I am not very sure about the exchange rate given by bank but bank always provide lower rate compare money changer.
Normally I am using money changer remittance services to transfer my money into malaysia maybank account. I try ask bank before the remittance service provide by bank is using lower rate and higher services charges.
Remittance charges is always SGD10 per transaction no matter how much money you transfer.

For remittance, why don't you make a trip back to JB during weekends and bank the cash via ATM machine in JB? The maybank is just beside the Johor Customs in City Square.

ANy advice for a job seeker here??

Really nice advice... 
You also from Ipoh ?

I have a Bachelor Degree in International Business Administration. Have been working in an Horticultural company for more than 6 year, as a IT HOD, Production Manager, etc and earning RM4k/ month.

What are the chances to apply for jobs in S'pore?

Thinking of getting into the Banking Industry in S'pore, at least if i planning to go back to Malaysia, still manage to get bank jobs.

Hi,
I'm about to accept a job there.

May I know if there are 3 rooms flat/apartments for rent there? My office will be at Keppel Road, near Sentosa.

I wish to know the rate and location too. Thanks.

But normally the big corporation positions are filled around this time?

And I heard that basically you have to have 3 year experience to be considered since you are non-Singaporean because they want local people who don't need any housing allowances.

How true is that?

I have a few friends working in Singapore. Some of them expressed their unsatisfaction. There are always a double-standard policy in Singapore companies, where salary range of Singaporean staff is always higher than Malaysian (at least 20% higher). While most of Singaporeans do not like difficult tasks (physically mainly), they would push all these to Malaysians. For example, my friend has a colleague who has the same level of experience, position and qualification. But my friend is the one who were asked to do the tasks that normally people don't like to do, such as site inspection, market survey, information collection, etc. I heard his salary is lower than his colleague.
This is a norm in all countries, including Malaysia. Just ask yourselves, what do you find the staff in your company who come from a third world country which is lower than your country? However, I think there is exceptional case that Singapore companies treat their staff equally.

SMU graduates get jobs faster, paid higher
ChannelNewsAsia: 11 May 2008 2146 hrs

SINGAPORE: Singapore Management University (SMU) graduates are finding better paying jobs and getting employed sooner, despite the Class of 2007 being 84 percent bigger than the 2006 cohort.

Three-quarters of them found jobs even before graduation, while the remainder secured employment within six months.

Graduates with cum laude degrees, or degrees with distinction, started with an average pay of $3,500 - which is $200 more than what the 2006 cohort got.

69 graduates also landed high-flying jobs that paid between $4,000 and $10,000 a month.

The overall starting pay for the Class of 2007 rose by 6.7 percent to $3,040 from $2,850 for the Class of 2006.

The data are from a survey of 618 respondents.

guys... need your help... could you give me a list of websites where I can search for rooms/HDB units in Singapore? I'm having a tough time searching for one

Guys, anybody knows bout this?

1.  CPF retirement age: I was told the retirement age is at 80 yrs old!! Is it true? Meaning either PR/Citizen there either survive until 80 to enjoy their CPR or just leave it for next generation, If any.

2.  Even if u use the CPF to pay house instalment you still need to replenish it??

kindly enlighten me.

Foreigners need Singapore, but Singapore needs them more.
Saturday, April 28, 2007

This letter which appeared in the Today newspaper is typical of the attitude of Singaporean heartlanders* when it concerns professional immigrants (or "foreign talent" as the govt likes to call them).

* in Malaysia-speak - heartlander is similar to "kampung / Jinjang / ulu / ah beng-ah lian."

Heartlanders are pissed off about foreign talent because:

1. Foreign talents are taking jobs away from Singaporeans. They help themselves to the economic opportunities in Singapore, but...

2. ... they decline to become citizens, preferring instead to remain PRs (Permanent Residents) or WPs (Work Permits)....

3. ...because they don't want to shoulder an equal burden for the sustenance of Singapore in the form of national service.

Let me try to enlighten Singaporeans who are still oblivious to their 'situation'... or predicament as I'd call it.

Foreigners create jobs in Singapore. They take up jobs which wouldn't exist in the first place if they weren't there. Howzat, you ask?

Singapore has a shrinking local population. They don't breed enough to replace themselves. What follows is a dwindling population that gets older and older, and less and less productive. Without foreigners to supply the additional hands and wallets, many jobs wouldn't exist. Simply because there would be no critical mass in terms of talent (pool of people of sufficient nationalities, cultures and skills to employ from) and market (greater demand for goods and services) to create those jobs in the first place. Foreign talent is like foreign investment. They bring resources along with them to Singapore, and the economic multiplier works its magic. Without foreigners, Singaporeans are deluding themselves if they think that the big MNCs, international trade, tourists and high value industries would have been there anyway.

Singaporeans cannot keep fantasising that they have somehow singlehandedly produced this grand economic buffet, and foreigners are only now coming at the closing stages to tuck in to it. The Singapore economy is a product of both Singaporean and foreign hands and both parties partake equitably from it. Both reap only what they themselves have sown.

