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As Singapore embraces the post-Covid era, the city-state’s leaders are busy updating rules around hiring foreign workers while tearing down coronavirus restrictions, citing a hypercompetitive battle for global talent.
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All you need to know about Singapore’s new work visas
As Singapore embraces the post-Covid era, the city-state’s leaders are busy updating rules around hiring foreign workers while tearing down coronavirus restrictions, citing a hypercompetitive battle for global talent.
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September 8, 2022 10:49:44 am
Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong speaks during the opening of Tuas Port operated by Port of Singapore Authority (PSA), Singapore, on Sept. 1, 2022. As Singapore embraces the post-Covid era, the city-state’s leaders are busy updating rules around hiring foreign workers while tearing down coronavirus restrictions, citing a hypercompetitive battle for global talent.
Five-year visas and the scrapping of a law against sex between men made headlines, but Singapore has unveiled a series of measures meant to help it vault past other financial hubs and lure talent in next-generation industries like computing, aeronautics and even the arts.
“Singapore is still a global city,” Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said in an address last month, in which he vowed to bolster the national workforce’s skills. “We cannot survive in any other way.”
Here’s everything we know about how Singapore sees the battle for foreign workers playing out, and what it’s doing about it:
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https://indianexpress.com/article/world/singapore-new-work-visa-all-you-want-to-know-8138026/
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