January 17, 2010
Dear PM Lee & Mr Gan,
I refer to the online report by local blog www.temasekreview.com
(see article:
here) that Courts
Singapore will be holding a mass recruitment exercise across the
causeway to fill up their Singapore operations’ positions with
Malaysian only.
I would like to know the Ministry of Manpower’s position on this
matter.
PM Lee, it is somehow good news to hear recently on some Government
announcements that give native Singaporeans certain priority such
as primary school balloting and revision of school fee for
PR/foreigners. However, most of these announcements are simply
superficial don’t really give a clear distinction between citizens
and foreigners.
During the early pre-independence days, the PAP Government under
then-PM
Lee Kuan Yew had campaigned for a ‘Malaysian Malaysia’ policy. Why
after fifty years the PAP Government has sifted it ‘goal-post’ from
a ‘Singaporean Singapore’ to ‘pro-Foreign Talent Singapore’
policy? Is it because of such radical
shift that caused companies to also adopt a pro-Foreign HR
policy?
Yours Faithfully,
A native-born Singaporean – Tan Keng Hong