As for national service... think of it this way. Singaporeans spend a couple of years doing it. After which they think they are Jesus Christ, having "sacrificed and suffered" for all mankind. Wake up and smell the roses. Foreign talent uproot themselves from their homes, families and everything dear to them... for tens of years (if not permanently) to come to Singapore. And in the process, they expose themselves to the unestimable vagaries and hardships of migration and take up jobs that Singaporeans are unwilling to do, or are unable to do in sufficient numbers. That is the migrant's sacrifice for Singapore. If you ask me, doing a couple years of army training at a camp 30 minutes away from their HDB homes via MRT or feeder bus - pales in the harsh light of comparison. Some foreigners, like the Taiwanese and Koreans have put in their years of national service... albeit in a country other than Singapore. How does one reconcile that?

In addition, Singaporeans themselves migrate overseas in large numbers, and usually at the most productive stage of their lives (economically and biologically). This is an issue which heartlanders seem to ignore... choosing instead to harp on 'unreliable' PRs / WPs instead of questioning 'disloyal' citizens. Who do they think values Singapore more? PRs and WPs who are actually there on the island or citizens who are somewhere else? Who's paying Singapore taxes? Who's standing in front of their faces right now, pissing them off, stepping up to be counted where it matters?

Lastly, former Indonesian President Habibie once said that Singapore is a little red dot in a sea of green. Singapore depends on migrants from other countries to survive. That is a fact of life. In many ways, the dependency is largely reciprocal. Singapore needs foreign skills and labour to maintain it's affluence and way of life. Foreigners need Singapore to improve their standards of living.

But at the end of the day, though Singaporeans may only admit it within the deepest recesses of their minds, they know that the relationship is not equal. Without foreigners, Singapore disappears into oblivion. Without Singapore, foreigners simply go elsewhere. They will only keep coming to Singapore and keep its economic wheel turning, if Singapore manages to keep itself attractive to them. Like for foreign investment, one of the main attractions is the freedom to come and go.

Foreigners need Singapore, but Singapore needs them more. Stop b1tching and live with it.

So do u guys like the lifestyle in Singapore? Feel like going there to work when I graduate..

Just that you have to know, Singapore's salary is lower compare to Malaysia.

Hi all, is it illegal to bring in vegies or meat(preserved meat, canned food) into S'pore? 
What's the max amount  that we can bring in then?

What's the max amount of alcoholic drinks that we can we bring out fr S'pore?

Dear Seantantang, not all ppl got time to waste on the internet, which may take less than few minutes to get the answer if lucky, but may take few hours to get the answers if unlucky.

So one alternative is to ask those ppl who may directly knows the answer.

And further, i beliv the question was directed to ppl who knows the answer and intend to share it.  So for those who dun dun knows or knows but dun ntend to share, it was not for u.  Please dun discourage ppl to share info and ask questions in this forum.  More nfo feeding to this forum is healthy.

To all those asking questions like "what is the chances?" and "how much can I make?" I don't understand why you won't just try and apply? A lot of the the answers will depend on your industry, the company you apply to, your negotiation skill, your knowledge and experience, your personality, your timing, etc etc.

There's absolutely nothing wrong for you to apply? Unless somebody can share why he/she wouldn't just try to apply? It will only take 10 minutes to edit your resume and send it out.

As for potential salary, don't base your decision on what others are making, you will never be happy. Use that as a guide, but for the most part, you should factor the costs of living in singapore and derive a salary which can sustain your lifestyle similar or better than your lifestyle in Malaysia. If it is more than the so-called market rates, no worries, just apply. Because, if you have to downgrade your quality of life just to work here in singapore, then what is the point? For example, if you are living in a condo with a nice gym and pool which you use at least 3 times a week, eating out at chilli's a few times a month, but in singapore, you'd have to live in a store room in the red light district eating cup noodles every day. What is the point in that?

Seantang, appreciate for e Custom link but somehow certain description on e custom link is none of layman term such as fortified, fermented, still wine. Even if we're to bring in rice dumpling during this festive "Duan Wu Jie", dumpling rice are not allowed to bring in to SG as well even though the link given does not specifically mentioned on this.

apply for the EP first, then get a signed document stating you'd finished your course and graduated successfully from your University.

I'm staying near Marine Parade, at the East side of SG but I'm working at Jurong East =.=" Wake up at 5am, come out at 6am, reach office at 9am, reach home at 9pm

I believe that's life in SG. Been here for almost a month, the 4th week of my new job here after island hopping from PG to SG. Last time i used to wake up at 730am, read newspaper, out 8am and reach office 815am. Now, wake up 645am, out 705am and reach office 8am. Quite a "drastic" change i would say, at least for me.

Me too miss the interaction amongs old colleagues...but have to get use to new life here.

Cheers.