Industry sectors irrespective of the stream and product they have manufactured have depended on skilled working force adjusting to quickly changing market strategies and business realities. The biggest challenges that employers have faced was work retrenchments. Yet service sectors have expanded their staffing levels because they have always relied on a wait-and-see approach. In the… Read More »

An online study conducted by Ipsos, a global research company, and SSI, a provider of data solutions, in December last year revealed that 42 percent of Singapore nationals want to emigrate if they were provided an opportunity. In the study, 1,050 citizens of Singapore were surveyed across demographics such as age, ethnicity, occupation, gender and… Read More »

The medical tourism industry is reportedly worth $439 billion and is expected to grow at a rate of up to 25 percent incremental growth per year over the next 10 years. It is expected that three to four percent of the global population will travel overseas to seek treatment for health-related issues, says a report… Read More »

Singapore is calling out to for data scientists, engineers and technologists abroad to emigrate back to Singapore to figure on the ‘Smart Nation’ plan. Recently, the Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) extended Singapore’s initial Smart Nation Fellowship Programme that is primarily targeting Singaporeans working abroad. One of the targets has been the logistic business in Singapore.… Read More »

Singapore introduced rules at the end of December 1965 to make it compulsory for non-citizens to obtain work permits to work in the country . The move would prevent Singapore from becoming a dumping ground for the unemployed in Malaysia, Labour Minister Jek Yeun Thong said of the rule in the Regulation of Employment Bill.… Read More »

Singapore has secured the top position in the list of most preferred overseas destination for Indian travellers in first half of this year, replacing Dubai, a Hotels.com’s Hotel Price Index (HPI) survey said. The data is drawn from bookings made on the thousands of hotels on the Hotels.com websites worldwide. Hotels.com is a leading online… Read More »