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Not surprising. Many of these special deal cruise packages peddled by third party agencies are steeply discounted, so there is bound to be a catch somewhere. The agencies have probably covered their legal liabilities through some fine print clause somewhere in the contract they signed...

There is some circumstantial evidence supporting your observations on Israel (Jews) - The Israelis seem to have come to the conclusion that they can no longer just hide behind the US and cruise along, that's why recently for the past few years there has been a flurry of activities to try and...

Actually a lot of people seem to have this impression that the west (NATO) is very smart in stirring shit and making Russia and Ukraine go to war while they sit behind the scenes watching a free show and making side income from the defense industry. That is certainly not the case. This war has...

A more accurate way to put this is it depends on your own strengths and weaknesses, your character and where you aspire to land. You can be very ambitious and yet pursue a specialist path as well. Most people usually start out by wanting to be a generalist then move up to be some sort of...

For most careers, specialists and generalists operate in parallel. The former moves up the knowledge ladder while the latter develops management skills. Pay wise it is hard to generalize as different jobs have different dynamics, but generally speaking they shouldn't differ too much provided...

Not sure, from the looks of it this is an ad for a NTUC security officer conversion course. Even so, it makes more sense to puff up potential salaries instead of understating them. I'm not sure what is the rationale behind this counter intuitive approach.

Yar, it's a very strange way to advertise. Price then people use *from*, pay people will use *up to*, not sure which bugger from NTUC put up this ad.

I don't know why NTUC chose to frame salary in this way. Most recruitment ads quote the highest salaries with an "up to" prefix, but NTUC use "from" implying minimum salary instead. I suspect the $1,839 is just the basic salary, there is usually another few hundred dollars more in the form of...

Sounds really immature. Is there really a need to go through all this emotional drama? I've met so many people who have either migrated, spent most of their time in another country as PR or work as global nomads almost never returning to their home country. Not one of them as dramatic as this...

This guy is making it sound as if all of America's problems are the result of Trump and his supporters. The challenges facing the US are systemic across all political parties and cuts across race, religion and SES. Blaming only Trump and supporters for whatever ills that befall US is juvenile...

Wow, so you have been unemployed for 18 years!? Considering your total earnings before retrenchment was only $1.2M, I reckon your savings would amount to only $600k tops? How did you survive till now? Was it through smart investments?

True to a certain extent. Malay leadership under the UMNO and Barisan National has indeed provided an anchor of social stability during the early turbulent days which allowed Malaysia to rapidly develop into a a relatively prosperous country while the rest of the ASEAN non-Singapore countries...

This article reports no actual facts except quoting two individuals opining that Marcos might seek a more balanced relationship between China and US, yet the headline reports such opinions as if they are a factual development. The first half basically just regurgitates whatever a Richard...

If you need to go on a kopitiam forum to seek advice, then chances are you are in no position to be investing large sums of money overseas in the first place.

Not really, most of Suzuki's Indian operations are conducted through Maruti Suzuki, an Indian company which Suzuki took a substantial but minority stake. Maruti Suzuki is an Indian listed and locally run company in its daily operations while Suzuki makes money through its shareholdings, license...

It's not just the auto industry, foreign investors in most industries in India face the same problem. The challenge with the Indian market is although it offers great potential in theory, the government has a tendency to start soliciting money in all sorts of direct and indirect ways the moment...

It's kind of interesting that the Indian Brahmos and Taiwanese Hsiung Feng III missile which are both the subjects of incessant boasting by their respective media end up making a fool of themselves through supposed misfiring. One landed in Pakistan, the other hit its own fishing boat. In both...

I think Singaporeans need to move away from this pro-China vs pro-US mindset, this is a very Toys R' Us mentality and serves as nothing more than an emotional declaration. The correct way to see the whole G2 rivalry is to see pro-XX as an outcome rather than an emotional belonging. You can be...

I had a couple of friends who flew SQ recently and they have also reported a mediocre service experience. One was told by the cabin crew they ran out of orange juice after he asked for a second helping during lunch while the other was told by cabin crew that nowadays business class does not even...

This is really an odd piece and I'm not even sure what exactly the Germans are trying to express here. Any passenger aircraft can also travel from Germany to Singapore in less than a day, so why is this branded as some sort of achievement!? They key question is can you power project from afar...