TR Exclusive: PRC “scholars” thinking of breaking bonds even before arriving in Singapore
September 3rd, 2010 | 
Author: On 30 August, Lianhe Zaobao published a critical commentary asking the government to review its scholarship system which is being abused by some foreign students who broke their bonds upon completion of their studies without returning to Singapore. (read article here)
The exact number of foreign scholars who broke their bonds yearly is not revealed by the Ministry of Education which is sponsoring an increasing number of them to study in Singapore polytechnics and universities using taxpayers’ monies.
The PAP’s rationale for offering scholarships for foreign students is to “catch” the “talents” when they are young in the hope that they will settle down here and contribute to Singapore in the future.
However, it is pretty obvious that quite a number of these foreign students are more interested in using Singapore as a platform to immigrate to other countries like U.S., Canada and Australia.
Over at “Baidu Answers“, a popular Chinese internet portal, Chinese students asked how they can wriggle a free education out of Singapore without having to serve any bonds.
Attached below are two questions posed by Chinese students interested to further their studies in Singapore:
[Source: baidu.com]
Question:
I want to study in Singapore and take the “O” levels there before enrolling in a Singapore polytechnic to complete my studies while enjoying 80 percent financial assistance (for my studies from the Singapore government) at the same time. However, I will need to work in Singapore for at least three years if I accept the scholarship. Considering that I need to spend a year preparing for the “O” levels, three years in the university and three years working, I will have to spend seven years (in Singapore). The time is too long though I can return to China midway, I will be away for too long.
Is there any way for me not to work in Singapore for three years? Just take away that 3 years will be good enough. Can those who know help me? Please be detailed. Thanks so much. This is urgent!
Answer:
There are four ways:
Two ways which are not encouraged:
1. Pay up the bond upon completion of your studies and return home.
2. Break the bond and return home without paying the bond, never to return to Singapore again.
Two feasible ways:
1. Register a company in Singapore. It’s fine so long that the Singapore government thinks you are working in Singapore (though you may be physically elsewhere)
2. Work for a multi-national company in Singapore and request to be posted overseas.
[Source: baidu.com]
Question:
How much do I have to pay if I don’t want to serve the 6 years bond for the SM3 scholarship? If I don’t pay the penalty, can I still apply for other country’s graduate study, and come back to serve the 6 years?
Answer:
I think not, but you can run away and don’t return to SG. After all, they can’t go everywhere to look for you.
As we can see from the above, these two prospective PRC “scholars” have no intention of staying in Singapore upon graduation. Even before they arrive in Singapore, they are already making plans to further their careers elsewhere.
Why are we then sponsoring their studies at the expense of our local students? Are we suckers or what?
It is not surprising that some PRC students harbor this type of attitude with no sense of belonging to Singapore even after spending a number of years in Singapore.
Though Singapore is a predominantly Chinese society, the majority of them prefer to relocate to western countries like United States, United Kingdom and Canada.
In an authoritative poll conducted last year by Gallup, the top three immigration destinations for bright Chinese college students are United States, South Korea and France. Singapore was not even featured among them.
[Source: Gallup]
The Singapore government should conduct an in-depth study to analyze why PRC and other foreign students are not interested in staying put in Singapore, a number of whom are simply here to take advantage of our education system and citizenship as a stepping stone to greener pastures elsewhere.
A graduate from a Chinese university will find it more difficult to obtain a scholarship to study in the United States or a green card to work there as compared to a Singapore graduate or citizen.
Till today, the Ministry of Education has yet to reveal the actual number of bond-breakers among foreign scholars each year and the number who eventually become Singapore citizens.
What is the percentage of foreign scholars who leave Singapore upon completion of their studies or their bonds? Are we getting a reasonable return from our investment on them?
When Singapore scholars break their bonds, their names get splashed over the papers and they are shamed publicly. Why should foreign scholars who break bonds be spared the humiliation?
A place for a foreigner is a place deprived for a Singaporean. We should stop throwing money at ingrates who will never regard Singapore as their homes and spend more on nurturing and grooming deserving Singapore students.
It is irony that some Singapore students have to go overseas to further their tertiary education and their places taken up by foreign students who have no qualms turning their backs on us after they succeed in life.
The primary duty of the elected government of the day is to take care of the interests of Singaporeans first and not foreigners. Charity begins at home. It is about time we revamp the obsolete scholarship system which is flagrantly being abused by some foreign students to serve their selfish agenda.
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If we have credible opposition, these type of questions could be raised in parliament. The government need to produce the figures and how successful they can recover the bond from the run away students.
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the reasons why they dun wanna stay are exactly the same that drove singaporeans away.
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I don’t blame the Chinese PRCs.
After all, even Singaporean scholars always are tempted to break bonds and not return to Singapore. The Singapore scholars would run away from this country and the old man and his tyranny if only they can afford to pay off the bonds.
Look, who in their right mind would come back and be enslaved by the old man and live in an island without freedom, rather than live in true, first world democracies like the U.S., Canada and the U.K.? (I omit Australia because I don’t think Australia is a humane environment for Singaporeans due to Australia’s deep racism)
Unless the scholars are sure that they would become ministers like MBT and get millions for bullying Singapore citizens, I just don’t see why people would voluntarily come back unless they are forced to.
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Again, we Sinkies are reminded that we are spending our hard-earned taxpayer’s money on ungrateful foreigners. When will the govt wake up to the fact that foreigners will NEVER have the same kind of attachment to Singapore that only true-born Singaporeans have. This article can cause a severe anti-Chinese student backlash. And who would be surprised? The govt gives ur Chicken Soup stories of the few foreigners who stay in Singapore to serve the nation, while omitting the fact that most PRC are just opportunistic and selfish “dragon princes and princesses” who care only for themselves. STOP PAYING FOR PRC STUDENTS! China dog-eaters can go rot in hell for all I care.
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no doubt this policy has me scratching my head. having gone through my entire education in Singapore from kindergarten to university, i have met so many PRCs who no longer stays in Singapore after getting free education or subsidized tuition grant. They don’t mix with us locals too. Most have their own friends from PRC. Not all of them are talented. Some are really lazy and not very bright. So why aren’t we screening them and make them do compulsory NS!!
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Leeches..
As taxpayers, do we have a right to refuse this policy?
Oh I forget, the garment is daft to all opinions.
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really fcuked them prc students, the govt should ask the cheena govt. to ensure that if these students escape bk to cheena, they should be repatriated back to spore to be caned!
