Well, it is the LAST DAY of 1H2015!! How has I measured up against my 2015 Resolutions? Probably so so only. Still continuing to be as diligent as possible in living a Healthy Lifestyle.
1. "MINDEF supports NS deferment if it is "fair": Dr Ng - CNA 30 June 2015
The Ministry of Defence gets many requests for National Service deferment every year, and it will support the requests "which we can explain to the rest of the public, and that the public feels it is fair," says Minister Ng Eng Hen."
Well, I SAID just as much in my posting on this topic. A robust and transparent system to the PUBLIC after the relevant authority TAKE A STAND on who are the sports persons that DESERVE counting their training time as part of their NS obligation unless that time is going to be more than the full 2-year of his NS commitment!
Honestly, after the BMT and whatever 'specialist' or OCF training, there are many things to do that will make the NSmen feel inadequate to perform whatever duties he had been trained on!
2. "Free labour movement could pose big problem for ASEAN Economic Community
When ASEAN debuts its new trade bloc known as the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by the end of this year, its 10 members could come under the threat of relaxed labour movement, which may worsen the migrant crisis in the Andaman Sea.
BANGKOK: Relaxed movement of labour within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) could pose "a big problem" to its 10 member countries, when they ring in the much-anticipated ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) this year, warned Vice-Chairman of Thailand's Board of Trade (BOT) Dr Jingjai Hanchanlash during an economic leadership forum in Bangkok on Tuesday (Jun 30)."
Will this ACE thingy work? Yes if ALL member states CAN and WILL accept ALL labour movements within ACE. NO if SOME member states, if not ALL, CANNOT stomach the INFLUX of 'Asean workers from home countries' that create 'pressure' for the 'locals'!!
Lessons for me are:
1. just look at EU and the migrant problem the insistence on the 'right to free movement within EU' is creating or had created in the past, and in the more recently past. While other people's experience may not necessarily translate into OUR experience, suffice to say that when some host nations SIMPLY do not have the infrastructure, the financial strength nor the job vacancies to satisfy the MASSIVE influx of 'Asean migrants', there WILL BE conflicts with the 'displaced LOCALs'!! It is a question of when the conflict will surface and NOT if it will surface!!;
2. will the member states with a large population have unnatural advantages in this 'free labour movement within ACE' premises? Looks like it. If this is a reality in Singapore, the 'New Migrants Integration Program' will have to scale up 100x or 1000x just to reach the 'new migrants who WANT to be integrated!'
Q is: do we have the resources and the process to execute and monitor that it is successfully and effectively 'rolled out'?
3. how to manage the uncontrolled influx, if any? And also the procedure for 'returning the excess free labour movement that are creating tensions and ill wills' in a 'abundant supply vs. limited job opening' situation,
ACE is a good idea. At the same time, is it the time to do this? If the timing is not ripe, GOOD INTENTION may result in BAD CONSEQUENCES.
Let's try this ACE thingy. Just be prepared and not look at it as a failure should Asean has to abolish it later!
1. "MINDEF supports NS deferment if it is "fair": Dr Ng - CNA 30 June 2015
The Ministry of Defence gets many requests for National Service deferment every year, and it will support the requests "which we can explain to the rest of the public, and that the public feels it is fair," says Minister Ng Eng Hen."
Well, I SAID just as much in my posting on this topic. A robust and transparent system to the PUBLIC after the relevant authority TAKE A STAND on who are the sports persons that DESERVE counting their training time as part of their NS obligation unless that time is going to be more than the full 2-year of his NS commitment!
Honestly, after the BMT and whatever 'specialist' or OCF training, there are many things to do that will make the NSmen feel inadequate to perform whatever duties he had been trained on!
2. "Free labour movement could pose big problem for ASEAN Economic Community
When ASEAN debuts its new trade bloc known as the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) by the end of this year, its 10 members could come under the threat of relaxed labour movement, which may worsen the migrant crisis in the Andaman Sea.
BANGKOK: Relaxed movement of labour within the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) could pose "a big problem" to its 10 member countries, when they ring in the much-anticipated ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) this year, warned Vice-Chairman of Thailand's Board of Trade (BOT) Dr Jingjai Hanchanlash during an economic leadership forum in Bangkok on Tuesday (Jun 30)."
Will this ACE thingy work? Yes if ALL member states CAN and WILL accept ALL labour movements within ACE. NO if SOME member states, if not ALL, CANNOT stomach the INFLUX of 'Asean workers from home countries' that create 'pressure' for the 'locals'!!
Lessons for me are:
1. just look at EU and the migrant problem the insistence on the 'right to free movement within EU' is creating or had created in the past, and in the more recently past. While other people's experience may not necessarily translate into OUR experience, suffice to say that when some host nations SIMPLY do not have the infrastructure, the financial strength nor the job vacancies to satisfy the MASSIVE influx of 'Asean migrants', there WILL BE conflicts with the 'displaced LOCALs'!! It is a question of when the conflict will surface and NOT if it will surface!!;
2. will the member states with a large population have unnatural advantages in this 'free labour movement within ACE' premises? Looks like it. If this is a reality in Singapore, the 'New Migrants Integration Program' will have to scale up 100x or 1000x just to reach the 'new migrants who WANT to be integrated!'
Q is: do we have the resources and the process to execute and monitor that it is successfully and effectively 'rolled out'?
3. how to manage the uncontrolled influx, if any? And also the procedure for 'returning the excess free labour movement that are creating tensions and ill wills' in a 'abundant supply vs. limited job opening' situation,
ACE is a good idea. At the same time, is it the time to do this? If the timing is not ripe, GOOD INTENTION may result in BAD CONSEQUENCES.
Let's try this ACE thingy. Just be prepared and not look at it as a failure should Asean has to abolish it later!
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