OPINION: Malaysia's loss, Singapore's gain - Lim Mun Fah

Sin Chew Jit Poh, 17 Sep 2010
Malaysia has always been a major source of immigrants for Singapore. But there has been no official statistics over the years on how many Malaysians have immigrated to Singapore and become its citizens or permanent residents.
Recently, however, the Singapore Statistics Department released some details on immigrants to the republic. According to the data, one of every four Singaporeans is a foreigner. Among them are 386,000 residents, both citizens and permanent residents, who were born in Malaysia, 175,000 from China, including Hong Kong and Macau, 123,000 from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, and 54,000 from Indonesia. Full story