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Why would our gahmen bother to know how many of these foreign students actually break their bonds; how many are ingrates or are our investment on them worth it?
Remember! It’s NOT THEIR MONEY that they’re using. When the money is not theirs, of coz just ‘tikam-tikam’ try their luck, where’s the problem?????
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this is why cheena wont be a great country – it’ll filled with scum bags like these who only want a free ride. they are worse than their fellow country women working in geylang!
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Quote: The primary duty of the elected government of the day is to take care of the interests of Singaporeans first and not foreigners. Charity begins at home.
The Govt must realize sooner or later that the above statement summarizes the people’s sentiments.
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PRC creams are too smart. They know what is life under the Mao communism. After studying in Singapore for sometimes, they would know that Singapore govt is not better than their Mao communist govt. Everything in Singapore is being controlled by the imperialistic familee. So why shd they jump from the frying pan to the fire.
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You do have to admit their both street-smart & book smart. In other words as what the Chinese Hokkien say “Kan” meaning cunning.
Unfortunately, Garment expect them to be “Kan” but at the same time loyal & grateful to this country ( actually loyal to them & their party ) with the responsibility to carry out the bond’s obligations. It will be a mission impossible.
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The PRC person shld go Geylang and find a sugar daddy and ask for sponsorship if female. If male, the PRC and go to a nightclub and become a gigolo!!!If all else fails, they can visit the old fart personally to appeal as he considers them “hard driving” which he finds very appealing.
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nah bei chee bye. I knew about this shit a long time ago from my friends in NTU and NUS. Fucking govt is still allowing this crap to creep in. While the local graduates slog their socks off to repay the loan, these fucking china chee bye kias come here and enjoy free education with allowance. Kan ni na beh chao chee bye you fucking Lees.
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i thought govt always like to quote statistic to support their claims… so where are the stats for this issue? don’t tell me can’t reveal, it is tax payers’ money. do we have a right to know it? so many civil servants working under MOE, sure there are some numbers to share! or is the stats so bad that they don’t dare to reveal? hmm… we can only guess as of now.
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As usual, it’s the average joe Singaporean Taxpayer who suffers from the PAP’s halfcocked policies, while everyone else gets a free-ride and a good laugh at our expense.
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sad… i’d rather local singporeans got the scholarship and breaking it than foreigners (the money comes from sinagporean taxpayers). Theres already so many of our local children not able to get a seat in the universities and yet we are offering a seat plus scholarship to foreigners. To attract foreign talent? does it mean that there is no talent in singapore? come on, this must be a joke…
i think our those on top, very high up….is looking too far and forgot the important issues just ahead of them.
This reminds me of teh movie “black hawk down”. the commander onboard the helicopter giving instrutions to the convoy giving convoy commander mcknight instructions where to go and what mcknight replies something like that “i’m taking heavy fires”, “all i can see is only road blocks after road blocks”… obviously the commander is too high up and not on the ground, he can’t see and xperience what exactly is going on on the ground….
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Before foreign leeches are taking advantage of Singapore education, the scholarship system has long been abused by the elites of Singapore. Families that could easily afford overseas education used their connections to get scholarships for their kids, and it comes a trophy to show off at gatherings. 90% of scholarship recipients can afford overseas education, and 25% are really fucking rich.
In China itself, this system was abolished long ago… because they knew it was abused.
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“chi li pa wai” – sg gov
“bites the hand that feeds” – prc scholars
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What to do? We are CARROT HEAD lor!
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Why is our opposition not asking these questions in parliament.?
No wonder the voters have no confidence in the oppositions, they seem like the rest of miw, collecting pay and no work.
Would you want to pay someone who does not work.
The gov pays all foreign students money to stay and study, not (counting the school fees, and yet they find nothing great here, what kind of losers are we) and masters research students gets an allowance of 1.5k to 3k, depends on what research they do.It will be better to import student from timor dilly and south pacific islanders than chinese malaysians or chinese from mainland or indians from india or filipinos.
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@My Name:
September 3, 2010 at 8:54 am
“i thought govt always like to quote statistic to support their claims… so where are the stats for this issue? don’t tell me can’t reveal, it is tax payers’ money.”
Sure of course can release , after tweak the figures ….
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Y even when own prc buy thing they will say: MADE IN CHINA 的!!我不要!!yet when their own ppl reject their own goods gamen uses lotsa $$ to invest in their studies.arent prc made in china??mayb our gamen mentality is just like them:MADE IN SINGAPORE 的!我不帮!!tat y they rather invest in their studies and not our studies
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that david guy, who committed suicide also on free scholarhip, no need ns/reservists, he jumped, how much tax money we lost?
sg gomen don’t take care of homeless, poor sg, but throw money at p rubbish, f trash, then we do ns/reservist, slaves for what? who? n now bribe $9k con our young people to suffer ns/reservist.
we love our contry, but this contry run by stupid fools.
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most really talent chinese in china would want to be in US, europe where they really know what talent is all about
singapore is not a place to bleed talent or harness talent
singapore is just like any other chinese dictators their homeland already has
they come here only singapore PAP provide them FREE education and money
and if they cannot enter the western world
they will used singapore as a hotel or springboard or a midway point to the west.
they aint interested in singapore
that why chinese in china are destine to US, UK, Europe, Australia and not singapore.
just like any other casino game where PAP place a losing bet
and lost our money and hide the account book
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Apologies, have to write in chinese cos me england not powderful!
孔子曰：“鸟择木，无木择鸟”， 说白了，就是“良禽择木而栖”。
中国的顶尖人才，当然是留在国内，有一小部分会流失到欧美。
新加坡要争取人才，当然是要把这小岛变成一块好木。那何为“良木”呢？行动党政府的所为良木，就是一个舒适安全的生活环境，可以安居乐业。我不否认以上条件是吸收人才的基本硬件。但是它足以留住“人才”吗？
何为人才？那是“有脑”的人。其实，要找生活舒适的地方不难，有脑的人，最重要的“择木”条件当然是一个能够让他们自由发挥“脑力” 的“良木”。
大家需要知道在这地球村，真正难求的是一个让人的思想能够自由发挥的地方。生活舒适的地方，还是多的是的。
当这些学子到了欧美社会，就好象赤兔马遇着了伯乐，又怎么会回头呢？
新加坡要吸收真正的人才，只有真正的广开言路，政治开放。但行动党能做到吗？哈哈，那是政治自杀！
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singaporeans all very talented; but the gomen thinks they r daft; our students go overseas usually top their course, even those from ‘normal’ stream.
