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Spotted by SPUG forummers on the Straits Times site, this article:
Jan 31, 2008
6 in 10 new jobs go to foreigners
By Goh Chin Lian
SIX in ten jobs created last year went to foreigners, the first time in at least six years that their share was larger than locals.
This comes at a time when job creation is at a record high, and unemployment and retrenchment at record lows...
...was changed to:
Jan 31, 2008
S'pore adds record number of jobs in 2007, a third filled by foreigners
By Goh Chin Lian
BOOSTED by a strong economy, Singapore created a record-busting number of jobs last year - with a third of them going to foreigners because there were just not enough locals to fill them.
Amid strong hiring in the services sector, unemployment also fell to a 10-year, prompting employers to turn to foreigners for six in ten of these jobs, up from five in ten the previous year...
(Underlining done by me)
Must be type too fast, then type salah. So have to change. Like change from a simple headline about the high number of jobs going to foreigners, to a rah-rah headline reminding everyone we had a record number of jobs in 2007.
I still don't know how 6-in-10 equals one third though. But I dropped C Maths at A Levels, so I missed out on the Singapore Mainstream Media Math module.
