It was the standing of one of Singapore's most seasoned corporate players, Mr. Ong, who controls about 20% of the Vickers Ballas shares, and one of the island-republic's most powerful woman, Madam Ho, whose Singapore Technologies owns 40% of the firm.
Better yet, gloats Neo, Money topped Jackie Chan's highest-grossing film in Singapore, Story of CIA. It is the first time any Asian film, not to mention one from Singapore's unglamorous, fledgling industry, has surpassed the wildly popular Chan - himself the only Asian whose films have consistently beaten the West's.
The People's Action Party won an expected one in Singapore .
The EU implemented one with South Korea, recently concluded one with Singapore, is negotiating another with Canada, and has begun talks with Tokyo over a free trade pact.
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And there's a nice national tie-in too: the 11.55% stake was held by the family of the late Khoo Teck Puat, a billionaire and one of Singapore's most renowned investors.
He took risks, making markets in unusual securities like the state of California's individual registered warrants, issued during a 2009 budget crisis and he received venture capital from FirstMark Capital, Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing, and one of Singapore's state-owned investment funds.
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Now he is ensnared in just the sort of investigation he thought would help turn France's finances around, as prosecutors take a close look at an online journal's allegations that he transferred money from a Swiss account into one in Singapore.
Its nondegree executive-education courses have about 1, 000 participants this academic year, about one-third the size of its Singapore program and one-fifth the figure in Fontainebleau.
Indonesia has expressed its displeasure at RIM's decision to set one up in Singapore, instead of Indonesia.
CVC's plan to revive Formula One's Singapore IPO later this year was first reported by U.K. newspaper The Telegraph.
Currently Asian countries lag behind others in environmental regulations, relying instead on voluntary initiatives like the one introduced in Singapore last year.
One explains that Singapore needs to weed out undeserving claimants and shakes his head at the potential cost of a comprehensive welfare service.
As one researcher in Singapore explained, how could it be possible for her to start a family when she has to compete with other women who are not so encumbered?
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Some 68% of the foreign direct investment (FDI) that China received in 2009 came from places where ethnic Chinese are the biggest group, with Hong Kong the number one source, Singapore number four and Taiwan number nine.
More production will be done in what 3M calls "super hubs, " plants capable of making scores of products for a region of the world. 3M now has 10 hubs, including six in the U.S. and one each in Singapore, Japan, Germany and Poland.
Khin Nyunt was much impressed by Singapore, one of the few countries he has visited.
Singapore spends one-seventh of what we spend on health care, and one-quarter of what Europeans do.
Singapore estimates one fifth to a quarter of its population will be over 60 in 2030.
Right now we see Singapore on one end and Syria on another, moving apart.
In 1970, less than half of women in Japan and Korea were working, and only one-fifth in Singapore.
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Because Singapore is one of the leading traffic hubs for Internet traffic, it offers superb infrastructure, as well as a modern workforce.
We head to Japan, spend the same amount of time there, one fewer days in Singapore, and then pick up as previously scheduled.
Her deterioration led the government, on doctors' advice, to send her that evening to Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore, one of Asia's top hospitals.
Singapore is one of the most successful countries in the world.
None of this is particularly novel: in recent years Frankfurt's stockmarket, derivatives exchange and clearing house have all been brought under one roof, and Singapore and Australia are planning the same.
"The start of yuan clearing service in Singapore is one more step forward to the internationalization of the renminbi, " said Matthew Cannon, HSBC's head of global markets in Singapore, referring to the Chinese currency by its official name.
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As one example, Abbott in 2009 opened a Singapore manufacturing facility that serves up to one million infants and children each year.
As expected, Beijing was critical of what it called a breach of Singapore's one-China policy.
Singapore is establishing one, and Shanghai and Shenzhen, two of China's wealthiest cities, have just pioneered theirs.
Visibility in the Malacca Strait between Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore one of the world's busiest shipping lanes has been greatly reduced.
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