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there are only 2 types of PRC females in singapore, professional prostitutes and part-time prostitutes
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//Fact is Fact:
September 3, 2010 at 7:04 am
As taxpayers, do we have a right to refuse this policy?
Oh I forget, the garment is daft to all opinions.//
of course, we have !! we have the right to do most things as long as it is criminal in nature !! however, there are avenues which supposedly should be there for us to do / show it are blocked – e.g street protests & demostrations – hence giving the impression that not too many people are objecting to the policy.
individual views in the form of written letters – if someone goes through the trouble in writing thinking it is going to make any difference – to the right parties may be ‘hiijacked’ not giving the necessary consolidation it needs and swept aside from public view if they are not made visible.
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the govt is a so-called watch-dogs which bark at their own masters and lick the feet of ‘STRANGERS’?
Whenever,there is costs/burden to shoulder,it’s TAX the Singaporeans;
when there is b;ame and finger-pointing,it’s singaporeans frist.
But,where ther eis accolades,’LOOK,HOW WE PLANNED AHEAD,WE DESERVE EVERY CENTS YOU PAID US’?
AND,NOW,THERE ARE NO LOCAL TALENTS,SO,WE NEED TO IMPORT FOREIGN ONES.
HEY!do we keep dogs so that they BARK at us?
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correction
of course, we have !! we have the right to do most things as long as it is NOT criminal in nature !!
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There were quite a number of PRCs in NUS medical faculty who absconded without fulfilling a single day of their bond. I am certain there are many others.
MOE must come clean on this issue. We have paid so much for these FTs.
Now we must pay $60 billion to build an MRT system to cater to a larger population. FTs are expensive! The elite use our money to pay for these FTs while they pay the FTs peanuts so that their profits are enlarged. The end of the story we lose our jobs or our salary is reduced and our tax is used to build infrastructure to cater to the FTs.
There is nothing good from cheap labour. It is like a drug to the elites. We have to sto pthem and give them some ‘bitter medicine’ by voting out the PAPies and their frivolous economic policies.
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This Ah Tiong says SM3 scholarship not geberous enough: http://sm3group5.blogspot.com/2009/04/why-should-sm3-scholarship-need-to.html Maybe he should work as a gigolo on that Balmoral Plaza club.
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just a few more about how PRC feels of singapore.
Courtesy from Baidu
我是上海的，几年前我也有同样的经历，很是徘徊，后来在很多亲朋好友的分析下，觉得那里真的实在太小，就仅仅几百万人而一半的人还不是土生土长的本地人，就觉得那种地方前景模糊，何况老总理也那么老了，新总理嘛又不怎么样，连他们自己人民都不乐观！
我毕业后就选择回国了，我另一位同学就选择留下来拿国籍，，
现在我在上海赚的工资虽然比我那留了下来的同学底，不过因为国内的生活水平便宜得多，所以我能存的钱就比她多，我上海房子车子都买了，我同学还在租屋出门坐公交，虽然她很节俭不过在那里还是买不起房子和车子！
在工作环境我受很多人仰慕和尊敬，因为我有的是一张国外留学回来的文凭，在国内很吃香，我同学拿的是当地的文凭，在当地只是一张本地文凭（不吃香，很多人都有）！
除了我认为我们本来就应该多多少少的为祖国贡献力量，为祖国发展的道路打下更好的基础，给我们的下一代制造更完美的中国大陆！
在那里帮人家打好基础，追跟到底那里还是属于别人的，何必呢！
护照好用又怎样，我同学一年里又会出国旅行几次呢！
现在那里的护照去美国都要签证了！
手老实话，不要动不动就先看不起自己的国籍和护照，要对自己有信心，老外才会认可我们，我今年五月第一次要去美国出差，美国签证一给就给了10年多次往返，我相信中国护照在不久的将来也会是很好用的，强大了就不怕老外不承认我们的存在和肯定！！
凭我的经历，中国的月亮也很“圆”，我很开心我选择了回国！
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很支持楼上的说法阿，我也是上海的，现在虽然还在读书，但是已经看到了许多国人在新的辛酸和无奈，其实妈妈你可以和小孩说拿个pr，但是不改变国籍，想回国住，想在新加坡工作都是很可以，不受限制，我觉得还是回国的好，在这里就算你的英语再好（没个3，5年不可能有多好），还是不能很轻易的融入那个社会，不管怎么说，国内人多好办事，一呼百应，在这里是叫天天不灵叫地地不应，而且在这里的生活水平那么高，生活是挺辛苦的，就像楼上说的，地方不同，你手里拿的那张文凭的价值就不同，当然你享受的生活就更不同，还有，我有个新加坡的亲戚，她就是移民过来的，她说在新加坡宁愿死也不要病，看病都是拿自己的什么基金的，用完就么拉，就要自己全额，所以她还在考虑移到澳洲，其实最主要是要看你女儿的想法，当女儿不确定的时候妈妈要拿主意，但是妈妈也不确定的时候还是要看女儿，因为不管什么选择，是她自己的选择就算以后出现什么挫折，她都不能责怪别人，要让她学会长大，学会担当。哦，忘了说，你说你女儿是拿政府奖学金，你确定是政府，不是学校？如果是政府的话她就要在新工作3年，你是知道的吧，这3年正好是一个过渡期和观察期，你和女儿都可以从中观察这个国家是否适合你女儿移民。还想小小地说一句，感觉你女儿并不是说完全的思想老旧，什么背叛国家一类的，看你女儿的年龄，不想是会有这种想法的样子，我感觉她应该在新不是很开心，所以会有这一说法来说服你甚至是她自己不要移民。
Truly Singapore,
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PAP’s LKY already said the “throw money at foreigners” policy is a success if only 3 out of 10 foreign students stay. So even when so many foreign students ran away, this policy is considered a success by PAP!
In contrast, Singapore students are hounded for failing to repay their study loans obtained from their own parents’ CPF.
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This is nothing.
I have heard worst.
they can study in NTU after which without increase the bond lenght.
Then they use the same techniques.
Look at our own students… things are so bad that they had to default from CPF loans and make their parents suffer.
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WTF, so I have to pay for my children’s education in my own country and indirectly helping to pay for these prc bastards education here? WTF.
