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SG govt says foreign students make up only around 10% of universities’ intake but Times Higher Education rankings shows at least 25 percent in NTU and NUS Koped from kwz Credit - Renzokukenz -
Singapore reveals Covid privacy data available to police https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55541001 Singapore has admitted data from its Covid contact tracing programme can also be accessed by police, reversing earlier privacy assurances. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.View original tweet on Twitter "I'm disappointed, but not at all surprised," local journalist and activist Kirsten Han told the BBC. "This is actually something that I've been flagging as a concern since the earlier days of TraceTogether - and was sometimes told that I was just a paranoid fearmonger undermining efforts to fight Covid-19. "It doesn't feel good at all to discover I was right." Eroding public trust? "I think why most people are so angry about this is not that they feel like they're constantly being watched," one Singaporean, who did not want to be named, told the BBC. "We already have that through other means like CCTV. "It's more that they feel like they've been cheated. The government had assured us many times that TraceTogether would only be used for contact tracing, but now they've suddenly added this new caveat." Another person told the BBC they wished they could delete the app, but daily life would be impossible without it. "So I'm just going to disable my Bluetooth for TraceTogether from now on, unless I have to use it to enter somewhere. If the app is not only going to be used for contact tracing, then it's too much of an invasion of privacy." Australian privacy watchdog Digital Rights Watch, told the BBC they were "extremely concerned" about the news from Singapore. "This is the worst case scenario that privacy advocates have warned about since the start of the pandemic," Programme Director Lucie Krahulcova told the BBC. "Such an approach will erode public trust in future health responses and therefore impede their efficacy." Like most countries, Australia has rolled out its own contact tracing app but uptake has been sluggish precisely because of privacy concerns. Singapore was among the first countries to introduce a contact tracing app nationally in March last year. The introduction of the token in June had sparked a rare backlash against the government over concerns the device would be mandatory. An online petition calling for it to be ditched has gathered some 55,000 signatures so far. Singapore has been been one of the most successful countries in tackling the pandemic. Despite a big outbreak among its foreign workers early on, local infection rates have for months been close to zero. #SongBoh
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MOH orders Concord International Hospital to suspend healthcare services due to ‘significant lapses’ Read more at https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/moh-orders-concord-international-hospital-suspend-healthcare-services-due-significant
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Man Tells His "God" I Luv U! Then #^!*^(%%%%$$ Kong Si Mi Lan #%@^^ Wei!!! Must Watch! https://singaporeuncensored.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/122062135_1045014119266165_5875368858673303813_n.mp4 Why cant embed leh???
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CNN]World's most expensive cities to live in https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnn.com/travel/amp/worlds-most-expensive-cities-2020/index.html https://www.eiu.com/n/campaigns/worldwide-cost-of-living-2020 #Songbo
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source https://www.worldometers.info/world-population/singapore-population/ Since 2000, Sg density were 5,756 p/km2 pop 4.028M 2005 Sg was at 6,094 P/km2 & pop 4.265M 2010 Sg was at 7,330 p/km2 pop 5.131M 2020 Now at 8,358 p/km2 pop 5.85M Density per km2 has increased 45% since yr 2000. Pop & density surged after 2005 when the Princess took over! Well Songboh!!!
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The long view on Ceca and other free trade agreements https://www.straitstimes.com/politics/the-long-view-on-ceca-and-other-free-trade-agreementshttps://www.straitstimes.com/politics/the-long-view-on-ceca-and-other-free-trade-agreements Published Jul 19, 2020, 5:00 am SGT https://www.straitstimes.com/sites/default/files/articles/2020/07/19/st_20200719_rvfta_5825916.jpg The fear of losing jobs to foreigners is valid, but it needs to be addressed with facts, balanced reasoning and empathy Leading up to this month's general election, one issue that won traction was that of the large presence here of foreign workers, particularly the PMETs (professionals, managers, executives and technicians) - who are thought to compete with locals for jobs. Last week's retrenchments at Resorts World Sentosa - and reports that Marina Bay Sands will likely follow suit - have added grist to that mill. An easy target of suspicion are the two dozen or so free trade agreements (FTAs) that Singapore has signed, particularly ones where services trade have been explicitly written into the deals, such as with India and Australia. As with millions around the world caught in this pandemic-accentuated economic crunch, Singaporeans are asking: What will become of me? Are the deals we agreed on to widen market access hurting my job prospects? It is a valid fear and one that needs to be addressed with facts, balanced reasoning and, above all, empathy. But to get there, you need to know why Singapore pursued FTAs in the first place and why they remain perhaps even more relevant today, when the multilateral trading system supported by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) is semi-paralysed and stressed by the insurgent behaviour of the United States. In December 1996, when Singapore hosted the inaugural Ministerial Conference of the WTO, the air was one of optimism about the future of free trade and globalisation. World merchandise trade had grown 10 per cent per annum from a mere US$50 billion in 1947 to US$5.6 trillion in 1995. As barriers to the free flow of trade and investments continued to fall, the expectation was that countries could capitalise more fully on their comparative strengths and look beyond national and regional frontiers. Opening the trade summit, then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong spoke of standing at the threshold of a golden age of global economic growth. Three years later, when trade ministers convened in Seattle for their third summit, the mood had darkened. Indeed, the Seattle conference failed to make progress on the next round of trade negotiations. It was against this background of stalling trade liberalisation and a shift from goods towards services trade that Singapore and like-minded nations thought of FTAs as a useful way to keep trade expanding, while they waited for the rest of the world to catch up. That led to the Agreement between New Zealand and Singapore on a Closer Economic Partnership (ANZSCEP), Singapore's first bilateral FTA. Its merits came into view instantly; after the FTA was implemented on Jan 1, 2001, Singapore's exports to New Zealand rose 54 per cent on-year in January and February. Today, there are 25 bilateral and plurilateral FTAs involving Singapore and more are under negotiation.
