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30 years ago, Singaporeans already started moving overseas and taking up regional leadership roles. These Singaporeans are now in the late 40s and early 50s and are being retrenched because of countries like China, Malaysia, Thailand localizing to cut costs. These regional executives are either in regional marketing or line... 

The Singapore Workforce Development Agency (WDA) referred to several professional conversion programmes (PCP) in its reply ("Efforts to enhance PMEs' employability"; June 11). The PCP for infocomm technology states that the candidate "must be newly hired and nominated by an eligible participating company for the PCP". PCPs... 

From the poem “The second coming,” by William Butler Yeats, I quote, "Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold," two lines which resonate with Mr Tharman Shanmugaratnam’s allusion to able government forming a sort of core of society and centrifugal forces as “invisible hand[s] of society” that threatens to disrupt,...