LHL, PLEASE CALL FOR THE ELECTION NOW. KNNBCCB.
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@whyshouldipay
you very fierce ley.but i agree with you 100%!
(except the vulgarities) hehe..
donno why we can’t be like brunei/UAE.
citizens enjoy,foreigners suffer
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I am so sad after reading this. My country has became the laughing stock of others. We are like a toilet bowl, Ah Tiong just come to us, shit at us, our government give them high class toilet paper, give them air con, warm toilet seats, hoping that they would sit longer at us, but Ah Tiong just come here lao sai, clean backside and fuck off without flushing, leaving us dirty and without toilet paper. Why have we come to this stage? Why does our country get treated by Ah Tiong like this? Ah Tiong are discussing on their forums on how to exploit us, Ah Tiong who has benefited from our system are going back to teach their comrades how they could do the same. Most of the Ah Tiong i know don’t have intension to stay in Sinkiepore for long. PAP, please give me back my country.
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养虎为患. Having too much PRC to stay in SG might not be a good thing either. They might vote for our fellow PAP for now. But once they feel that they are the majority of SG population, they might stand up and challenge our government. With the sheer numbers and their nationalism mentality, PAP will lose their stronghold in coming years. Singapore will turn Chinapore, think about it.
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Great to know my income tax is going to such a bloody worthy cause!!!
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This is called ’serve you right’ to the PAP government. Feed the Chinese dogs and in the end, the Chinese dogs bark back and even bite at you. lol You can’t even trust your own local Singaporean citizen, how do you expect the PRC dogs to be a loyal good dog to you? Sigh…… government PAP ah…. next year you surely lose the General Election for sure =D I also will vote for SDP =D this PAP government is useless.
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YOG was a failure and colossal waste of money. Did PAP admit its mistake? No, instead it says they gained “intangible benefits” that cannot be calculated.
Hence even if everyone of these foreign students break bond and escaped without paying a single cent, PAP will congratulate itself for the “intangible benefits” of providing free education to foreigners.
Meanwhile, Singaporean students denied a place in our own universities, will need to empty their parents’ savings or take a big bank loan to study overseas.
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>90% foreign talents… millions spent on phd scholarships, how many will stay? no need bond…
http://www.nus.edu.sg
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any prcs/ foreigners can EASILY get this, play for 3 years, no need to graduate and go back home to do bizness…
http://www.nus.edu.sg/admissions/graduate-studies/scholarships-nrs.php
$2.5k pm, abt 100k per students (for min 3 years)… in engineering school, just 1 dept there are 80 phd students (>90% FT), total cost, by university, moe, taxpayers – SGD$8,000,000 just for 1 dept on phd program… what is the output? what is the constribution to the economy?
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government is throwing money at prcs/foreigners to beg them to come… No need to account for the output to Singaporeans… Lucky people.
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It is appalling the amount of taxpayers money and efforts the PAP is putting in to attract foreigners for free lunch in Singapore.
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just look at our ntu and nus, how many cheena students
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Soon, Singapore will become Chinapore. lol very soon. takchekkia, the government dote sayang the PRC Chinese dogs only mah…. where got care about singaporean …… that’s why the next election you all singaporean must know who to vote and what to do. Don’t play play ah.. know who your enemy is ah…..
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Dont be a moron…Foreigners get scholarship for Phd without bond in almost all countires (Europe, US, SG)…most of you capable ones are simply not interested in pursuing phd or masters…even if you are, probably with a little financial backing, you are interested in studying abroad, and then living abroad…every country has a small fraction of talented lot…the smartest people from China, India and Singapore too go to Europe and US…
the ones who are left want easy lives with jobs after undergraduate degree…and to put it bluntly, they are not smart enough to be given graduate scholarships…the criterion for research scholarship is potential to do research and not citizenship…this is true in every country…
most graduate students in US and Europe are also foreigners…bcus locals want jobs after undergraduate since they have used all their brains in 4 yrs of hardship…
stop blaming foreigners for your lack of talent and ambition…you are whining about scholarships here…how many of you have pursued Graduate Studies ?? how many of you would get scholarships at a foreign universities…u r stuck with singapore and thus want protection in jobs, univs, scholarships, hdb, mrt, buses…
u dont deserve it any more than a talented foreigner…screw your passports…
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@ whyshouldipay:
September 3, 2010 at 11:23 am
” WTF, so I have to pay for my children’s education in my own country and indirectly helping to pay for these prc bastards education here? WTF. ”
Not only that, you are also obligated to give them your job.
Other obligations includes if they run off or in the event of other screw ups ( e.g. break bonds ), all expenses will be bore by you share among other local taxpayers.
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even UAE is trying to create world class universities…but will people go there to study…no, bcus people are biased towards the west..whats the shame in admitting the Singapore is simply not the top choice of immigrants…
and if a country is not a top choice, it is hard to retain…people come n go…but when it comes to US, people go n live…its a fact and blaming PAP for this is no answer…
PAP is rite…if 3 out of 10 stay back in Singapore, its a good policy…bcus otherwise u will have 0 out of 10 and the rest will go elsewhere…
face it…Singapore is not the best choice for immigrants…and you guys are not as talented as you think you are…the immigrants you get in NUS/NTU are not worldclass but they are at least above average and probably, as good as 80-90% of you…
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That’s why I keep saying the pap’s “talent” is self-proclaimed, not recognized by the singaporeans..
How talented can they be if their policies are easily taken advantaged off, by citizens of 3rd world countries..
pap always say no free meals, but this doesn’t apply to them and foreigners..
WHEN IS THE GE? I CAN”T WAIT TO VOTE..
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Fact or Fiction:
yes you shd pay for talented immigrants’ education…bcus thats good for Singapore though its not necessarily good for you, since you are narrow minded…
again, what if some day your kids go abroad…would you not want them to get financial aid and opportunities similar to locals…maybe not bcus u know ur kids are not smart and they are bound to get stuck with Polys and ITEs and getting world class education is beyond their capabilities…
every country gives scholarship to good foreign students…bcus every country wants talented immigrants…and yes, talent is as important as being born in a developed country…in fact, in the long run Talent wins over Local Citizens in a Globalized world…u will have to learn to handle the turth..
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The primary duty of the elected government of the day is to take care of the interests of Singaporeans first and not foreigners. Charity begins at home.
