Body in suitcase: Pakistani men were selling tissue paper here

[investor101]

My question is did they come into SG with a work permit to sell tissue?

In Singapore, this is how the employment market is like:

If you put an ad seeking for worker, any tourist is free to apply. We are one of the very very few countries in the world that allows any tourist to apply for jobs here. That is why all my contacts and friends who are in HR say that whenever they put up a job ad, foreigners will usually outnumber locals (PRs and Singaporeans).

Singaporeans need to know that for every job opening here, they are competing not only against fellow citizens, PRs, foreigner workers (S-pass or E-pass). They are also competing against any tourist who happens to be in Singapore and scouring the want ads.

We also issue work permits for PRCs to peddle sex here. So, it is not surprising for us to issue permits for South Asian men to sell tissue paper here. Forged credentials are also easy to obtain in South Asia, and it takes a long time before the relevant authorities can discover that they are fakes. Which by then, some of these South Asians would have already left.

Tourists on social visit pass are not allowed to seek employment here. You statement seems baseless to accuse Singapore is doing it.

The same for the permit to sell tissue paper for South Asia men.

Please provide grounds for the statements, otherwise it will be removed, and warning will be issued.

Regards
Moderator

Tourists are allowed to seek employment here.

Here is an article from the Straits Times, dated 23 Dec 2013.

http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-new...s-20131223

Mr Ramz came to Singapore in March as a tourist but his itinerary did not include visiting the Merlion, Universal Studios or Orchard Road.

Instead, the 29-year-old Filipino had only one goal: to find a job.

He would spend hours scouring employment websites every day, and often had only one meal a day to save money.

Finally, after about four months, he landed a job as a financial analyst at an offshore bank, drawing a monthly salary of $2,800.

- See more at: http://www.straitstimes.com/breaking-new...dlO7i.dpuf
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Here is another article dated 10 March 2014 from the Straits Times:
http://www.stjobs.sg/career-resources/jo...e/a/156408

ARELY a year ago, Ms Lisa Reta arrived in Singapore with only a suitcase in tow. She did not have a job, but she knew she wanted to be here, both to explore the region and to boost her career.

"Being in a regional hub, you get greater exposure than you would in Australia or New Zealand," the 29-year-old Kiwi said.

"There are more opportunities here to get involved in large-scale projects."

So she spent two months on a social visit pass speaking to recruiters and waiting for a contract, while moving from friends' rooms to a rental flat shared with other people.
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So far, the only job I know of that tourists cannot apply is to be maids.

Here is the source: Straits' Times 20 April 2013

http://www.straitstimes.com/the-big-stor...s-20130420

FOREIGNERS found to have arrived in Singapore as tourists to look for work as domestic workers will have their work-permit applications rejected, the Ministry of Manpower (MOM) said.

In a statement to The Straits Times, it added that foreign maids already working here who are found to have entered Singapore as tourists will have their work permits revoked.