[color=#444444]SCURRYING around the corridors of the business school at the National University of Singapore (NUS) in his white lab coat last year, Michael Zyphur must have made an incongruous sight.

[color=#444444]去年，身着实验室白大褂，趋行于新加坡国立大学商学院走道时，迈克尔•塞弗（Michael Zyphur）必有令人突兀之感。

youdao

Singapore national flag: is composed by on red under white two equal horizontal rectangles, is long and the wide ratio is 3:2.

新加坡国旗：由上红下白两个相等的横长方形组成，长与宽之比为3∶2。

youdao

Mr. White told me that he was leaving for Singapore in a few days .

怀特先生告诉我几天后他就要离开这里去新加坡。

youdao

Meanwhile, Max Baucus (D-Montana), chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said his staff has met with U.S. Embassy and Singaporean officials in Singapore, and he has spoken with White House officials "to ensure this issue on their radar, " a spokeswoman said.

CNN: STORY HIGHLIGHTS

Among staff affected are 350 based in Tiverton in south-west England, another 65 in Edinburgh in Scotland, as well as a further 600 or so in New York and White Plains in the US, Singapore in East Asia, and in several other offices around the world.

BBC: Reuters to shift core unit to India

He worked as a White House aide under President Ronald Reagan, was ambassador to Singapore under the first President George Bush, and was a trade official under President George W Bush.

BBC: US election 2012: Jon Huntsman joins Republican field