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@morons: September 3, 2010 at 1:27 pm
Dont be a moron… morons, so do you have a phd?
Did your research resulted in cures for cancer? AIDS?
Did you predicted the financial meltdown?
What did you invent?
Can you cook better than a lowly educated chef?
You may be exam smart, but that doesn’t mean you have the quality to do research..
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AKAN DATANG MATI !!!
Dear Singaporeans…let me remind again , again and again …if we not not have enough opposition MPs in Parliament to speak for the people like you and me, our country will, or rather we would died very terribly, and the day is just coming soon.
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@morons: September 3, 2010 at 1:38 pm
>>”yes you shd pay for talented immigrants’ education…bcus thats good for Singapore though its not necessarily good for you, since you are narrow minded…”
Oh yeah, like they run road and then go back home or somewhere else and compete with singapore after completing their educations.. AND THAT IS GOOD FOR SINGAPORE, YOU ARE TRUELY A MORON..
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Dont blame these students. It is not because they are PRC or any other nation, you are talking about students on scholarships so they cannot be too dumb.
Students with brains will use their brains, so if they are able to find ways to beat systems created by our overpaid silly leaders it just goes to show how incapable our leaders are.
The total blame should rest with MOE not these students.
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WHEN IS THE ELECTION ? WHEN IS THE ELECTION ? TELL ME NOW….FUCKER PAP.
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Smart PRC students Vs Dumb MOE leaders, no prize for guessing who are the winners.
Sadly its not these silly leaders who have lost but the Singapore taxpayers and those equally silly voters who voted for these leaders in the first place.
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hey you morons, you think singaporeans are all morons?
8 million just for one dept, and what has that dept produced?
No problems with getting talented foreigners, but how many of these talented foreigners are playing with the gov money? what is the output from 8 million of tax payers money?
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To PAP:
Foreigners came to Singapore not just because they like the skyhigh scrappers or clean environment. They came because our government is weak, can bully its citizen while protecting foreigner. They believed, as foreigners, PAP can be manipulated for their loophole polices without fearing them since foreigners can run road easily while citizen can’t. TheY certainly believe PAP is flawed in many areas for the sake of GDP in exchange Singapore unguarded door, that gave foreigners lots of courage and advantages to exploit our countries by breaking bonds or laws if given the slightest opportunity to do so and still able to walk free in our land for the same opportunity. To conclude, foreigners have nothing to lose or fear under PAP weak leadership.
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this started from the mid-90s… just how much taxpapyers’ money has been wasted!!!
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Just vote them out. >_> They are going from bad to worse.
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takchekkia:
since you do not know anything about Research, let me point out to you…phd students are not necessarily required to produce wealth so that you can move into a condo and buy a car and have vacations in Bali…they generate some new knowledge and build expertize…in that way they contribute to NUS…that is why there is no bond for Phd…if there was, most of them wont come to SG and your universities will remain empty…and ya, some of them have led to small startups, and people work in singapore in many places…however, there is no global icon of a company yet…
now let me ask you…what have you or your 4 million population achieved…a rat race for 4 or 5Cs…a race to enter Banking n Finance…atleast these students worked hard for a few years…and after that if they reap benefits , whats wrong…
if u had the calibre to study at Oxford, would u leave…if u had a 100k job in US, would u come back to singapore…
u are complaining bcus u r not good enough…what stopped u from getting a scholarship abroad…or even at NUS/NTU…stop bitching about scholarships to foreigners…and stop whining that some of them leave singapore…
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//Foreigners get scholarship for Phd without bond in almost all countires (Europe, US, SG)…//
what phd ? out-of-the-world research crystallizing in applied knowledge where the capitalized benefits go to the country or going to themselves ? who the f care if it is scholarship from private benefactors ?
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@morons
It is because of PAP morons like you who would give freebies to every tom, dick and harry, except its own citizens that made Singapore and Singaporeans look stupid and naive.
Next you will be telling us about the “intangible benefits” of blowing these money on scam foreign students.
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It simply the result of Singapore open legs policy to foreigners
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Actually I don’t understand. Why are u guys bashing PRCs only? There are equal number of foreign students from India, Indonesia, Malaysia who get PAP scholarship to study in NUS and NTU!
Especially indians, they are swarming the whole of the S’pore IT and banking industry, so much so that my friend told me she worked in the IT dept of American MNC as manager, but out of 40 IT staff, only 2 are Singaporeans! Sad hor, but its the truth, cos the head of IT is an Americanised Indian from India. He only awards bids to IT vendors from India, saying that they are cheap and good-value-for-money. Good value my foot! End up we locals have to work late every night to correct their crappy work, cos they always promise this and that, but never deliver at all! My user (local) once said to me, that she prefered talking to me bcos I am true blue Sporean and she trusts that I will deliver my promise. She said the indian programmers and consultants from india cannot be trusted. NATO – no action talk only.
I have interviewed so many Indian candidates and I can tell you, their CV look fantastic, but most often than not, its all BS and their certs are all fake. One of them told me, he can get his so-called Oracle professional certification (oracle is one of the biggest software co in the world) by reading the ten-year-series available and taking the exam in India. Then they come SG to be IT consultant. Con and insult poor singaporeans!
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“If we have credible opposition”?
So Now, it’s the oppositions fault?
No.
It’s not.
It’s the governments fault.
The very same government voted in by the people is failing them.
I say vote each and every one of them out.
No more second chance.
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@Terence
stop this citizen, made Singapore, sweated for the country crap…now that you govt is asking you to sweat a bit in a crowded MRT, all of you are whining…so please, stop this “taking pains for singapore” nonsense…citizens in many countries have a worse deal and they complain less that you imbeciles…
is anyone stopping you from applying for scholarships at NUS/NTU…if your not good enough,
then is it the foreigners fault…given a choice, all of you want to get univ education and
sit and work as a white collar manager in a MNC…but you cant compete with foreignerers…
who wants protection from the govt…its always the weak n untalented…you cannot make it
on your own, so ask the govt to help with everything…
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bulllshit, when you govt hires poor laborers from india, bangladesh, china to build your mrts , roads just to save money, its all okay…when the govt saves your money by hiring cheap labor and maid, its all okay…
but when the govt spends a bit to attract talent and boost its international image, you want to account for pennies n dollars…
you guys have taken advantage of poor people for a long long time…and if some of them get the benefits, how badly its hurting you…
this TR is full of mediocre, materialistic, imbecile Morons…
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If you dont want Foreign students, maybe you shd go and build your own MRTs and Roads and Babysit your kids…Fact is — You guys are no better than someone born in a poorer nation…For a long long time, you have cashed in life not bcus you were better or more talented, but bcus u got lucky…now, the world is becoming global so some people from india/china are rising and some people from richer nations are sinking…i think the world is becoming a FAIRER place to live…ofcoz, the ones who are sinking are crying …serves u rite
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“they generate some new knowledge and build expertize…in that way they contribute to NUS…that is why there is no bond for Phd…”
be specific lah. applied knowledge where clearly attributable benefits go to the country ? or something already known in the public domain (of some professional fraternity) but repackaged to keep some privileged group of so-called experts happy and gainfully employed.
you may not be a rocket scientist (phd) but you do know whether a rocket flies or not. have you noticed nowadays fresh graduates who have barely worked already have name as consultant in their name card.
