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Compulsory NS fitness programmes for poly students?

NSmen The life of a male Singaporean is tough. Not only does he have to compete with foreigners for jobs, he has to undergo 2 years of national service (NS) and be an "Operationally-Ready" National Serviceman (NSman) for the next 20 to 30 years, protecting Singapore and, of course, the foreigners working in Singapore. As if...

35% of NUS student population are foreigners

At a lunch event in October 2012, PM Lee disclosed that foreign students then formed about 16% of the university enrolment compared with 18% in 2011 (‘PM: Proportion of foreign students in universities going down‘). He has promised to cut the university foreign student enrolment to 15% by 2015. To do this, he plans to open...

4 in 10 SG employees want to retire early

Nearly 4 in 10 (37%) employees in Singapore want to retire at the age of 55, according to the 2014 Randstad Award survey of 6,546 such persons. Currently, the statutory minimum retirement age set by the government is 62. It is not surprising that more employees in Singapore want to retire earlier considering the fact that they...