Dear PAP Minister Mr Lim swee say, please Walk the Talk.

[Christan]

Zorro - some1 who steals from the rich & gives to the poor

Batman - some1 who fights evil/crime

 

I look at A-Lim & he don't fit into the above category. The only character who he resembles more is Dracula (both sucks!!!)

[Atonchia]

My take is that the savings on labour wasn't necessarily passed on to the consumers. I mean after seeing so many PRCs working in restaurants, supermarkets and etc, do you seriously find that the prices of groceries, food in restaurants and etc was kept at a less than expected inflated prices? Just do

a comparison of things 5 yrs ago and now where currently we have much more cheaper foreign labour and you will notice that inflation has been going up at a rather quick pace and the savings on foreign labour din exactly help to keep the cost lower for us. So where do these cost savings go to?

 

You are right, it's not pass on to the consumers.

The groceries pricing cannot varies too much as suppliers most probably sell the same price to all the retailers. It's is only during promotion that consumers are able to have some cost saving.

 

However cost saving from overheads and operation cost will go to the available profits.

How these profits are being used by this co-operative depend on their policies and social responsibilities.

Part of it is to fund the loyalty points for Member...which amount to just as much as the annual member fees.

 

Being a co-operative, part of the social responsibilities is to be a job provider to ensure local suitable job seekers ....but now seeking Chinese cashier. is like drifting awat from the very core of their values, but we all know these position are really shunned by locals.

 

Those cost savings will not go as a normal lower pricing of groceries but rather through promotional discounts with suppliers.

 

[KARTer]

Imagine if PM donate $1mil/year, and if use 40 locals @ $1k/mth = $40k/mth = $480k/year + $40k/year bonus = $520k/year.

He can even create 40 more jobs in Singapore with the balance...

But this is pure wishful thinking.

such wishful thinkings are very disturbing to PM.............. pls, dont disturb him any more

[Kiadaw]

That's why policies implemented by the PAP is ultimately flawed. The elites will continue to support them while the rest suffers in silence. That's why J888 blind support of PAP is flawed too.

Maybe J888 is one of the big Taokay? Or he has multiple properties.

 

Seriously, there is no social responsibility in Singapore, hence its so stressful to live in Singapore. All man for himself.

 

From young, we were train that Money=King, respect, success, happiness.

 

[Vid]

Maybe J888 is one of the big Taokay? Or he has multiple properties.

 

Seriously, there is no social responsibility in Singapore, hence its so stressful to live in Singapore. All man for himself.

 

From young, we were train that Money=King, respect, success, happiness.

 

I foresee a singapore as only a place for a rich where the next generation has no future

[Kelpie]

I'm thinking aloud that this could be done on the purpose of pro-creation. Hopefully some managed to find the other half and become a citizen, perhaps within the same organization. Singapore is in need of retail professionals. They generally work long hours and have less time to socialize.

 

But again, why not the next door neighbours? They are also getting about the same pay right, I thought.

 

I believe the MY government is working towards min wage by next year. Somewhere like RM1000. Hence, if dollar to dollar, SG general worker should also be looking at S$1000 as their base salary.

 

Regards,

 

 

[Good-Carbuyer]

there are existing minister and MPs who were previously foreigners in the parliament now

When will we have foreigner as PM next? Seems to me we are surredering the whole country?

[Good-Carbuyer]

If he's cheaper, better, faster, why not? For what zorro is doing, a FT can do it for half the pay square-rooted three times!!

You mean many of us can do better?

[Ender]

Everyone must understand.

In order to pay high salary for the high ranking staffs, they need to hire cheap labours.

you, Singaporeans, are too expensive lah!

 

THINK! If they hired the locals, where can live in BIG house, BIG car and BIG pockets?!

 

When come to working class or middle income, they always says Singapore are expensive. But no ones talk about the upper management being expensive..

[Count-Bracula]

cashiers are the ones handling the money directly. by pap's theory, cashiers should be paid highly to prevent corruption. strange, why are they only paid 750?

 

Becos got CCTV to monitor them, this can prevent corruption you know?

[Ender]

There are jobs which are hard to replace with just anyone. The key is if you feel you can do a better job than your upper management, why not strive to get it.

This is not about personal advancement. This is about unequal distribution of wealth and cost cutting. If there're cost cutting, and cut across all board. If company are doing well, the bonus and increment across all board. The top management will still get high salary and bonus, but not at the expense of cutting cost the lower end job.

 

The SMRT salary increment saga is a example of wealth being horde at the top mismanagement.

[Count-Bracula]

This is not about personal advancement. This is about unequal distribution of wealth and cost cutting. If there're cost cutting, and cut across all board. If company are doing well, the bonus and increment across all board. The top management will still get high salary and bonus, but not at the expense of cutting cost the lower end job.

 

The SMRT salary increment saga is a example of wealth being horde at the top mismanagement.

 

That explains the widening income gap.

 

 

[Anakin]

not only cashiers, look at this:

 

Looking for PRC lifeguards

 

n others

Edited May 22, 2012 by Anakin

[Mustank]

My take is that the savings on labour wasn't necessarily passed on to the consumers. I mean after seeing so many PRCs working in restaurants, supermarkets and etc, do you seriously find that the prices of groceries, food in restaurants and etc was kept at a less than expected inflated prices? Just do

a comparison of things 5 yrs ago and now where currently we have much more cheaper foreign labour and you will notice that inflation has been going up at a rather quick pace and the savings on foreign labour din exactly help to keep the cost lower for us. So where do these cost savings go to?