“now let me ask you…what have you or your 4 million population achieved…a rat race for 4 or 5Cs…a race to enter Banking n Finance…atleast these students worked hard for a few years…and after that if they reap benefits , whats wrong…”
not wrong as long as the money go to our own people. what have 4 million population, maybe they are paying in taxation to finance those phds and you for the possibility of talking back. why should they be financing for them to reap benefits and not themselves.
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I hope Grandpa Lee and his Pinkie son LHL are reading this. They thought they super-smart, but they don’t know the PRC people even ultra-super-smartter than them.
I think these PRC people just used SG as a stepping stone only. Ultimately their loyalty will still be with their original motherland.
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To morons:
There’s no point in talking to the morons here. The govt knows fully well that the locals are generally not a capable lot, which is why they bend over backwards to attract the best brains from far and near. But despite their best efforts the best brains are all headed to the US. So only 3rd or 4th grade talents reach here, but even they are 100 times better than most locals, who are generally mediocre. The few who have brains are either handpicked by the govt or head overseas. The rest come here every day to whine.
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so let’s see who are the suckers now!!! those people up there think they are attracting real talents. ;>
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@morons and sensiblePR
What are you waiting for? Get out of Singapore into the global world and be happy. We will also be happy without you people around. Win-win situation. So what are you waiting for? Waiting for us to get our brooms out?
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A friend of mine completed graduation and promptly went overseas for higher studies without informing anyone or seeking permission. After his masters he came back to Singapore, fully expecting to be stopped at the airport, questioned and hauled up before the relevant authorities (he was even ready to be deported). Surprise, surprise! Nothing of that sort ever happened. He coolly returned to Singapore, found a job and continues to live and work here. Moral of story: Foreign students NEED NOT be afraid of leaving Singapore after education. They can always return a few years later…they will only be welcomed. PRC students may even get red carpet welcome.
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sensiblePR: September 3, 2010 at 5:25 pm^The govt knows fully well that the locals are generally not a capable lot, which is why they bend over backwards to attract the best brains from far and near.^
funny hoh. countries where ppl not subject to the same rules like what we are subject to can produce capable lot hoh. bend over backwards loh ? ya loh ? i still don’t see garment bending backwards by allowing opposition to gain some inroads – when it comes to their own ability in not being able to nurture own locals totally but having to rely on imports.
wow, the problem with monkeys like you that is y not u give an interview with the mainstream media and say it out loud there.
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Agree with morons and sensiblePR. This site is for whiners.
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PAP Sucks:
September 3, 2010 at 6:38 am
“I omit Australia because I don’t think Australia is a humane environment for Singaporeans due to Australia’s deep racism”
G’day mate! A very odd comment. There are Singaporeans of various ethnic backgrounds that have settled happily in Australia. We are happy here and glad to have the opportunity to leave Lee’s paradise. Cheers!
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@Terence
Are you nuts? Why would I want to leave Singapore? It’s a wonderful place. I love it here.
“Get out of Singapore into the global world and be happy.”
No way. I am so used to living here. I am truly happy here.
“We will also be happy without you people around. Win-win situation.”
Oh, sorry about that. Cannot leave just to make you happy lah. Because I won’t be happy. Besides, govt is happy with me. Win-win for me and govt. Sorry about you.
“So what are you waiting for? Waiting for us to get our brooms out?”
Come on, that’s not about to happen, is it?
I’m here for the long haul buddy, god willing.
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@u do not sound sensible at all:
The problem with people like you and most Singaporeans is that you are afraid to venture out. If you really had the talent and spunk you would have either made it to university here or headed to Oz, US, UK or somewhere in Europe. Stop complaining. Don’t expect the govt to do anything for you. Your development and progress will then begin.
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If local singaporeans break bond, kena splash all over shitty times and kena label as quitters. But hundreds and thousands of FT students break bond, PAP thiam thiam keep quiet.
I hope opposition can challenge them in parliament about the number of foreign students who abscond and say bye every year without serving bond. And how come shitty times never report about it?
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@sensiblePR
Don’t talk as if u know alot, asshole. Did u do NS???If not, please shut the fxxx up.
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JUst an example FT talking to us right now fierce man ….there will be more argument to be created ……..thank to my lord !
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@sensiblePR we have different culture and resources we will manage our family problem do not teach the father how to fxxx the mother !
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The above postings is a fake! The Chinese language used and the sentence structure is definitely not from a PRC Chinese.
TR, you up to something fishy???
Mod’s note:
Please click on the links and go to Baidu.com. There are similiar postings there as well.
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I am sure any Singaporean who has academic ability that is equivalent or anywhere close to that of the foreign talents (not limited to PRCs -Vietnamese, Indians, Malaysians etc) will definitely be given access to such scholarships and more. Singapore is merely adhering to its policy of meritocracy.
With regards to bond-breaking, some (note not all) rational thinking Singaporeans will also have no qualms about breaking their bonds in view of their own interests. It is about human nature. Instead of using the intangible “moral card” to lamblast individuals for “seeking greener pastures”, a more logical alternative is to work at making the grass at our own side more attractive.
In the end, blame the game not the player.
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This had happened for decade when was a student in my university day. Seriously cant accept why foreigners are given scholarship while local student needs to pay!!!!! Are they really so \”talent\”? Scratching my head. Well, has never regret in my voting decision since i am eligible for voting except for giving it a support for LHL. Sigh!!!!!!!!!!!
