CIVIL AVIATION DEPARTMENT (Advertisements of vacancies)

Mr Teong Eng Siong asked the Minister for Communications whether vacancies in the Civil Aviation Department are advertised in the English language newspapers only; and if he will take steps to have such advertisements hereafter inserted also in the newspapers published in the other official languages.

Mr Yong Nyuk Lin: Mr Speaker, Sir, advertisements for vacancies in the Ministry of Communications (which include the Civil Aviation Department) are referred by the Public Service Commission to the Ministry of Culture, with indications as to which newspapers the advertisements are to appear.

In the recent general advertisement inviting university graduates and those with Higher School Certificate qualifications for 59 different appointments in the civil service (which includes those for the Civil Aviation Department) such advertisement was published in the Straits Times, the Nanyang Siang Pau and the Berita Harian.

The said advertisement invited those interested to call at the Public Service Commission for further details, which are to be found in an 18-page cyclostyled hand-out.