Malaysia VEP information counter opens at Singapore’s Woodlands industrial park, despite no public announcement on location

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Singapore’s first-ever information counter for drivers to inquire about Malaysia’s Vehicle Entry Permit (VEP ) was launched on Monday ( Aug 19 ) without much fanfare because the only driver CNA who met there by noon had only learned about its location from a friend. &nbsp,

TCSens, the vendor chosen by Malaysia’s Road Transport Department ( JPJ) to handle inquiries from Singapore drivers, made no public announcement regarding the exact location of the office in Woodlands, nor by the authorities there. &nbsp,

A staff member at the TCSens business in Johor’s Danga Bay second let CNA know about the office’s place.

When CNA arrived at 8.45am, the company, which is located at 186 Woodlands Industrial Park E5, was clear. No evidence indicating that the location was the VEP data center were displayed at the office, nor did there are no waiting drivers it. &nbsp,

The building’s table list, however, listed the second floor system as” MY VEP PTE LTD”. &nbsp,

A VEP details shop will be set up in Woodlands earlier this month, according to Malaysian Transport Minister Anthony Loke, to assist individuals with their queries. &nbsp,

He stated at the time that a Singaporean company would run the shop in partnership with TCSens.

On Monday, team people running the heart arrived at about 8.47am to set up activities. &nbsp,

Six data counters, six chairs, a TV screen, and six information counters were visible inside the company. &nbsp,

But, no vehicles were seen at the workplace in the first hours of operation. &nbsp,

At about 10.20am, a vehicle arrived at the office to check about his VEP program.

A friend who visited TCSens ‘ Johor Bahru office and inquired about the beginning of the Singapore company contacted Mr. Jackson Tan, a private-hire drivers, to inform CNA of the information. &nbsp,

” Even on the Malaysia side, they only told my friend ( the address )… Not even the unit number ( of the office )”, the 55-year-old told CNA. &nbsp,

The Woodlands office’s director, Mr. Ng Poh Heng, claimed it was purely an “enquiry center.”

The company is here to assist Singaporeans who have issues and problems with applying for the VEP online, which is required to provide Malaysia.

Because the center is an enquiry center, Singaporeans do n’t have to travel all the way to Johor Bahru to get it done. So whatever issues they have, they can request it these face-to-face, “he said.

CNA is aware that drivers ca n’t install or collect their radio frequency identification ( RFID ) tags at the office.

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Thai growth quickens in Q2 on higher consumption, tourism

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BANGKOK: Thailand’s economic growth strengthened in the second quarter due to higher consumption, tourism and exports, official data showed on Monday ( Aug 19 ), and the government narrowed its full-year growth forecast range. Southeast Asia’s second-largest economy grew 2.3 per cent in the April-June quarter from a year earlier,Continue Reading

Commentary: Raising the retirement age won’t defuse China’s demographic time bomb

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THE NEED FOR Relocation

There is, however, something that can alleviate this pattern: Immigration.

Many of the world’s leading nataliation levels rely on international migration to produce younger laborers, and these younger immigrants also have more children than the local population.

Compare, for example, China’s lower level of 0.1 per share foreign-born with the almost 14 per cent foreign-born in the US and 18 per cent in Germany. Yet the East Asian nations of Japan and South Korea have higher foreign-born ratios than China, at 2 per cent and 3.7 per cent, both.

The Taiwanese government has made a number of attempts to put policies in place to increase the delivery rate into place, but they have failed. In fact, practitioners tend to agree that like “pronatalist” plans tend not to be successful.

However, it wo n’t be simple to implement and implement an active immigration policy in China, a nation with few immigration-related successes and a scheiningly deep-rooted belief in racial purity shared by many Communist Party leaders.

The larger Chinese people may be opposed to multiculturalism. The most affected by an increase in immigrants would be the young Chinese staff. Some Chinese may lose their jobs and need to relocate if any policy that promotes mass immigration were to begin. This would be the case more often for fresh workers.

However, refugees generally seek employment in occupations that the local population does not want, sometimes referred to as” three Wii work” or as dirty, dangerous, and demeaning occupations. In the US and most of Europe, respectively, this has happened.

And the long-term effects will be more agonizing for China. By the start of the second centuries, China may be half as big as it is now and one of the oldest nations in the world, if not the oldest nation.

Beijing is already under the strain of these changes, so pension reforms are necessary. The issues China will face will be much worse, however, without the arrival of a young refugee workforce.

Dudley L Poston Jr is Professor of Sociology, Texas A&amp, M University. This commentary&nbsp, second appeared&nbsp, on The Conversation.

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