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In the first place, why offer bonds to PRCs or foreign students…? Can’t we just offer them to local students…? Do we really need all these “foreign talents”…? Many of our own Singaporean already cannot afford tertiary education with all the rising cost and fees…Shouldn’t we be considering them first…? If not, then what is the point of building more and more primary schools and secondary schools if our own born and bred here youngsters cannot get into a local uni here…
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@Goh
You retarded or what? Go to baidu.com and search for such postings yourself. There are tons of them.
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@patriot
No point arguing with sensiblePR. Nothing we can do except suck thumb.
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Don’t be so narrow minded.
These bond-breaking happen in every country everywhere including USA,
Australia…etc. Just somebody changed his/her mind.
It only show you are very poor of knowledge/sight if you think this is something very big strange/big. Something to be surprise of.
We need to think and see globally. Not just in an island.
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No morals, cheap, money minded trash. No wonder PRCs make such good prostitutes.
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@sensiblePR
Obviously you are happy here, you leech. Leeches do not leave the host on its own. They will continue to suck blood even when they are full. We need to pluck out leeches like you and flush down the toilet.
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No point arguing with pr. They have no voting rights!
Just take action to vote out pap!
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@ sensiblePR:
September 3, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Have U figure out why PRC shits are despised whereever they go? It is in their culture and behaviour. It is not just the average joes or janes that see through your bags of dirts. Even global business.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ae64093e-b677-11df-86ca-00144feabdc0.html
Look at how Rio Tinto screwed up Chinalco? and Oxiana screwed up MinMetals? How come when Korean, Japanese or even Thai investors buying big into Australia, no problem. PRC HAS GOT A REPUTATION PROBLEM IN BUSINESS AND IN RELATIONSHIP.
And when they want to buy foreign business abroad in Canada or USA, foreign governments will step in and stop it or else arm-twist Chinese buyers. Only in backward and desperate Africa, they take your money. How come? CHINESE CAN’T BE TRUSTED!
THINKING OF GOING GLOBAL? Nobody wants you except this dumbest of dumb country.
Singaporeans can go anywhere in the world and be welcomed. Can PRCs do the same – with countless caught in immigration rorts everywhere?
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sensiblePR:
September 3, 2010 at 7:00 pm
@u do not sound sensible at all:
Stop complaining. Don’t expect the govt to do anything for you. Your development and progress will then begin.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
so,tell me,why then should we pay the ministers?
to sit around looking pretty with a couple of millions each year?
or better still,throw away taxpayers; money to foreigners instead of our own people?
yes.i would expect this govt to do things for me,on the contrary!
you are getting more and more ‘IN’sensiblePR.
And,to think my govt calls you a talent?
and,worse,you deceive yourself thinking you are one?!
for once,MM LEE is RIGHT,the singaporean govt is ‘daft’.
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@ @ sensiblePR:
September 3, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Even the Taiwanese and Hongkies treated you all like shits in your motherland, don’t they? Hongkies got mistress village just across the border. Taiwanese got mistress village in Xiamen and in Hangzhou and their business treat Chinese employees like dogs. Why? Because that is how you treat your own kind. How many commit suicide at the workplace dorm recently in Shenzhen? You never heard of melanie-tainted milk for babies and dead babies tossed into the river instead of a dignified burial? You never heard of stupid shits of your kind eating foetus in soup for “sexual” aphrodisiac – SICK MINDS!!
It is all in the global economic news, RIGHT? And you see that inside China as a visitor as well in rural areas – their cops beat up old ladies with baton for “illegal” hawking. I guess if it was your mother on the receiving end of those wooden baton, you will be talking differently here, don’t you of your “superior” culture?
PIECE OF THICK SHIT! Grow up, the rest is not as sickly as your sick mind and soul and debased culture.
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Hi Moron n sensiblePR:
I agree with your postings n comments. If you are talented especially in biomed research, you will be wanted and a global PR and Singapore will most likely to be your home. You will want to reside in America / Europe where the opportunities are much much better. Myself is S’pore youngest Prin.Scientist in the US.
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Sorry typo error.
Singapore will most likely NOT be your home.
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@ sensiblePR:
September 3, 2010 at 7:00 pm
in case you think I make up stories of your culture quirks and snake mindsets. Here is some proof for your reading pleasures to entertain readers of TR as well
“In an unusually emotional outburst for Chinese television, he said: “These infants never had a chance to walk on this earth and that is already their tragedy. But shouldn’t you then dispose of them properly instead of just tossing them out? These people have the hearts of dogs. They are hateful and contemptible.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/dead-babies-found-in-river-in-eastern-china/story-e6frg6so-1225847791020
food corruption
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/a-top-chinese-food-and-drug-safety-official-is-the-subject-of-a-corruption-probe/story-e6frg6so-1225879556000
renting white foreigner to deceive their own kind
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/BUSINESS/06/29/china.rent.white.people/index.html?hpt=C2&fbid=Cd_cLKKgd2D
suicide at Foxconn
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/another-suicide-bid-at-apple-factory-20100528-wi4i.html
I don’t need to add to this list. Plenty on the internet which you must know of PRC’s unique culture and behaviour whereever they go.
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@moron
Stop trying to be a smart alec, Moron. This article simply highlights an incident which our citizens perceived as unfair. Do you think such kind of selfish act can any votes in the court of public opinions?
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You don’t hear GCT telling these leeches quiters right?
I love TR.
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So many issues are affecting native Singaporeans in many many ways.
What has Chiam See Tong and Low Thia Khiang has been doing all these years in parliament?
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Those who can’t make it to first world countries like US, Canada and France have no choice but to seek “comparable” ground elsewhere right. And they have nothing to lose to come to singapore since it’s FOC by PAP what. These FT still envy their friends who made it to US, Canada and would one day want to leave Singapore for First World. That’s always their intention in the first place. Singapore is just too small to contain their heart. Their heart always seek for greener pastures esp countries with First World Democracy. Too bad, Singapore not a democractic country; everything is controlled by Familee!
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Thanks TR, another informative article.
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@YoungScientist
You are Singapore’s Youngest Principal Scientist in US. Prove it.
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@Terence, you are a spastic or what…anyone can now go to Baidu and post a similar posting and disguise it as something from PRC too…dumbass!!!
@ Mod…what’s stopping somewhat from Singapore or from TR posting such comments in Baidu and then stirring shit by claiming that it comes from PRC scholars???
