Its okay. Then lets make life harder for SG. Play the ILS card. Keep building skyscrapers in Pasir Gudang. Be it for residential or even a giant monument also can .

Maybe Singapore thought that by using desalination they can eventually be free from the need to import water from Johor. In a way that's possible, but I think that is a huge blunder on their part. Because they would have to depend more on energy imports instead to power their desalination plants.

I would not be surprised if SG is the first ASEAN state to become nuclear capable.

It's the inevitable future.

Even Tunku Abdul Rahman, our first prime minister, was conned into agreeing to merge with Singapore:



Talking about 2.2 to 2.3 to 3.0 means you don't understand Singapore's monetary policy lah. They use exchange rate policy, not interest-rate monetary policy like the rest of the world.

Why Singapore’s Central Bank Has No Key Rate

Haha. That would be a big joke. A single accident would wipe out the city state.

The means is simply the means, but we are talking about the end result

MAS's objective has always been to push the rate down

If they let it run free, it'll probably be higher than it is today - what does that say about the attractiveness of their economy vs ours?

On a smaller scale perhaps, pushed out to one of the islands around Jurong. An accident isn't strictly de rigeur when it comes to nuclear power you know.

It'll come sooner or later. Possibly in our lifetime, perhaps not.

This post has been edited by agent sawyer: Mar 3 2019, 03:24 AM

No, they have no control over interest rates. Their intention is to control inflation, that's all. They remove Singapore dollars from the economy by pushing it up in order to reduce its availability for their people to spend.

They are well known to be a attraction for corporate tax avoidance activities. Profits from neighbouring countries which should be rightly be taxed locally are siphoned off to be taxed very lowly by them instead.

Our corporate tax is just as low and we can get "dirty things done dirt cheap" better than them

So why does Singapore attract FDI and not us? Hmm... maybe because this is not the sole or even major factor in their success...

This post has been edited by agent sawyer: Mar 3 2019, 03:44 AM

Haha. You are indeed quite ignorant about them. On the surface it looks like their corporate tax rates are not much lower than us. But multinational companies get special deals with them if offshore profits are transferred to Singapore instead. How low? Less than 1% also possible.

Well we can give Lynas practically 0% deal, who wins

You can even equate an investment incentive of a genuine investor with transfer pricing activity? Why are you trying so hard to protect Singapore's morally wrong behaviour of helping others to avoid paying taxes in the countries that generated the profits?

We have quite a few tax goodies too e.g MSC status, labuan

One of my previous comps also set up biz in msia to fully exploit this, once the term expired, they just scale down and got rid major chunk of the employees over here and shift back to Singapore.

That's suicide. Just take down nuclear station and their land will be contaminated for thousands of years

They are not so stupid. Rather bribe Indonesia to have it on Batam island or further and drag power lines to supply Singapore.

Nobody so stupid to place a ticking time bomb in a such small land mass country

Where u get this info from ?? 1% that's super low

On another note, its their local papers drawing it up

i have CNA on my facebook, everyday its water this and that

here? we worrying about semenyih

It is really too simplistic to say SG succeed by lowering its tax rates n all corporates will put HQ there.

How abt Labuan?

The sad truth is Malaysians all dun want to work. Only want tongkat.

Our papers had never reported the amount of money SG spent in water treatment plants in johor. The 1st water treatment plant had been handed over to Johor in 2011.

Talk to any Johorians esp those in JB n they will tell you that water rationing is not as common as in other parts of MY.

Actually, really think it is a complete waste of time for us to discuss water.

What we need is to up our own game which obviously is more difficult than just playing politics.

Same same lah, Tun playing up water issue to distract from our domestic issues, SG also happy to play it up to district from their domestic issues.