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Singaporeans troll Indranee Rajah for suggesting “automation such as conveyor belts in sushi restaurants, can help businesses cut down on manpower costs”

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Singaporeans troll Indranee Rajah for suggesting “automation such as conveyor belts in sushi restaurants, can help businesses cut down on manpower costs”

After the reading of 2019’s Budget by Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat on Monday, Feb 18, Singaporeans seem to be divided on some of the new schemes.

When Second Minister for Finance and Education Indranee Rajah spoke on radio station 938Now’s Talkback show about the automation of businesses, many took issue with her statement and called her out on social media.

As reported on ChannelNewsAsia, a radio caller had pointed out that lowering the foreign worker quota in the services sector would make it even more challenging for food and beverage outlets to “survive”.

The caller also said that it is “very difficult” for such companies to find staff.

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To this, Rajah pointed out that automation, such as the use of conveyor belts in sushi restaurants, can help businesses cut down on their manpower costs.

Netizens seemed to be rather tickled by her statement, with many stating that conveyor belts hardly cost as much as Ministers’ salaries. Others also said in jest that Members of Parliament could be automated as well.

 

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This is not the first time Indranee Rajah has received flak online; last year, after a Facebook post about how she ‘disturbed’ an elderly couple during a walkabout, she spoke out on her own Facebook page.

https://theindependent.sg.sg/mp-indranee-rajah-writes-back-against-private-facebook-post-that-claims-she-disturbed-senior-couple-during-tiong-bahru-lunch-walkabout/

Govt-linked agency hires Malaysian burglary suspect who ends up stealing $62,000 worth of IT equipment from IMDA

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Govt-linked agency hires Malaysian burglary suspect who ends up stealing $62,000 worth of IT equipment from IMDA

A Malaysian engineer was sentenced to two years’ imprisonment here on Tuesday, after he was found guilty of stealing expensive equipment from Government statutory board, the Info-communications Media Development Authority (IMDA).

Interestingly, the engineer, 23-year-old Soh Jun Cheng who holds Singapore permanent residency – was a burglary suspect in a separate case when he was employed by a Government-linked firm to provide IT support for the IMDA.

On 16 Nov 2017, Soh reportedly broke into a house at Chiselhurst Grove and stole $4,650 worth of electronic items. He was caught and granted court bail thereafter.

In March 2018, four months after the Chiselhurst Grove burglary, NCS Pte Ltd hired Soh.

NCS, formerly known as National Computer Systems, was founded by the Singapore Government founded NCS in 1981. The organisation was restructured as a commercial entity in 1996 and became a wholly owned subsidiary of SingTel Group in 1997.

NCS is the same organisation that was involved in the latest IT fiasco at the Ministry of Health, in which the wrong Community Health Assist Scheme (CHAS) subsidies were distributed to 7,700 patients.

1,300 patients received a total $400,000 less subsidies than what they were eligible for while 6,400 patients received about $2 million total more subsidies than what they qualify for. MOH has said that it will “recover from NCS the costs and expenses incurred as a result of this incident”.

NCS employed Soh while he was out on court bail over the Chiselhurst Grove case. Soh was directed by NCS’ service desk to provide IT support to the IMDA and was tasked to issue and change laptops for IMDA staff.

As part of his work with the IMDA, Soh was given access to secure rooms in the IMDA office where IT equipment was kept. Saddled with gambling debt, Soh reportedly decided to steal equipment from the secure rooms at IMDA to pay off his debt.

Within weeks of being directed to provide IT support for IMDA, Soh stole $62,000 worth of computer equipment.

Soh earned about $28,000 by selling these stolen items on Carousell under the username, “1sell2buy”. He was finally caught when the theft at IMDA was discovered, leading to his arrest in June last year.

Soh’s defence lawyer argued in court that his client has a gambling disorder. The court heard that most of the $28,000 Soh had earned from the sale of the stolen equipment was spent in casinos, on debts or daily expenses.

