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SINGAPORE: Acting Minister for Manpower Tan Chuan-Jin said the government's focus is to look after the interest of all working Singaporeans.

SINGAPORE: As the government continues to tighten quotas on foreign workers, developers said they expect higher costs and project delays.

SINGAPORE: Singapore's Ministry of Trade and Industry said a complete freeze in foreign worker growth will result in deep, structural job mismatches. This imbalance in the labour market may happen if the focus was only on increasing the country's resident labour force participation rate.

SINGAPORE: Massive immigration of unskilled and semi-skilled workers may cause productivity to stagnate. That is the view of an economist speaking at the Economic Society of Singapore forum on the Population White Paper.

ABOUT 70,000 mid-skilled foreign workers in Singapore, including Indians, are at risk of not having their employment passes renewed under a new policy which aims to create a level playing field for Singaporeans, Press Trust of India quoted a media report as saying.

When a new tiered system for approving S Passes is introduced in July, about 70,000 foreign workers are at risk of not having their S Passes renewed when they expire.

Singapore is set to halve the number of S Pass holders come 1 July 2013.

SINGAPORE - Foreign worker levies will rise by an average of $50 to $160 monthly per worker by 2015.