Canon e il cambio Euro-Dollaro (di Singapore) #2

Confrontiamo invece la 50D appena uscita !

Al cambio fanno 1391€ + sconto del negoziante

Su pixmania costa tremendamente di + !!!!

Canon e il cambio Euro-Dollaro (di Singapore)

Dal sito ufficiale Canon.sg

Al cambio odierno..

Su pixmania.it lo stesso pacchetto costa 40€ di meno !!!

Ecco quanto ne sapevano…

A Singapore e' successo anche questo !

La popolazione di Singapore sale a 4,8 Milioni

SINGAPORE: Singapore’s population hit 4.84 million in June this year, marking a 5.5 per cent increase from a year before. The figure is buoyed by an increasing number of foreigners in the country, boosted by strong economic growth over the past few years.

The number of non-residents grew by 19 per cent, while the resident population went up by a mere one per cent.

The National Population Secretariat said foreigners increasingly view Singapore as an attractive place to relocate.

Most come from neighbouring Asian countries.

There are also more new Permanent Residents (PRs) and citizens. In the first half of this year, 34,800 were granted PRs. That’s up by some 20 per cent from the same period last year.

Meanwhile, 9,600 were granted citizenship, up by some 30 per cent, compared to the year before.

And nearly seven in 10 new PRs aged 20 and above had post-secondary qualifications.

Moving forward, the Secretariat said integration would be a key challenge.

It added that the government will also continue to exercise discretion and facilitate the naturalisation of foreigners who can add value and contribute to Singapore socially and economically.

Roy Quek, director, National Population Secretariat, said: “Integration is not just about what the government can do because the government is limited in terms of its ability to reach out to everyone. Integration happens all the time, in our schools at the workplace, in our local community, in the neighbourhoods.”

Mr Quek added that a strong non-resident presence in Singapore is also testament to the country’s good growth.

“In a way it’s a compliment to Singapore that we have a place where others want to come to, that we have economic opportunities, we have enough jobs not just for locals but also for people who are willing to come in to spend time here.

“So the key is not to look at it as competition for jobs but adding value to Singapore’s economy and ultimately contributing to a better life for all of us in Singapore,” he said.

The number of Singaporeans grew to 3.16 million due to the higher number of citizen babies and more PRs taking up citizenship.

There were some 18,000 births registered in the first half of this year, slightly higher than the numbers registered the same period last year.

So while Singapore is on track for another historic high fertility rate, the biggest concern is still about making babies.

The country’s total fertility rate was 1.29 in 2007, far below the replacement level of 2.1.

Mr Quek said: “Of course, it’s going to be an uphill task but we are hopeful at least of crossing the 1.3 level at some point in the future.”

As for overseas Singaporeans, more are making their homes abroad either for work or study.

As of June 2008, there’re about 153,500 overseas Singaporeans compared to 147,500 a year ago.

The countries with a high concentration of overseas Singaporeans are Australia, the UK, US and China.

For a full list of the statistics, you can log on to www.nps.gov.sg. - CNA/vm

Ho fatto un giro lungo il circuito ieri sera…

…e pare che la rigorosa macchina organizzativa singaporiana si sia dimenticata di chiudere ai poveri ticketless come me questo punto proprio alla fine del rettilineo del Padang dove c’è quella chicane ad M… Niente male !

Tra l’altro c’era anche poca gente nonostante fossero le 8 di sera e a quell’ora a Boat Quay..li dietro..c’è un bel via vai tra i locali lungo il fiume..

Comunque ecco i video che ho fatto

Distanza tra me e il circuito ? Non più di 10 metri, tanto che ho pensato che se qualcuno si fosse schiantato in fondo al rettilineo di sicuro mi sarebbero arrivati addosso i detriti..

McDonald e il cambio Euro-Dollaro(di Singapore)

Al cambio odierno fanno 2 Euro e 20 centesimi

Hanno preso il coccodrillo a Pasir Ris !

TRAPPED AND… …SNAPPED
Pasir Ris crocodile caught on fishing line

NO MORE SWIMS FOR HIM: Mr Rizhal at Sungei Tampines, where the crocodile was caught.

PICTURES: COURTESY OF MUHAMMAD RIZHAL SENIN

PICTURE THIS: Mr Rizhal took a shot of his friends taking photos of the crocodile.

SEEING is believing.

Especially for Mr Muhd Rizhal Senin, who loves to swim in the cool waters of Sungei Tampines off Pasir Ris beach.

For the last five years, he has been brushing off talk from others that there were crocodiles spotted in that area.

Not even the recent sighting - which was captured in a photo and inspired a hunt by the authorities - rattled him.

That was until early Sunday morning - when one appeared right before his eyes.

Mr Rizhal was riding his mountain bike home in the wee hours of the morning from Pasir Ris beach when he spotted some of his friends struggling with an animal on the boardwalk over Sungei Tampines, near the beach.