Employing minors as maids in Singapore becoming a dangerous trend

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Employing minors as maids in Singapore becoming a dangerous trend

There is an increasing number of under-aged women being employed as maids in Singapore.

In a 2017 report, at least 240,000 domestic workers were recorded based on the estimated data of the Ministry of Manpower (MOM). Of this, more than 200 workers were believed to be underage. More and more cases have been observed in recent years.

According to MOM’s data, the country’s ministry of human resources, the recruitment of underage help has become prevalent.

In 2017 alone, the agency estimated underage workers to be at 8.7% per 10,000 domestic workers, up from 4.3% and 6.4% in the previous years, respectively.

For the past three years, MOM has acted against 98 job agencies for providing minors as domestic helpers in Singapore.

In May 2018, two agencies were penalised for bringing in 13-year-old Myanmar workers. The agencies were fined S$5,000, sentenced to jail for six months, and their licenses revoked.

John Gee, Transient Workers Count Too (TWC2) research subcommittee president, noted most of the trafficked workers were Myanmar teenagers that were easily victimized since the recruitment in their country is “much less regulated.”

He cited recruitment agencies get big bucks without hassle based on how many maids they can provide to Singaporean employers.

In case no suitable candidates want to travel abroad to work as maids, they simply persuade the younger girls to give it a try to help their families’ alleviate their living conditions.

Sometimes, they approach young girls’ parents to convince their daughters to work overseas.

The recruitment modus
Most agencies play a vital role in the recruitment process. It depends on how they operate when it comes to hiring minors.

As is common practice by some illegal agencies in poor Asian countries, maids are forced to use false passports with a different age so it will not be obvious that they are still teenagers.

Most recruiters mainly consider the young girls’ appearance when hiring them.

When the young maids reach Singapore, they are confronted with the high transport cost, accommodation, and rising agency fees. So the minor maids have no choice but to stay and are forced to lie about their real age. Otherwise, they would have to come back home debt-ridden and empty-handed.

The recruited young girls get low salaries in Singapore. However, these are higher compared to what they receive in their home countries where their living conditions are even more uncertain.

The report cited that domestic helpers on average receive about S$381 monthly. When they send money back home, this is reduced to S$158.

The disparity in pay is great compared to the average Singaporean who earns a monthly salary of S$3,694. Compared to the pay of a foreign domestic helper, it is at least one-tenth of the average.

According to Singapore legislation, a domestic workers’ age in the city-state should be at least 23.

However, in extreme cases, such as agents in Myanmar, they reportedly bribe officials in the Immigration Department to change the young girls’ birth dates on their passports to make it easy to enter Singapore.

Several of the girls are barely in their teens. However, as their documents have been falsified, their real ages are hard to detect once they arrive in Singapore.

Myanmar agents strictly instruct the girls never to tell anyone their real age.

‘Business not as usual’ for companies that rely on foreign workers, say analysts in the wake of budget cuts on foreign employment

Anna Maria Romero
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‘Business not as usual’ for companies that rely on foreign workers, say analysts in the wake of budget cuts on foreign employment

Analysts believe that the Government’s plan to cut the number of foreign workers in the services sectors will affect businesses resulting in slower growth.

In Finance Minister Heng Swee Keat’s announcement of this year’s budget, he discussed the plan to reduce the ratio of foreign workers to the total workforce in the services sector by five points to 35% by the year 2021.

The purpose of the reduction is to encourage businesses to employ new technologies and reduce the reliance on foreign workers.

Workers from overseas have increased by 50,000 in the last five years, bringing the total number to 1.37 million in 2018.

However, these plans may prove to be a challenge for many firms, because losing low-cost labour will cause a heavier financial burden on them.

The Nikkei Asian Review quotes an economist at Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC), Howie Lee, as saying, “In a period of low inflation, most businesses are struggling to raise prices. At the same time, the economic gloom this year will provide challenging headwinds to these sectors as consumers tighten their purse strings. Affected businesses will have to tread very carefully in their shifts from labor dependency to investing in capital under such an environment.”

