Singapore to carry out labour curbs


Singapore first: A technician working at a Rolls-Royce engine rotor assembly facility in Seletar. — AFP

SINGAPORE: Singapore has attracted high-tech manufacturers with incentives and a well-educated workforce but growing demands for highly skilled labour and government moves to curb numbers of foreign workers may mean a tougher path ahead.

The city-state is a major producer of products ranging from aircraft engines to medical equipment and oil rigs, and top firms such as Rolls-Royce and German industrial conglomerate Siemens have operations there.

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