Tag: malaysia

One way to attract young foreign professionals.

My letter to The Star’s editor has been published today. While I’m grateful that I got heard, the published version had been through the mincer, over, under and upside down.

Here, I’m reproducing the original letter I sent:

Dear Editor,

With reference to the article “Flexible Permits for Foreign Specialists” (https://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/11/6/nation/2471520&sec=nation), I would like to applaud the Human Resources Ministry for discarding the present system of which foreign skilled knowledge professionals are unable to switch to companies of their choice unless they return to their home countries and reapply with the new company.

While the Malaysia My 2nd Home is a successful programme in attracting foreign retirees to our country, the new ruling by HRM will be able to attract young foreign skilled professionals intending to live permanently here as law-abiding, tax paying residents.

However, due to the present system, many of them face difficulties when the companies that they are interested in working for are hesitant in hiring them due to the arduous and complicated process of applying for new working permits. Ultimately, the difficulty in securing a job in spite of their professional skill and knowledge would leave them no choice but to leave our country. To add salt to injury, their Malaysian partners who are likely to be skilled professionals too would have to leave their country of birth in order to be with their loved ones. As such, the implementation of the new ruling is certainly a step into the right direction in preventing the phenomenon of “brain drain” currently faced by our country.

With skilled foreign professionals soon having the choice of working for companies that are best suited to their skill sets and vice versa, they will be able to stimulate our economy and employment market with local spending and most of all, valuable professional knowledge.

Yours sincerely,
Kimberly Low

Nuffnang on NTV7 !

Got the headup from Nazrul that Nuffnang will be on NTV7 during the 8pm news (thanks Naz!) so I set up my tripod and camera in front of the tele. Settled down to watch Deal or No Deal to kill time. One of the best local shows ever in my opinion, the ads are not too long and the host is awesome. No fake accent, I like. A bit of googling later, I realised that he’s the dj on litefm…the Non! How could I not realise that? Men with good voices usually don’t score much in the looks department but Non is so handsome….. ngehehehe.

Oops digressed.

Right after Deal or No Deal came the 8pm news. The newscaster mentioned Nuffnang and the boo hit the record button but guess what came on the camera display? “Memory card error”. WTF I panicked and screamed unmentionables at the boo (poor thing). So he fumbled to unscrew the camera from the tripod, replaced the memory card and since there was no time to set the damn thing back on tripod, boo had to record the news with his hands.

Hence, the senget clip…

Thank goodness NTV7 has had the news clip archived and I’m able to post it here…

I’m glad that I’ve stuck with Nuffnang from the beginning and there is no doubt in my mind that Nuffnang is the front runner in Asia’s blog advertising scene.