Food and beverage businesses, in particular, may be among the hardest hit by this new policy.

Teo Siong Seng, the Chairman of the Singapore Business Federation (SBF) said that shifting and long hours in the food and business and retail sectors “often make it challenging for establishments to hire local workers, resulting in them having to rely on foreign workers,” ChannelNewsAsia reported.

He added, “We hope companies that are most affected by the lowering can take the opportunity to examine closely how they can leverage technology to innovate and restructure or redesign the jobs to make them more meaningful and attractive for local workers.”

Moreover, due to a global slowdown in the tech sector, as well as ongoing trade tensions between the United States and China, the two largest economies in the world, Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry said lately that economic growth for 2019 will most likely falter from the 3.2 percent posted in 2018.

Heng said in his speech on Monday, “Relying on more and more foreign workers is not the long-term solution. What we need is to have a sustainable inflow of foreign workers to complement our workforce, while we upgrade our Singaporean workers and build deep enterprise capabilities in these sectors.”

This thrust is aligned with the country’s initiatives for Singapore to change into a knowledge-driven economy, while it moves further away from reliance on technology manufacturing and services.

One major concern with this thrust, however, is its effect of higher salaries, and therefore, operating costs.

According to Citigroup’s economists, “The implied reduction in labor supply in the services sector could maintain upward pressure on services wage growth…This measure is likely to contribute to an upstream cost factor in the medium term.”

However, Heng has already said that pressure from rising costs to businesses has already been taken into consideration.

He emphasized that the reduction of foreign workers is needed. “If we do not take action early, our firms will find it harder to compete in the years ahead, and our workers will be left behind.”

The Government will aid firms in making their transition to meet the new quotas by 2021.

Indranee Rajah, the Second Minister for Finance and Education, acknowledged that this will be a challenge for businesses, especially in the food and beverage sector, but is willing to help firms evaluate their operations in order to make them more manpower-efficient.

On her part, Manpower Minister Josephine Teo mentioned the Lean Enterprise Development (LED) scheme put in place specifically to help companies for this purpose, as it would assist in making them more manpower-lean and also upgrade the quality of jobs.

Read related: Govt chooses potential election year to cut foreign worker quota to 35%

https://theindependent.sg.sg/govt-chooses-potential-election-year-to-cut-foreign-worker-quota-to-35/

 

Food stall owners appeal to the public to help a poverty stricken mum and her disabled son

Anna Maria Romero
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Food stall owners appeal to the public to help a poverty stricken mum and her disabled son

Mummy Yummy is a food stall business with a big heart. Last November we reported that they give a 50 percent discount for vegetarian meals to cleaners and housekeepers near their stall in Shenton Way, and have been doing so for the past two years.

Last Friday, February 15, the people behind Mummy Yummy Singapore made an appeal for help for one particular elderly woman, Madam Neo, who is in dire straits and sells cardboard pieces at S$0.05 per kilogram to support herself and her mentally disabled son.

To make matters worse, Neo has fallen ill with arthritis and has been unable to go out and sell the cardboard she has collected. Her bills have been piling up, and, according to Mummy Yummy’s post, she is contemplating suicide to end all her troubles.

The food stall owners are calling upon the good citizens of Singapore to step in and help out, specifically with sponsoring the daily meals for Neo and her son, as well as sponsorship for their monthly utility bills.

In what is presumably an update, Mummy Yummy added that meal sponsorships have been raised for three months and that a sponsor for utility bills has been found as well.

The post also contains a contact number for a certain Jeana (9725 0118), should anyone wish to contribute to the needs of Neo and her son. The post originally ended with the group’s pledge to do even more for the needy.

“Once again thank you for your attention and in 2019, Mummy Yummy will continue to strive harder for the less fortunate groups of people living amongst us.

One for all, all for one!”

