Ever since the Ryan Goh, Amy Cheong and Alvin Tan incident, we would have thought that MOM will clamp down on Malaysian Chinese working in Singapore.
Since Jul 13, MOM has increased the salary requirement for S-Pass from $2K a month to $2.2K a month and E-Pass to $3K a month.
Some of my Malaysian Chinese friends are confident that even when PAP loses a few seats and anti-foreigner sentiments rising, they will still be safe. Their rationale is that MOM will target Philippines, India, PRC and Indonesia first but Malaysian Chinese will be spared.
Basically, Malaysian Chinese are not under S-Pass but under E-Pass. Initially, I thought that E-Pass would be subjected to the minimum $3K criteria but what they told me is that there are many categories of E-Pass and some E-Pass are $2K criteria and not even disclosed on MOM Website.
When I questioned that they could be confusing E-Pass with S-Pass criteria, they told me that S-Pass is for those from Philippines, Myanmar, India and PRC. They were very certain that there is a E-Pass for Malaysian Chinese and MOM doesn't disclose this.
To make matters more confusing, they told me that Malaysian Chinese are not subjected to MOM levies.
Can anyone in this forum agree or disagree? Do you have any information to back this up?
Perhaps our Malaysian born PAP MPs such as Irene Ng can ask these questions in Parliament to bring more transparency in MOM? You don't have to be a Yes Man even if you are PAP MP.
CJ
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