 

main cost is land. MY supermkts are cheaper than SG. i suppose that the difference between us and them is (in terms of severity on cost):

 

1) land cost

2) 7% gst

3) labour cost

 

i think the cost price of the actual pdts hardly any differrence.....but i cant be sure about that

[Scb11980]

Revolutionising medical recording

All hospitals here use at least one system from Medisys Innovation, reports EVE YEO

 

22 May 2012

Business Times

TO promote his new software for electronically handling medical information, he went from one doctor to another across hospitals in Singapore.

 

They shut the door in his face as he had no track record in the electronic medical record (EMR) business, and no medical facility had ever adopted the programme.

 

That was about 10 years ago.

 

Today, all hospitals in Singapore are using at least one of the systems produced by Bao Yadong's medical informatics company, Medisys Innovation.

 

Mr Bao's lucky break came in 2003, when a doctor at the KK Women's and Children's Hospital showed interest in his medical recording system and introduced Mr Bao to the hospital's information technology department to further develop the system for adoption.

 

"With this first contact and reference, it was easier to convince other hospitals and doctors to accept the system," said Mr Bao.

 

A trained programmer, Mr Bao eventually created the EMR system to digitalise the traditional paper-based medical recording. Initially, he had set out to try and devise an endoscopy imaging system.

 

With the EMR system, detailed information about a patient's condition and the treatment received at every stage is entered into a system and can be accessed by all medical staff involved in the process.

 

This automated process reduces medical errors and improves communication between healthcare providers and across medical departments, said Mr Bao.

 

"Medical staff will not have difficulty trying to read a doctor's handwriting anymore."

 

Mr Bao began creating the digital recording system in 2001, when the EMR system was still in its infancy stages in Singapore.

 

"When I moved here in 1997, I saw that doctors were recording medical information by hand writing. It was a surprise as I had expected everything to be digitalised, given that Singapore was becoming increasingly technology-driven," said Mr Bao, whose parents are retired doctors in China.

 

A graduate of the University of Science and Technology of China, Mr Bao worked in programming in China and Singapore before starting Medisys in 2004. He has been a Singapore citizen for the last 10 years.

 

"Singapore is a good place to start a business because everyone has an equal opportunity. It doesn't matter if you are an unknown or are poor, there are many chances to succeed as long as you work hard."

 

In the first two years of establishing Medisys, Mr Bao did not employ any one. He was in charge of all the company's functions, and did everything from writing and editing the program to making client presentations.

 

From a turnover of $59,000 in the first year of operations, the company posted a $2.1 million turnover last year.

 

Medisys has since progressed from a one-man operation to having about 40 employees today.

 

Interestingly, the company has no sales and marketing team, relying instead on word-of-mouth advertising among medical practitioners to promote its services.

 

This method of marketing has proven effective so far, as seen in collaborations with SingHealth, the National Healthcare Group and other private healthcare providers such as ParkwayHealth and Raffles Medical Group.

 

Aside from healthcare providers, other clients include medical equipment and device vendors such as Fujion and Olympus in areas such as live video recording and image capturing.

 

The company is targeting the Malaysian and Chinese markets in the near future.

 

"China would be a good investment not only because of its market size but also for its labour pool," said Mr Bao.

 

"The EE Awards are a good springboard to overseas markets, and comes at a timely opportunity for Medisys to expand."

 

If Medisys wins the award, Mr Bao intends to tap on the available funds to expand and commercialise more systems - such as Smart Anatomy Charting & Reporting - for the company.

 

The company also aims to be listed publicly by 2018.

 

It is not all work and no play in the office, however. Birthdays are celebrated with cakes, company dinners are organised every two months and annual retreats are planned. So far, company employees have gone to Bintan and Tioman together.

 

This is the third year that Mr Bao has entered Medisys for the Emerging Enterprise Award but this is the first time that the company has progressed this far in the event.

 

When asked why he did not become a doctor like his parents, Mr Bao said that he had "always enjoyed programming".

 

"Being a doctor in China is not as prestigious as being a doctor in Singapore. The brightest Chinese students actually prefer computing to medicine."

 

Mr Bao lives in Singapore with his wife, Li Jiong, and two daughters.

 

 

 

[Mustank]

Not only land cost, labour cost. In Singapore, we practically do not have agriculture or farming, everything is imported therefore we are more reactive to inflation in food costs than a regular country. If Thailand rise the price of rice, what you going to do ? Can we make laws to prevent them from rising prices ? No, we need to go through diplomatic means, provide something they need to exchange for favourable conditions to trade.

 

but other supermkts, even domestic supermkts, are also subjected to the same cost increase if the actual product cost also increase. the difference, i think, would be the shipping cost for non-domestic supermkts

 

Explaination: if MY farmer plants a certain very nice rice which is popular, he will sell it to whoever who can match his price. he wont purposely sell cheaper to MY supermkts. But of course SG supermkts will have to bear shipping cost on top of pdt cost.

[Mustank]

You are assuming that farmers can export however they like, in a free competition global agricultural market -- this is not existent AFAIK. In most countries, there are laws to control agricultural production and exports. If the country is low in supply, will they supply for domestic needs or export ? On the other hand, there are countries which have over-supply which are driving prices down, but there will be the logistic costs and challenges that you mentioned for these countries.

 

very true!

[Timex1441]

must be at the age of 20-28, willing to take $1000 per month

 

some people here already call those cannot make $10k a month at age 40 a loser liao

who called me a loser?

(I think i'll be a "loser" for a long long time)