In an addendum to the post, Mummy Yummy wrote that the Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) has reached out to the food stall and they are coordinating with them for more help for Neo and her son.

They also said that they are providing daily meals for the two.

Madam Neo’s story

Mummy Yummy’s post chronicles the daily struggles of Neo and her son in detail.

She needs to sell at least 60kgs of cardboard every day for their meals.

They can only afford to have rice once a day, and their other meal comes from donated bread from a nearby shop.

Neo herself goes without breakfast daily.

Her son is her biggest source of concern. Aside from being intellectually handicapped, he also has a serious skin ailment and needs regular medicines to prevent his skin from bleeding and tearing off.

She receives $150 worth of government vouchers, which she spends on disposable diapers and cooling powder for her son, as well as some basic items.

Neo and her son have been going without proper meals for the last fortnight since she fell ill with arthritis.

As Mummy Yummy writes, “For the last 2 weeks, everyday for them is living hell without proper meals and totally ZERO aid. Their utility bills are stacking up and there is no end to trouble for Neo to the extent she is contemplating ending her life to stop her suffering once and for all.”

Netizens and MFS respond

Netizens have responded to Mummy Yummy’s post with offers of assistance. Some offered to help with meals, others with paying for the utility bills, and yet others, with cleaning her house.

Singapore’s Ministry of Social and Family Development (MSF) responded to the post as well, saying they are in coordination with Mummy Yummy in order to give Neo and her son the assistance they need.

The Ministry also asked for further information on them, and added that if anyone knows of people who need help, to reach out to MSF.

Read related: Hawker stall believes in ‘doing good’—offers food at half price for cleaners

https://theindependent.sg.sg/hawker-stall-believes-in-doing-good-offers-food-at-half-price-for-cleaners/

 

SensorFlow secures US$2.7M Series A funding from Pierre Lorinet

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SensorFlow secures US$2.7M Series A funding from Pierre Lorinet

The cleantech company said the plan would be to use the funding to create smart across Southeast Asia

Singapore-based smart energy management company SensorFlow has announced that it has secured US$2.7 million Series A funding from private investor Pierre Lorinet. Joining the round is Playfair Capital, Cocoon Capital, Entrepreneur First, 2be.lu Investments, Aurum Land, and Insitu Asia Holdings.

Also Read: ViSenze raises US$20M Series C funding round co-led by Gobi Partners, Sonae IM

The company said that it will use the funding to focus on accelerating regional growth to Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Philippines, which will bring the company closer to its goal of 800,000 smart hotel rooms by 2022. Its mission is to support hotels across Asia with the efficiency of smart energy technology.

It also seeks to use the funding for an operation to meet the need of their hotel chain customers in Singapore, Indonesia, and Hong Kong.

“This investment has put us in an even stronger position for market expansion to help more hotels within the region reach their sustainability goals. We also have our eyes set on entering Sri Lanka, India, United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia within the next two years,” said Co-founder and CEO of SensorFlow Saikrishnan Ranganathan.

SensorFlow offers a solution that solves three key challenges that used to prevent hoteliers from implementing effective, integrated energy management solutions. They are the large upfront costs for hardware followed by the inconvenience of a long installation period as well as the lack of integration options with existing systems.

SensorFlow records that energy consumption accounts for more than 60 percent of utility costs for the hotel business. The problems that hoteliers often face include the challenge of reducing energy use is high costs and disruptions when implementing new energy solutions.

“With SensorFlow, the solution provided can be installed in a matter of minutes and seamlessly integrates into existing infrastructure. Using wireless sensors, SensorFlow collects real-time data and artificial intelligence (AI) to automate decision-making without cost subscription model – catering to hotels that are unable or unwilling to tap into larger capital expenditure budgets,” explained Ranganathan.

SensorFlow’s track records include deploying property-wide solutions for The Uncharted Co’s 5footway.inn in Singapore and completing trials in three Alila Hotels & Resorts properties in Bali, managed to drive a 30 percent reduction in energy costs.

