The two separated when Pantas was sent to a Chinese boarding school in Singapore.
Mae, whose full name is Vanessa-Mae Vanakorn Nicholson was born in Singapore to a Chinese mother and a Thai father but was brought up in the UK when her mother remarried a Briton.
Amelio hired a Chinese coach to give him private lessons in his Singapore home.
"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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He was speaking at a conference in Singapore, attended by a high-level Chinese military delegation.
"People often ask why don't we put on, say, Chinese films, " says HBO president and CEO William Hooks in Singapore.
But there are handicaps, including language: Chinese is widely spoken in many other Asian destinations, including Malaysia and Singapore, but not in South Korea.
But in Singapore this style of parenting, especially among the ethnic Chinese majority, is rarely questioned.
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In Singapore, where there are large numbers of people from Chinese, Malay and Indian backgrounds, all three ethnic groups have seen a dramatic rise in short-sightedness.
"The Salims are affected by the crisis, " says Singapore-based political scientist Leo Suryadinata, who studies ethnic Chinese businesses in Indonesia.
Jim Rogers, 69, and his wife, Paige Parker, 43, sold their New York City home and moved to Singapore in 2007, specifically so their children could grow up speaking Chinese.
The Chinese who arrived in Britain from the 1950s to the 1970s came largely from Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.
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Then, at the annual Shangri-la security conference in Singapore that month, Gates had to endure a series of hostile comments from Chinese flag officers.
Chinese buyers slipped to the No. 2 spot last year, representing 22% of foreigners buying homes in Singapore, while Malaysians reclaimed the top spot with 26%.
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Las Vegas Sands makes the bulk of its earnings in Macau, the world's biggest gambling market and the only Chinese territory where casinos are allowed, and Singapore.
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