No stopping talent from heading south


WE have known for the longest time that Singapore has been a magnet for Malaysian talent, and it does not look like the brain drain is going to stop anytime soon.

Recently, news broke that Singapore is poaching our soon-to-graduate medical doctors by offering them an annual salary of S$110,000. That works out to over S$9,000 (RM27,990) a month.

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