A hotel for citizens and foreign talents


  • Letters
  • Sunday, 18 Jun 2006

IN an increasingly “borderless” world, Singapore is finding it harder to shake off the image that it is more “a hotel” than a nation. 

The term was coined by its citizens who are increasingly working or migrating abroad, coming home only occasionally while top foreign talents being courted to settle here are doing so only to use it as transit to the West. In short, it is like a hotel. 

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