My friend who holds a job as a carpenter, he was single at 40. Recently, He went to china to look for a wife. He found a 23 year old from a village through recommendation of relatives. He subsequently married her and brought her over here. However, due to her lowly qualification (secondary school), she was not allowed to get PR in the meantime but instead she is currently on visitors’ visa renewable as case by case basis. Their a baby is coming in 3 months time too. So where does the policies leave her ? She is a ‘foreign’ but not a ‘foreign talent’…..
Sad…..another cheesbun.
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Young minds on work holiday
Loh Chee Kong
Some of the best and brightest young minds in the world may be heading here for six-month working stints under a new scheme. The Work Holiday Programme (WHP), which will kick in from December, is aimed at giving Singapore a head start in attracting foreign talent from as young as 17 years old, said Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen on Friday. “In the global race for talent, we need to positively shape international opinion of Singapore and raise our profile.
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“We need to recognise that others have upped the ante and we need to attract and secure a mindshare of Singapore,” said Dr Ng, who was speaking at the Singapore Medical Council physician’s pledge affirmation ceremony on Friday. And because of a “growing phenomenon of well-qualified young students and graduates who travel abroad to gain exposure”, Singapore has to put itself in the “mind map” of these talents early on, he added.
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Dr Ng said: “A positive experience of living and working in Singapore … will encourage some of them to work here when they graduate or at a later stage in their careers.” For a start, the WHP, which is common among developed countries, will be offered to 2,000 university students between the ages of 17 and 30 in Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. The scheme will be reviewed periodically and more countries may be added to the list, said the Manpower Ministry (MOM). The applicants need only to supply basic information about the job they have here. On approval, the ministry will grant the students a six-month pass into Singapore. There will be no restrictions such as specific types of work or minimum salary requirement. However, participants must be able to support themselves during their stay here and show proof of exit after six months, the MOM said. And to attract global talent to Singapore’s medical industry, Dr Ng said that the MOM’s Contact Singapore, which promotes working and living in Singapore, and the Ministry of Health are working with hospitals to identify “key groups of overseas medical talent” that they would “systematically reach out and attract”. Dr Ng said: “We are also going beyond the traditional sources of talent, such as the UK and Australia, to identify new sources such as India, China and Hong Kong.”
Some of the best and brightest young minds in the world may be heading here for six-month working stints under a new scheme. The Work Holiday Programme (WHP), which will kick in from December, is aimed at giving Singapore a head start in attracting foreign talent from as young as 17 years old, said Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen on Friday. “In the global race for talent, we need to positively shape international opinion of Singapore and raise our profile. “We need to recognise that others have upped the ante and we need to attract and secure a mindshare of Singapore,” said Dr Ng, who was speaking at the Singapore Medical Council physician’s pledge affirmation ceremony on Friday. And because of a “growing phenomenon of well-qualified young students and graduates who travel abroad to gain exposure”, Singapore has to put itself in the “mind map” of these talents early on, he added.
Dr Ng said: “A positive experience of living and working in Singapore … will encourage some of them to work here when they graduate or at a later stage in their careers.”
For a start, the WHP, which is common among developed countries, will be offered to 2,000 university students between the ages of 17 and 30 in Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States. The scheme will be reviewed periodically and more countries may be added to the list, said the Manpower Ministry (MOM). The applicants need only to supply basic information about the job they have here.
On approval, the ministry will grant the students a six-month pass into Singapore. There will be no restrictions such as specific types of work or minimum salary requirement.
However, participants must be able to support themselves during their stay here and show proof of exit after six months, the MOM said.
And to attract global talent to Singapore’s medical industry, Dr Ng said that the MOM’s Contact Singapore, which promotes working and living in Singapore, and the Ministry of Health are working with hospitals to identify “key groups of overseas medical talent” that they would “systematically reach out and attract”.
Dr Ng said: “We are also going beyond the traditional sources of talent, such as the UK and Australia, to identify new sources such as India, China and Hong Kong.”
Some of the best and brightest young minds in the world may be heading here for six-month working stints under a new scheme. The Work Holiday Programme (WHP), which will kick in from December, is aimed at giving Singapore a head start in attracting foreign talent from as young as 17 years old, said Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen on Friday. “In the global race for talent, we need to positively shape international opinion of Singapore and raise our profile. “We need to recognise that others have upped the ante and we need to attract and secure a mindshare of Singapore,” said Dr Ng, who was speaking at the Singapore Medical Council physician’s pledge affirmation ceremony on Friday. And because of a “growing phenomenon of well-qualified young students and graduates who travel abroad to gain exposure”, Singapore has to put itself in the “mind map” of these talents early on, he added. Dr Ng said: “A positive experience of living and working in Singapore … will encourage some of them to work here when they graduate or at a later stage in their careers.”
For a start, the WHP, which is common among developed countries, will be offered to 2,000 university students between the ages of 17 and 30 in Australia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and the United States.
The scheme will be reviewed periodically and more countries may be added to the list, said the Manpower Ministry (MOM).
The applicants need only to supply basic information about the job they have here. On approval, the ministry will grant the students a six-month pass into Singapore. There will be no restrictions such as specific types of work or minimum salary requirement.
However, participants must be able to support themselves during their stay here and show proof of exit after six months, the MOM said.
And to attract global talent to Singapore’s medical industry, Dr Ng said that the MOM’s Contact Singapore, which promotes working and living in Singapore, and the Ministry of Health are working with hospitals to identify “key groups of overseas medical talent” that they would “systematically reach out and attract”.
Dr Ng said: “We are also going beyond the traditional sources of talent, such as the UK and Australia, to identify new sources such as India, China and Hong Kong.”
- extracted from TodayOnline
