FOR the first time, the government has released figures on the extraordinarily large influx of foreign workers during the booming 90s and the sharp subsequent cutback when job creation plunged.
It was forced to release them to counter a damaging report by a prestigious panel of Nanyang Technological University (NTU) economists, which said three out of four new jobs in the past five years had gone to foreigners.
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