At the behest of a friend, I’m putting up this post which is about a career that’s available with SingHealth and/or SGH. 
(I don’t want to blow my own trumpet but I’ve been very successful in matching employers and potential employees in at least three instances and would be happy to continue this – all for no more than a word of thanks!)
Anyway [...]

One of my favourite email chain letters must be the one claiming that the Hokkeins — who come from the southern China province of Fujian — are the descendants of the Tang Dynasty.
The email asserted that when the Tang Dynasty collapsed, the people from that dynasty fled South and sought refuge in the Hokkien ( Fujian ) province.
“Hence, Hokkiens [...]

Say what you like, but I think the Yanks are party poopers of the worst sort.
Take what the United States has been doing in recent weeks.
First sale of arms to Taiwan, which was and always will be a part of China whatever the Taipeh Government thinks.
Second, President Obama receiving the exiled Dalai Lama in Washington; [...]

Won’t you hate to be in the shoes of Mr Liew Mun Leong (left), the usually stern-faced boss of the CapitaLand Group which on Jan 18, 2010 announced that CapitaLand is acquiring a 100 per cent stake in property investment holding company Orient Overseas Developments for a ginormous US$2.2 billion (S$3.06 billion).
Cheers all round as both Mr Liew [...]

and get with it, dear fellow Singaporeans!
The following is an extract from asia! Magazine’s website http://www.theasiamag.com/ and written by Lee Han Shih the founder, publisher and editor who has Mr Lee Kong Chian and Mr Tan Kah Kee as his paternal grandfather and maternal grreat grandfather respectively. 
“Westerners are attracted to China for one reason: its economy, [...]

One small step for Singapore, one giant step for CapitaLand: that is what it means when its indirect wholly owned subsidiary CapitaLand China Holdings (CCH) acquires a 100 per cent stake in property investment holding company Orient Overseas Developments for a ginormous US$2.2 billion (S$3.06 billion).
Under this deal, announced on Monday, Jan 18, CCH will acquire a [...]

Learn simple Chinese, the Singapore way:
沒錢的時候，養豬；有錢的時候，養狗。
When without money, keep pigs;
When have money, keep dogs.
沒錢的時候，在家裡吃野菜；有錢的時候，在酒店吃野菜。
When without money, eat at home with wife;
When have money, dine in fine restaurant.
沒錢的時候，在馬路上騎自行車；有錢的時候，在客廳裡騎自行車。
When without money, ride bicycle;
When have money, ride exercise machine. 
  
沒錢的時候,想結婚；有錢的時候,想離婚。
When without money, wish to get married;
When have money, wish to get divorced.
沒錢的時候,老婆兼秘書；有錢的時候,秘書兼老婆。
When without money, wife becomes secretary;
When have money, [...]

My sister Daffy loves dabbling in ancient things and then, given half a chance, will add a modern twist to the old things. For her own use or as gifts to me and her very close friends. Most of the jade earrings I own and wear are from her, each pair painstakingly put together, each pair [...]

@ is usually a short form for “at” but in the case of @ Gallery Suites boutique hotel housed in a 1933 fully restored heritage building on Hengshan Lu (known during the early concession period as the “Champs Elysees of Shanghai”), “@” stands for “art”.
The 39-suite hotel (each suite is larger than 50 sq m) opened in March 2009. [...]

As someone who has received constant jibes from people who think they speak better Putonghua than me, I can empathise with how badly the new chief executive of Macau, Fernando Chui Sai On, must feel to have his inaugural oath delivered in Putonghua panned by some Internet jokers.
Although the jokers are probably not as many as the South China [...]

… why not Chinese Singaporeans?
It’s one of those questions that riles me time and again.
A Singaporean Peranakan friend told me the other day that she didn’t understand why our Government pays so much attention to the very small minority who kicks up a huge fuss disproportionate to their number — about themselves or their children [...]

Like Ismail Kassim, another Singaporean, Shirley Tong — who recently retired from GP Industries – has been investing good time and money to improve her knowledge of the Chinese language. Here she shares about the course she is taking and the reasons why:
My Chinese course is organised by the NUS Extension, a business unit of NUS Enterprise.  The [...]

SGX-listed CapitaLand’s wholly-owned serviced residence business unit, The Ascott Limited (Ascott), is celebrating the opening of its fifth serviced residence — Ascott Raffles City Beijing –in Beijing with special promotional rates from RMB 888 per day for a one-bedroom premier apartment to RMB 1,588 per day for a two-bedroom executive apartment.
This is the first time [...]

SGX-listed Asia Pacific Breweries has made fresh management appointments at its brewing assets in China.
As of Nov 16, APB’s Shanghai Asia Pacific Brewery Co. Ltd has been given a new general manager.

Mr Samson Wong — who has more than 11 years’ experience in the brewing industry holding various positions in Hong Kong and Macau — will be responsible for [...]

Every few years, Singaporeans, or to be more precise, Chinese Singaporeans go into paroxyms of anguish over being forced to learn Chinese as children by the country’s government education policy.
With no blush of shame, many will reveal – even revel about — how bad they were, and still arem in Chinese. Indeed, having done badly in Chinese but [...]