Should a person's weight affect his or her's chances for promotion?

In my opinion, I feel that a person's weight should not affect his or her's chances of promotion. Firstly, performance is the main factor for promotion and hence, a person who is obese should stand the same chance of getting promotion as people who are not.
Many may argue that appearance is important too and I do agree that if you are obese, it is very hard to get jobs such as front desk personnel in hotels but in most private businesses, not every worker in the company meets clients. Most do their work at their desk the whole day. Hence, appearance would not count and the obese person should stand an equal chance to get promotion as a normal person.
However, supposing the obese person is somehow the only choice for a certain job, one that requires meeting clients, then appearance but I still feel that it should not affect the person's chances for promotion.
A company can also take some steps and measures to cut down on the amount of obese and overweight people in their company. One would be to hold a session compulsory for all employees and explain to them the importance of having a normal weight and not being obese. This way, not only will the obese people have and equal chance of promotion, but they may also take the advice and try to slim down, killing two birds with one stone.

Foreign talents: Good or bad

This subject, about whether spotting or attracting foreign talents to come to Singapore is good or bad has been a topic of discussion for some time already. Some people feel that attracting these foreign talents to come to Singapore and stay is good as they contribute to Singapore greatly. One example would be Feng Tianwei, who was born in China, came to Singapore under a Foreign Sports Talent Scheme. She has shot up the table tennis rankings to reach world no.2 and has done Singapore proud in many competitions, including beating China 3-1 with two other teammates en route to winning the Liebherr World Team Table Tennis Championships in Moscow. Feng showed how much her importance as she won the two matches she played against the world no.1 and 4.
However, some people feel that by attracting these foreign talents, many of who are academically gifted, Singaporean children do not have a chance to get into a good school of their choice as the foreign talents are given priority. However, this is not true as if the child works hard and scores really well, which school will not take him or her? Hence, this "bad" thing about attracting foreign talents to come and stay becomes good as the local students will become more competitive and study harder to fight for the remaining places in the good schools, as well as prove that they are as good as these foreign talents.
In my opinion, bringing foreign talents to Singapore is good as for one, this can make the local students more competitive and more hardworking as mentioned above. These foreign talents may decide to say as well. These two parties will contribute a lot to Singapore in the years to come.
Another reason for my stand will be that as Singapore is a small country and has a small population of about 4.5 million, how many "talents" will there be in such a small amount of people, as compared to countries such as China, which has a population of 1 billion. There is an abundance of talents there, many which remain undiscovered. Hence, by bringing all these foreign talents, many of which stay in Singapore and make it their home, we ensure that the future work force is a capable one.