments below)