The bank plies "bi-lingual" middle-income Singapore Chinese its staples of home loans, renovation funding and retail banking.
The two separated when Pantas was sent to a Chinese boarding school in Singapore.
'Brought to Singapore by Chinese immigrants, it was changed by Indians using Malaysian ingredients into a dish that would hardly be recognisable in China.
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.
As in 2003, the best results have been achieved by Pacific rim countries, such as Singapore, Hong Kong, Chinese Taipei and South Korea.
After his death, Todd's parents found that his hard drive contained a proposal between the Singapore outfit and a prominent Chinese telecom firm, Huawei, to build a powerful amplifier using gallium nitride technology.
"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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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.
Amelio hired a Chinese coach to give him private lessons in his Singapore home.
Repsol will be using a Chinese-built drilling rig that only recently left Singapore for Cuban waters.
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Malay remains the national language (there are four official languages), but it is not spoken by most Chinese and is largely seen as a relic of Singapore's past union with Malaysia.
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He was speaking at a conference in Singapore, attended by a high-level Chinese military delegation.
Singapore's Nanyang Business School offers a Chinese-language executive MBA and from next year will have an English version.
Relations between the Chinese and the Malays, who make up 15% of Singapore's population, have sometimes been strained.
But in Singapore this style of parenting, especially among the ethnic Chinese majority, is rarely questioned.
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"People often ask why don't we put on, say, Chinese films, " says HBO president and CEO William Hooks in Singapore.
Bank of Singapore, the private- banking arm of Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp.
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.
At the same time, a massive Chinese-built semi-submersible oil rig has been dispatched from Singapore to a position off northwest Cuba, about 50 miles from Key West.
Singapore is an ethnically diverse country, with the majority Chinese making up about 75% of the community, Malays, Indians and people of mixed ethnicities making up much of the remainder.
"The Salims are affected by the crisis, " says Singapore-based political scientist Leo Suryadinata, who studies ethnic Chinese businesses in Indonesia.
But there are handicaps, including language: Chinese is widely spoken in many other Asian destinations, including Malaysia and Singapore, but not in South Korea.
Singapore also boasts its own homegrown Peranakan cuisine, a mixture of Chinese and Malaysian styles.
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.
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.
The Chinese who arrived in Britain from the 1950s to the 1970s came largely from Hong Kong, Singapore and Malaysia.
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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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