Bloomberg, 11 Aug 2011
To fuel its ambitions, Singapore attracted globe-trotting professionals and entrepreneurs from places such as North America, Europe and India, as well as lower-paid laborers from countries including China, the Philippines and Bangladesh.
“It feels like an invasion because one day you wake up and there seem to be foreigners wherever you go,” says Dixon Chew, 34, a Singaporean maintenance engineer. “It used to be that most of the foreign workers were maids or laborers, but now they’re driving the buses, they’re taking your orders at McDonald’s, they’re the cashiers at the supermarkets.” Full story
