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Both Chen and Ye arrived in Singapore as teenagers under a government effort to recruit foreign talent through scholarship programs that began in the 1990s. Chen studied computer engineering at the National University of Singapore, while Ye, also originally from China, went to Hwa Chong Institution and Raffles Junior College,... 

The Business Times reported that SBS Transit’s “bottom line was largely cushioned by government grants of S$61.6 million, with most of the support coming from a 10-month wage subsidy (JSS). Without the government grants, the company would have incurred an operating loss of S$29.4 million.” JSS is supposedly to “save... 

One of the most accurate descriptions of Singapore that I’ve heard came from my former client, Datuk Vinod Sekhar, Founder of the GreenRubber Group. He described Singapore as “Disneyland under Martial Law,” and explained that Singapore was Disneyland, the place that everyone wants to be but it only got that way because...