1m long

The 30-year-old decided to check it out and, to his surprise, it was a metre-long crocodile caught on a line by two anglers.

Mr Rizhal said: ‘Both of them were struggling with the crocodile and trying to hold it down. I tried to help, even though I was quite afraid. We used scotch-tape and some rope to tie up the crocodile’s mouth and feet.

‘The skin was quite rough and felt quite strange.’

Even though it looked small, the men believe that this was the same crocodile spotted by retiree Mr Ong Wee Lee two weeks ago at a mangrove swamp near Pasir Ris beach.

Mr Ong’s daughter took a photo of it and the reptile quickly crawled back into the water when the camera flash went off.

The sighting of this crocodile sparked off a hunt, albeit an unsuccessful one, by national water agency PUB and the National Parks Board then.

Mr Rizhal said he called the police, who took the tied-up crocodile away.

He added that one of his friends had accidentally snared the crocodile by the leg while reeling his line in.

They were there to catch seabass, garoupas and tilapia fish, and hauling in a crocodile was definitely not what they had expected.

Mr Rizhal said: ‘They (his friends) were so shocked that I had to call the police for them. For a while, they just sat on the ground, stunned.’

His friends couldn’t be contacted for an interview.

It is not difficult to see why the crocodile will make that swamp home - it was teeming with schools of tilapia fish when The New Paper was there yesterday afternoon.

For Mr Rizhal, the sight of the crocodile there meant only one thing - the end of his weekly swim in that swamp.

He had always disregarded anglers there who warned him about crocodiles.

Mr Rizhal, who is married with three children aged 2 to 6, also picks mussels in the swamp to sell or to eat.

He said: ‘After seeing the crocodile, I am not going to swim here anymore. I don’t think it’s safe and I don’t want to risk my life.’

One angler, who wanted to be known only as Imran, said he has not seen crocodiles there before.

‘But I am not taking any chances too. I will just fish from the bridge. And no way am I going to swim in these waters,’ he said.

The police confirmed that a crocodile was handed to them on Sunday morning.

They said that the crocodile has been transferred to a private company that deals with such animals.

The public can call the PUB 24-hour hotline at 1800-284-6600 if they spot crocodiles in rivers or reservoirs.

http://newpaper.asia1.com.sg/news/st…73772,00.html?

National Day Rally 2008

No, non e’ una corsa di macchine..

E’ il discorso del Primo Ministro di Singapore in occasione del National Day.

Un momento x fare il punto della situazione e tracciare una linea x il futuro.

Sono rimasto incollato 2 ore davanti alla tv (non si poteva vedere comunque altro..era in diretta bulgara su tutti i canali..) e quest’uomo mi ha entusiasmato.

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/nationalday/

Ok diciamo che la liberta’ di espressione non e’ la sua prima priorita’, ma dice di farlo nell’interesse e nella salvaguardia dell’unita’ nazionale.
Per come sono andate le cose fino ad ora gli si puo’ solo credere. E si capisce anche xche’ una citta’ stato grande quanto una citta’ media e sconosciuta della vicina Cina sia una potenza economica di primissimo livello.

Un primo ministro (in camicia fuori dai pantaloni !) che ha parlato 2 ore a braccio, di argomenti diversi tra loro, dalla politica, all’economia, alla vita familiare, alle buone maniere, alle nuove tecnologie (memorabile quando ha preso il suo cellulare, ha fatto partire il video e ha mandato in streaming sul suo sito quello che stava filmando col suo cellulare !!!), ha spiegato con grafici e battute quello che Singapore deve o non deve fare in maniera chiara e precisa..

Mi si dira’: beh un primo ministro che fa battute e parla continuamente di questo e di quello ce l’abbiamo anche in Italia. Si con una bella differenza: Lee Hsieng Loong racconta aneddoti di vita vissuta, mostra umilta’, non e’ un supereroe…il nostro (vostro) fa battute vecchie di 100 anni (come lui del resto) e parla solo di se stesso.. Vecchio che piu’ vecchio non si puo’ (che e’ anche l’offesa piu’ grande che gli si possa fare senza timore di essere querelati)

Se ne avete la possibilita’, mettetevi comodi ed ascoltatelo. E’ magnetico !

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/nationalday/

PS: Qui c’e’ un interessante post (in cui vengo citato) a riguardo

Il Singapore flyer inverte la rotazione !

SINGAPORE, Aug 12, 2008 (AFP) - Officials in Singapore have changed the direction of the world’s biggest observation wheel because feng shui masters said it was taking good fortune away from the city, a report said Saturday.

The Singapore Flyer, which opened earlier this year, had originally revolved so that it rose to face the business district and went down overlooking the sea, the Strait Times newspaper said.