SensorFlow is on track with the findings from International Energy Agency, which stated that Southeast Asia’s energy demand is expected to grow by nearly 60 percent by 2040. With the building sector accounting for approximately 25 percent of Asia’s overall energy consumption, solutions provided by SensorFlow is expected to create more sustainable energy consumption.

Also Read: Singapore a honeypot for cryptocurrency and blockchain projects, data shows

The funding brings the total funds raised by SensorFlow to date to US$3.5 million. Last year’s initial seed funding was led by Cocoon Capital and followed by SG Innovate and SparkLabs under the Entrepreneur First accelerator programme.
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SDP’s Dr Chee whacks incumbents saying budget akin to eat now, pay later as goodies are doled out to ‘lull’ voters in case of election

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SDP’s Dr Chee whacks incumbents saying budget akin to eat now, pay later as goodies are doled out to ‘lull’ voters in case of election

The Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) pulled out all the stops and called out the incumbent People’s Action Party (PAP) after the reading of the Budget 2019. In a statement they released on social media, as well as via email, Dr Chee Soon Juan Secretary-General wrote that “History is repeating itself” as the elections draw nearer.

Dr Chee said that prior to the General Election in 2015, they gave out “concessions here, rebates there and [got] everyone drunk with SG50 merriment”.

“But what happens when the party is over, my friends?” he asked.

“Your housing loan is still not paid, the electricity bill has gone up, and the guy that threw the party now sends you the bill for the cake, the decorations and the drinks”.

Dr Chee continued, “True enough. After GE 2015, the PAP raised water prices, car-park charges, bus fares, ERP rates, gas and electricity tariffs, town council charges, and kindergarten, polytechnic, ITE, university fees, etc. It is going to raise the GST in a couple of years time”.

The SDP disagreed with the spending of the budget, calling it “myopic and irresponsible”.

Dr Chee also said, “nothing in the current Budget addresses the high cost of living in the world’s most expensive city, the seriously unaffordable public housing, and an outmoded education system that does not prepare our children for the future”.

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While those who commented on Dr Chee’s Facebook post were indeed in agreement, many expressed a ‘take first, think later’ sentiment, saying that they would be foolish to refuse the goodies thrown their way.

Indonesia bids for 2032 Olympics despite huge infrastructure challenges

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Indonesia bids for 2032 Olympics despite huge infrastructure challenges

After the much-praised success of the 2018 Asian Games, Indonesia has submitted its bid to host the 2032 Olympics.

The winning candidate will be selected by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2025.

Tokyo shall be hosting the 2020 Summer Olympics while Paris, France shall host the 2024 Games and Los Angeles, USA in 2028.

Japan, China, and South Korea are the only Asian countries to host the Olympics so far.

Cities that hope to host the Olympic games are screened by a rigorous IOC candidature process.

The process includes developing strategic concepts and legacy plans, determining whether the city has the necessary legal and financial mechanisms to host, and ensuring the sustainability of the games operations for all stakeholders.

In September 2018, President Widodo already expressed an interest in hosting the 2032 Olympics.

While the 2018 Asian Games has been successful, Indonesia’s preparations for the international athletic competition were far from flawless.

Vietnam backed out of hosting the 2018 Asian Games citing the financial toll such a large-scale international event would take on their economy. Indonesia then had less time to construct venues and prepare Jakarta for the arrival of 11,000 athletes and 5,000 officials from 45 Asian countries.

Being the most densely populated country in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is notorious for its gridlocked traffic conditions.

The country has also often dealt with security issues such as the threat of terrorism.

Ahead of the April 2019 elections, Widodo has been criticised for the government’s “inefficient” infrastructure spending.

The Palembang Light Rail Transit is one such project that received much uproar for being mere “monuments.” Service is slow and inefficient which discourages people from using the trains.

Taiwan president adamant to stay on until 2020 despite drawing flak from many

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Taiwan president adamant to stay on until 2020 despite drawing flak from many

Regardless of her declining popularity and Beijing’s antagonism towards her, Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen is running for re-election as the island’s leader in 2020.

