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Singapore is overregulated and it's killing us!

enterprise2

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In Singapore, everything also need license, approvals, certification.. Etc etc. U don't see all these red tape in other countries. Granted there is a downside to lax regulation but the amount of regulation we have here is ridiculous. It's killing the SMEs, it's sapping the strength of the innovators, the entrepreneurs and it's certainly making life miserable for everyone.
Maybe we should do like our neighbours ' Singapore Boleh?
 

Leongsam

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The rest of the world thinks otherwise. It ranks Singapore the best place in the world!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index#Doing_business_2014
[h=2]Doing business 2014[edit][/h]Doing Business 2014 covers regulations measured from June 2012 through May 2013 in 189 economies. The report marks the 11th edition of the Doing Business series.

  • Singapore is the first economy of the global ranking followed by Hong Kong SAR, New Zealand, the United States, Denmark, Malaysia, South Korea, Georgia, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

  • For the first time data about Libya, Myanmar, San Marino, and South Sudan were collected.

  • 114 economies adopted 238 regulatory reforms in 2012/13 (the reforms increased of 18% compared to the previous year).

  • 9 of the 20 economies that reduced the distance with the regulatory frontier the most (since 2009s) are located in Sub-Saharan Africa.
 

Kuailan

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In Singapore, everything also need license, approvals, certification.. Etc etc. U don't see all these red tape in other countries. Granted there is a downside to lax regulation but the amount of regulation we have here is ridiculous. It's killing the SMEs, it's sapping the strength of the innovators, the entrepreneurs and it's certainly making life miserable for everyone.
Maybe we should do like our neighbours ' Singapore Boleh?

Fully agreed over regulated like living in an ARMY camp!

Every thing is licence and money money every where!! that our pappy!!
Worst than gangsters everything is protection money!!
 

winnipegjets

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The rest of the world thinks otherwise. It ranks Singapore the best place in the world!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index#Doing_business_2014
[h=2]Doing business 2014[edit][/h]Doing Business 2014 covers regulations measured from June 2012 through May 2013 in 189 economies. The report marks the 11th edition of the Doing Business series.

  • Singapore is the first economy of the global ranking followed by Hong Kong SAR, New Zealand, the United States, Denmark, Malaysia, South Korea, Georgia, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

  • For the first time data about Libya, Myanmar, San Marino, and South Sudan were collected.

  • 114 economies adopted 238 regulatory reforms in 2012/13 (the reforms increased of 18% compared to the previous year).

  • 9 of the 20 economies that reduced the distance with the regulatory frontier the most (since 2009s) are located in Sub-Saharan Africa.

In sinkapore, the regulations are directed at sinkees. Sinkapore government kowtows to foreign entities, be in people or business.
 

winnipegjets

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In Singapore, everything also need license, approvals, certification.. Etc etc. U don't see all these red tape in other countries. Granted there is a downside to lax regulation but the amount of regulation we have here is ridiculous. It's killing the SMEs, it's sapping the strength of the innovators, the entrepreneurs and it's certainly making life miserable for everyone.
Maybe we should do like our neighbours ' Singapore Boleh?

That's why the poor is destined to be poor forever. In other countries, the poor can just set up small business with little capital, like set up a street food stall. To be a hawker here, have to pay high rent, pass this test and that test, and that pay through the nose for other fees. Before you start, you are already at least $10k in the hole. How can a poor man climb up through entrepreneurship?
 

enterprise2

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The rest of the world thinks otherwise. It ranks Singapore the best place in the world!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index#Doing_business_2014
[h=2]Doing business 2014[edit][/h]Doing Business 2014 covers regulations measured from June 2012 through May 2013 in 189 economies. The report marks the 11th edition of the Doing Business series.

  • Singapore is the first economy of the global ranking followed by Hong Kong SAR, New Zealand, the United States, Denmark, Malaysia, South Korea, Georgia, Norway, and the United Kingdom.

  • For the first time data about Libya, Myanmar, San Marino, and South Sudan were collected.

  • 114 economies adopted 238 regulatory reforms in 2012/13 (the reforms increased of 18% compared to the previous year).

  • 9 of the 20 economies that reduced the distance with the regulatory frontier the most (since 2009s) are located in Sub-Saharan Africa.

As usual u try to confuse the issue. U talking apple when I am talking orange! Of course MNCs like it here, they get tax breaks and they get preferential treatment. Local SMEs got nobody to help them and sometimes the garment will even help the GLCs to take biz away from them!
 

johnny333

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That's why the poor is destined to be poor forever. In other countries, the poor can just set up small business with little capital, like set up a street food stall. To be a hawker here, have to pay high rent, pass this test and that test, and that pay through the nose for other fees. Before you start, you are already at least $10k in the hole. How can a poor man climb up through entrepreneurship?

They also can also survive on much less business because things are more affordable. In Spore if you don't do enough bizness you'll have problems
 

eatshitndie

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not true. sg is under-regulated. for example, mrt escalators need speed regulators depending on traffic flow. :p
 

Leongsam

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not true. sg is under-regulated. for example, mrt escalators need speed regulators depending on traffic flow. :p


Singaporeans are confused cookies. They complain about regulations but then demand government intervention whenever something offends their senses.
 

mojito

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Singaporeans are confused cookies. They complain about regulations but then demand government intervention whenever something offends their senses.

There are no contradictions. Sinkies simply want someone other than the PAP to set the rules.
 

Leongsam

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There are no contradictions. Sinkies simply want someone other than the PAP to set the rules.

If you think that WP rules are going to be better than PAP rules, you're living in dreamland.
 
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