Singapore government try to reduce reliance on foreign workers.

According to MOM, workers will be reclassified as "basic skilled( those with Skill certificate)” & "higher skilled(those with 4 years relavant experience with skill certificte)”. There will be no more unskilled worker category. The respective levies for the two tiers will start at $230 and $180, and rise to $300 and $200 one year later.

While S Pass holders can still comprise up to 25 per cent of a company's workforce, employers from July will have to pay $100 per worker for the first 20 per cent and $120 a worker for the remaining 5 per cent. Three years on, the rates will hit $150 for the first 15 per cent and $250 for the rest.Currently, firms pay a $50 levy per S Pass worker. The number of S Pass workers nearly doubled from 44,000 in 2007 to 82,000 last December.

Because of the transitory nature of workers and the reluctance of Singaporeans to enter the sector, the levy hikes - at least for the next three years - will not achieve its intended aims. Consumers may be staring at higher housing costs in the medium term.( From today online by Teo Xuanwei).

ျပည္သူပိုင္ပစၥည္း..လက္သင့္ရာစားေတာ္ေခၚနိုင္ပါသလား

(From Thadar blogspot.com)
ေငြမ်ား ေငြနိူင္..ေငြရွိသူ ပိုင္..
ျပည္သူပိုင္ပစၥည္း..လက္သင့္ရာစားေတာ္ေခၚနိုင္ပါသလား.
ရွိသမွ် အမုိးခြါ.. တိုင္ခ်ြတ္ေရာင္း
ျပည္သူအတြက္ မက်န္တာ တိုင္းျပည္ဘ႑ာတိုက္ ေဟာင္းေလာင္း
ျပည္သူဟာ တိရိစၦာန္သာသာ..က်ြန္သာသာလား..
ငံု ့ခံေနတာ..ဒို ့အျပစ္ပါ တကား…

ေၾကာင္ဆိုရင္…လက္သည္းထုတ္ၾကဖို ့ အခ်ိန္တန္ျပီ..
ေျမြေပြးမွန္ အေမာက္ေထာင္ျပဖို ့ လိုသည္.
ကင္းျမီးေကာက္ မွန္ အျမီးေထာင္တုတ္ၾကရန္လိုျပီ။
လူတိုင္းကိုယ္စီ စြမ္းရည္ရွိသည္။.
မတရားမွဳမွန္ တြန္းလွန္တိုက္ခိုက္ရန္ လိုသည္။

လူဘ၀ သည္ တၾကိမ္သာေမြး..တၾကိမ္ဘဲေသသည္။
ရခဲေသာလူ ့ဘ၀ လြတ္လပ္စြာ လူပီသရန္ျဖစ္သည္။
လူသတ္လက္နက္သည္ ေၾကာက္ရန္မဟုတ္။
လူသား၏ တည္ထြင္မွူတရပ္..သာ
သင့္ ၏ စြမ္းရည္သာလွ်င္ တန္ဖိုးမျဖတ္အပ္။
သင္သည္သာ သင္၏ ေခါင္းေဆာင္ျဖစ္၏။
သင္သည္သာ သင့္အနာဂတ္အတြက္ ကိုးစားရာျဖစ္၏။

သင္သည္ ပိုင္သည္ သင္၏ အနာဂတ္…
လမ္းဆံုမွာ ရပ္ေန..မေတြေ၀နဲ ့ေတာ့..
အာဏာရွင္နိဂံုး..အဆံုးသတ္ရန္..
တဦးခ်င္းစီ..တာ၀န္ယူၾက။
ညီညာဖ်ဖ်..တြန္းလွန္ၾက။

သင္ဝိညာဥ္သည္သာ သင္၏သူရဲေကာင္း..
သင္၏ ရာဇ၀င္ေၾကာင္းမွာ…
မဆုတ္မကြာရွိေနတယ္..

ကဲ လာ..ခြပ္လိုက္ၾကစို ့သူငယ္ခ်င္း…
မနိုင္မခ်င္း…အသက္ရင္းေစ..
ဒို ့၏ ေျမအတြက္….
ဒို ့သားေျမးအတြက္..
က်ြန္ုပ္တို ့၏ လြတ္ေျမာက္ေရးအတြက္…

Quintana left Burma with bare Hand.

UN Human Rights Envoy to Burma Tomás Ojea Quintana expressed “regret” that he was not given the opportunity to meet with Burma's detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi as he concluded a five-day visit to the country.

At a press conference at Rangoon's international airport, he said that it will be difficult to hold free and fair elections in Burma and that he saw no signs that Burma's more than 2,100 political prisoners will be released.

Privitization or Personalization

Fiver Star shipping line(FSSL) , MAI, and Petroleum Filling Stations have been sold out to his cronies. FSSL was sold out to MEC( Military’s economic arm), MAI to Kambaw Za bank(Former Narcotic drug lord), Filling Station to Htoo Company(owned by Teza.

Where is the transparency in this sell out? Any rules and regulation (Pension, social security etc)for the people working in this enterprise?

Any reason behind this fast sold out the enterprise? Who will get benefit? People or his cronies? Privitization should be done cautiously. Hastily privitization get adverse effect on economy.

In reality the way Junta doing is not privitization, it is PERSONILIZATION OF PUBLIC ASSESTS.

U Tin U release and UN envoy arrived

It is glad to hear that U Tin Oo was released from 6 years house arrest . It is not Junta goodwill . The UN's envoy to Burma, Tomás Ojea Quintana arrived one day before his release. The Junta is playing game again.

Selection of Representative for NLD Pegu Division

It is sad to hear that the selection process is not democratic. Pegu Division EC was formed with those chosen from NLD CEC , not considering the view from Township representative. This time unity is utmost important. Be remember how the party CC was formed during Japanese occupation.

Where is John Web??

Senator John Web came to Burma and bring back Mr Yettaw to US. Actually Mr Yetaw breached law. Nyi Nyi Aung, naturalized US citizen, did nothing wrong with Law in Burma. He was sentenced 3 yrs yesterday. What are you doing Senator John web?

Economic reform and Thakin Tin Mya

Economic reform first or political reform first? In Russia, political reform did first, then people suffered a lot because of privitization. In China, economic reform first, politically still not democratic, but people get richer than before.
In order to follow china example, leaders should be uncorrupted. In Burma, we could not do like China as you all know Than Swe and his gangs characters. Step by step privitization under the great leader like Daw Su, we can attain best results. Otherwise , people will be under heavy economic pressure.
Every time colur changing and only one foot away from grave Thakin Tin Mya is advertising Economic reform first policy. What is his motive for writing and advertising this policy? Is he writing for money?