“It’s natural that any sitting president wants to do more for the country and wants to finish things on his or her agenda… I’m confident. It’s something I have to be prepared for,” says the sitting president.

On criticism, she said,”Being President here, you’re not short of challenges. At good times you have challenges of one sort, and in bad times you have challenges of another sort. So, it’s always a challenge – one after the other,” was her response.

The first woman to be elected leader of the self-governed democratic island in 2016, Tsai catapulted to power along with guarantees to overhaul the economy and lessen Taiwan’s dependence on mainland China.

Two years afterward, her Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) underwent bumps and hammerings during the local elections in 2018, pushing her to resign as chairwoman of the party. Across the island, her party lost by almost 10% of the vote.

Since then, she has confronted clamors from senior members of her own party not to seek re-election. Nevertheless, in the face of disapproval and censure, she is “confident” in her ability to win, Tsai told media.

Strained ties
In the face of continuing tensions in her own turn, Tsai believed cross-strait relations were not a major aspect in her party’s setback during the 2018 elections.

Tsai blamed her party’s colossal defeat on what she calls a thorny reform program she has set in motion since taking office.

Likewise, her initiatives to advance pension reform and push for equal rights for the island’s LGBT community have become conflict-ridden issues in Taiwan, spurring dissent and across the island.

Tsai lamented, “You get attacks, you get criticism, the people don’t feel the result of the reform so much when you’ve just started.”

Tsai will be confronted with a tough re-election bid and could be compelled to deflect other contenders both from her own party and the Kuomintang (KMT), the main opposition party that conventionally favors closer relations with mainland China.

Some polls have Tsai down as much as 30% against potential Kuomintang presidential nominee Eric Chu, whom she defeated in 2016.

Asked if there was anything she regretted from her first term in office, Tsai said she felt she had spent too little time talking with voters in her first two years in power.

“I spent too much time managing government affairs and I spent a lot of time making foreign visits to our diplomatic allies,” she said. “Many people thought I was a bit detached from them.”

Monster husband pimps out wife, sexually assaults and molests daughters

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Monster husband pimps out wife, sexually assaults and molests daughters

A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 25 and a half years in jail, 24 strokes of the cane, and fined S$12,000 for pleading guilty to charges of prostituting his wife, molesting his minor daughter, and sexually assaulting his 6-year-old daughter.

The wife married her husband in 2012, who said that she was already being beaten up even while they were dating.

The beatings continued throughout her pregnancy with death threats should she tell her family or the police.

The wife who worked as a receptionist and office assistant, barely made ends meet with her S$1,800 salary and meager allowance which her husband took from her.

The husband was jobless and refused to work, leeching off his wife.

They considered aborting their second child in 2015 when the woman lost her job since they could no longer afford milk and diapers for their child.

When she suggested that he find work, the husband instead forced her into prostitution, being familiar with how to do so as he frequently hired prostitutes online.

The woman refused but needed money and feared for her life. She was forced into prostituting herself to some 138 customers that she had met in Balestier hotel.

The husband took all the money she earned from prostitution.

He had also beaten her with a dumbbell on one occasion after she refused to participate in a threesome with one of the customers. He also filmed her doing depraved sexual acts to satisfy his fetishes.

As if these horrors were not enough, the “monster” of a man also lured his wife’s 13-year-old niece and molested her in a hotel room and forced his own 6-year-old daughter to perform a heinous sexual act.

Psychiatrists diagnosed the man with anti-social personality disorder and described how he was “somewhat boastful of his sexual exploits.” The man was remorseless and devoid of expression when his sentence was read.

Netizens are furious with what they deem as a light sentence for the man’s crimes. Many demanded that he be executed or suffer the same torture he forced his victims to undergo.

There are others who blame the victimized wife for being complicit in her husband’s crimes and being instrumental in the assault of her niece.

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