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these PRCs are really talented.
they sell tainted milk and imitation LV and ‘PRATA’s;now,they BREAK lee hsien loong’s heart.
don’t be angry with them please;these communist students are doing what we,suppressed adult sinkies,’don’t want to do and can’t do’!
doesn’t that sounds like the the FTs pm lee wants to bring into singapore to replace us?
so,my fellow sinkies,THANK THESE COMMUNISTS,stop scolding them.
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我毕业后就选择回国了，我另一位同学就选择留下来拿国籍，，
现在我在上海赚的工资虽然比我那留了下来的同学底，不过因为国内的生活水平便宜得多，所以我能存的钱就比她多，我上海房子车子都买了，我同学还在租屋出门坐公交，虽然她很节俭不过在那里还是买不起房子和车子！
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Even PRCs know that Singapore government is a slave driver? We work so hard but still no money left at end of every month. So sad right?
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Really is there a point in arguing with PRs or morons (suspected to be a PR.), they can’t vote so they try to create havoc here. Well basically their opinions are not impt, reading some comments make me feel that they are just trying to protect their own interest. Basically its the same for singaporeans, just that we got our voting rights.
Waste no effort to argue with them, we true blue singaporeans just do what is right during voting day. Jus let those prs sing their own tune, basically that’s the only thing they can do. Actually to be truthful, prs can only whine, because they are insecure.
Singaporeans pls earn yrself some pride and respect and do what’s right during voting if you want a change. Basically our govt don’t give a damn to correct all the wrongs happening so its up to us.
To all PRs, sorry for the harsh truth, we vote and you don’t. So spare yrself some dignity and excuse yrself. You won’t win votes here. Start planning for your own future instead.
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And even what post. I just stumbled upon your blog or wanted to proclaim that I have really enjoyed reading your blog posts. Any way I’ll be subscribing to your feed or I hope you review constantly soon.
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i just pray for 1 day when i don’t have to hear PRC accented english or chinese at every other corner in NUS
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MY BLOOD IS BOILING.
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@Goh
You live in pulau ubin issit? Most Singaporeans personally know of foreign students who broke their bonds and asconded. I myself personally know of two. These internet postings merely confirmed these phenomena. Even PAP confirmed they are satisfied if only 3 out of 10 sponsored foreign students stayed. If you want further proof, go write to your MP and MOE instead of taking cock here.
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abv is an example why we need more FT, b’cos of out every 100, a big handful intended to nvr return to serve their bond, and another handful harbour such thoughts, maybe only 1 or 2 does intend serve their bond but still wanna leave thereafter, that’s why we need bring in more knowing most will subsequently leave, only a few will stay n become citizen or rather only as pr
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@wat? Good morning.
An interesting question.To prove, maybe you could arrange for an editor to interview me and have the article pub. in the national media. It will generate some interesting comments. FYI I am a NS defaulter, did my u/grad @ 16 (a Summa grad) and PhD @ 20((a Phi Beta Kappa grad)both bond-free scholarship. I was headhunt by McKinsey & Co, a principal scientist @25 with very very impressive CV n a sign-on bonus of S$15k.
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Pfiz…aries-E525.htm
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@Goh, you are supporter of PRCs? Why do you think this post is fake? Then wat is real? That sg gov just keep throwing money at foreigers? like you? Without any need to explain to her people how the money has generated real benefits. It’s about a decade since this open door shit is created to flow in “talents” how many created anything useful? How many took the scholarship and enjoyed life without paying back anything after 3 years?
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I just hope that I don’t have to attend prc accented lecture and tutorials in NUS and NTU… so many cheenas around… How to understand these “smart” people… They smarter than singaporean kids?
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They are a lot of PRC students in UK, not on scholarship of course, they pay at least £12K to £15K fees to study in any Uni in UK. The cost of living is another issue, bty, most of the students here I know are rich, frankly it is not easy to get an student visa to UK nowadays, the ku consulates in China check their bank account before letting them into UK!
Can anyone tell me why do Singapore(PAP)need to pay these people to study here, what is the rationale behind this policy?
Do we need ‘talents’ like Moron n sensiblePR in Singapore, what on earth have Singaporean done to deserve ‘talents’ like this?
The only answer I can think of is: we’ve created a monster with our own hands (our votes)!
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@YoungScientist
I guess I know who you are. U must be my TA @JH 2007. Congrat. n good for you and I am too happy for your achievement and dream. Hv a good labor day long weekend. Cheer.
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i am a true blue singapore and i finished poly with a civil engineering diploma. My interest was in IT and i want to do the ngee-ann IT diploma but i was rejected citing im a diploma holder. So i did my diploma at comsestrac.
when i want to apply to NTU to study for civil engineering degree, i was told that my grades arent at the top 5%, and i cannot do any other degrees because im a diploma holder, so i did my part time study with informatics. and i got 2nd upper honours.
when i want to study for an IT master degree at NUS, they said that all my paper qualifications are not recognised even though im working in the IT field for 5 years. So i did my master with informatic again.
when i applied to study bioinformatics at IMCB, they told me again that my qualifications are not recognised. But they can give it easily to any PRCs or indians students with full subsidies.
I knew the chances of obtaining a tertiary education in sg is next to impossible for my generation, and i saw many of my peers went onto adulthood with little skillsets. Thank goodness i perserved on and learn sufficient IT skills to allow me to migrate to australia where my skills are appreciated by the aussies.
Are we dumb? no. what we lack are the opportunities; to be educated , to work and to experience new skills. Canning all local singaporeans as dumb is a stupid sweeping statement and frankly, these kind of sg politicans will never survive a full term here in australia, they would have been kicked out by the public long ago.
Signing off,
ex-singapore strongman top-ten finalist.
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I was with the Monetary Authority of Singapore, and the MAS Board of Directors was debating on the enforcibility of scholarship bonds on foreigners as far back as 2002/03.
and guess what.. they decide to take the risk and to award to foreigners!
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@fishbuff
Good you make it in Australia. In S’pore your degrees are worthless and yet you hope to land a job at IMCB washing n drying test-tubes !!
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From what I know some years back, some of my PRC friends (who had graduated from local Uni and wanted to break the bond by returning to their homeland for good) actually emailed & called up MOE asking to pay for the penalties because they have so decide to break the bond. But MOE did not even want to pursue the matter.
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In order for Recruiters to get through the bulk of applications received, they scan through the details, noting keywords, skills and specific work experience that match the details of the job ad.
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