Covid-weary Chinese millionaires eye Singapore amid ‘chaos and unpredictability’ at home


By He HuifengJane Cai

Over the past seven years, Kristine Zhang’s social media signature has read “parting is for reunion” – a mantra she has clung to while enduring long spells away from her husband.

Since 2015, she has spent several months of each year in Singapore, where her son is studying, while her husband – a former executive at a foreign company – has been managing his car painting business in Guangdong.

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