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On Sunday (14 Jun), TRE reported that 4 foreign-graduate dentists on conditional registration in Singapore are doing dental work in Little India without any apparent supervision ('Foreign-graduate dentists working illegally in SG?'). The 4 dentists are practising at a dental clinic at Kerbau Road called Little India Dentist... 

The Jobs Bank launched last August ostensibly to help more Singaporean PMEs get jobs is now being questioned even by NTUC. Under the government's Fair Consideration Framework, employers must advertise a job on the Jobs Bank portal for 14 calendar days, so that Singaporeans have a fair stab at the job, before they are allowed... 

The Straits Times published an article today ('Hire bankers on merit, not nationality', 15 Jun) which quoted UBS Singapore country head Edmund Koh as saying that locals should prove their worth when seeking a position in the financial sector, which is still dominated by foreigners at senior levels. "If you go up the hierarchy...