My moving to Singapore is also a sign of the importance of the project to our group.
"My feeling is that Singapore isn't foreigner-friendly anymore, " said Alan Chen, 37 years old, who is from Shanghai and moved to Singapore five years ago to work in the logistics industry.
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"Singapore is my home, this is my base, this is where I feel safe, " says Comer, speaking in the loft of his four-story office in a shophouse on Singapore's Ann Siang Hill precinct, a preserved historic area just off Chinatown.
Singapore has been an outstanding friend and ally of the United States for many, many years, and so I am very much looking forward to the opportunity to hearing from the Minister Mentor his views on the evolving situation in Asia, as I prepare for my upcoming trip both to Singapore and to other key nations in the region.
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But my friend now has a different -- in Singapore when you say government...
And, in exchange, the guy from Singapore is helping me with some stuff with my companies that want to go to Asia.
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What is worth a lot to me because I can extract value by integrating with my existing infrastructure isn't worth that much to a Singapore bank that doesn't have the same economies of scale.
"I banged out a few ideas when I landed in Singapore, I sent emails to about 10 people sharing my ideas and when I got to Sydney eight hours later they had all reacted and all very favorably, " recalled Bakker.
Having lived in the 1940s and 1950s, just after the defeated Japanese left a poverty stricken Singapore, I have seen the struggles during the development of my then backward country to a modern metropolis.
And one of my favorite finds was a toilet in a modest but excellent Indian restaurant in Singapore.
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But unlike the intern in Singapore, who was contemplating taking her expensive bag to work, my boss was referring to my good grooming.
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My initial marveling at how cool it was that I could do this from Singapore without schlepping to Borders and then to the post office, turned to helpless anger a month later when the gift hadn't been delivered.
As many of you know, I spent some time in my youth in this part of the world and have a great fondness and affection for the people of Singapore.
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