However, masters of the ancient Chinese art of geomancy convinced the wheel’s management to reverse it so that it was not taking fortune away from the city.

“A number of feng shui masters had approached us to tell us that the Flyer is on the perfect site to pick up the good qi (energy) flowing into Singapore, but it was going in the wrong direction,” said Florian Bollen, the Singapore Flyer’s chairman.

“The Flyer was going against the sun and taking fortune away from Singapore.”

Bollen likened the change to the “completion of a perfect movie” to give a better story, but added that it cost the company a “six figure sum,” the report said.

For visitors now riding one of the wheel’s 28 air-conditioned capsules, their view starts with beaches and housing estates in the east and culminates with a vista of the business centre.

At 165 metres (545 feet), or 42 storeys, the Singapore Flyer is 30 metres higher than Britain’s London Eye, said builders Great Wheel Corp.

Despite being a modern city Singapore is a largely ethnic Chinese nation, where traditions still hold sway.

Source- Yahoo! news.

IT numbers in Singapore

Singapore may have a population of just 4.6 million, but it continuously strives to reinvent itself and is now nurturing a goal to be an intelligent nation by 2015. Home computer ownership and broadband adoption have increased. In 2006, 88 percent of households with school-going children owned PCs, up from 86 percent in 2005. Home broadband adoption, including wireless broadband subscriptions, stood at 68.4 percent in April 2007, and the island-state is on track to achieving 75 percent broadband penetration by the end of the year. Here is a look at Singapore’s IT profile: Households with computers: 78 percent in 2006, up from 74 percent in 2005 Households with Internet access: 71 percent in 2006, up from 66 percent in 2005 Household broadband penetration: 72.9 percent in August 2007; on track to achieving goal of 75 percent by year-end Business broadband adoption in 2006: Less than 10 staff (44 percent); 10-49 staff (69 percent); 50-249 staff (83 percent); 250 and above (99 percent) Residential broadband subscriptions: 848,300 in Q3 2007 compared to 546,800 in Q3 2005 Corporate broadband subscriptions: 86,800 in Q3 2007 compared to 59,200 in Q3 2005 Total wireless broadband subscriptions: 2 million in September 2007 Mobile phone penetration: 110 percent in August 2007 3G subscribers: 1.44 million in Q3 2007 compared to 66,200 in Q3 2005 Total SMS sent: 1.02 billion in August 2007 IT spending for 2006: US$4.74 billion, projected to hit US$5.03 billion and US$5.34 billion in 2007 and 2008, respectively Infocomm industry revenue in 2006: S$45.4 billion (US$31.3 billion), 19.9 percent increase from 2005; domestic revenue 36 percent, export revenue 64 percent in 2006 Projected SMB software-as-a-service spending for 2007: US$3 million Per capita public sector IT spending in 2006: US$152.89. In Asia-Pacific, Singapore ranks third after New Zealand (US$198.78) and Australia (US$193.82), in terms of per capita spend on IT in the public sector Desktop PCs shipped in 2006: 365,084 units, projected to hit 396,881 and 402,014 units in 2007 and 2008, respectively Portable computers shipped in 2006: 451,990, projected to hit 609,981 and 805,618 units in 2007 and 2008, respectively x86 servers shipped in 2006: 29,712, projected to top 33,254 and 34,064 units in 2007 and 2008, respectively PDA/handhelds shipped in 2006: 29,000 units, projected to fall to 20,700 and 17,000 units in 2007 and 2008, respectively Software vendor revenues in 2006: US$641.3 million, projected to top US$787.8 million and US$728.1 million in 2007 and 2008, respectively Security vendor revenues (include software, hardware and services) in 2006: US$129.4 million, projected to hit US$146.6 million and US$162.8 million in 2007 and 2008, respectively Storage hardware revenues (include tape drives, tape automation, fiber channel switches, external disk storage systems) in 2006: US$207.06 million, projected to drop to US$175.07 million and US$174.48 million in 2007 and 2008, respectively Discrete outsourcing market size (where a select component of a company’s IT environment is outsourced): US$351.96 million in 2006, projected to top US$401.84 million and US$436.88 million in 2007 and 2008, respectively Enterprisewide outsourcing market size (a comprehensive outsourcing contract which includes more than one discrete component): US$235.07 million in 2006, projected to top US$243.78 million and US$251.94 million in 2007 and 2008, respectively IT manpower: 119,700 in 2006, 7.5 percent increase from 2005. Government aims to create 55,000 new infocomm jobs by 2015, pushing the total number up to 170,000 Average annual salary of IT professionals in 2006: S$64,943 (US$41,501), making Singapore IT pros the second-highest paid after Hong Kong, according to ZDNet Asia’s IT Salary 2006 survey across seven countries Source: IDA, Wikipedia, Statistics Singapore, IDC Asia-Pacific, Springboard Research, ZDNet Asia IT Salary 2006 survey