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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"My family and I have visited Singapore, and we like the environment, " said Jason Lee, an executive at a property-development company in Shanghai who said he was looking at buying a property in Singapore soon, possibly for emigrating with his family.
But one of the most interesting features of my recent trip to Hong Kong and Singapore not in the news today was the incredible economic power of outflowing Chinese capital.
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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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Babson accepted my proposal to take 25 MBA students to Hong Kong and Singapore for 10 days to learn about their start-up ecosystems.
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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