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i'm more interested in who's badly burnt body was found. 
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This President Scholar has her life set. If she retires at 60, she would have milked taxpayers $50 million in today's dollars, not including the pension she will get on retirement.
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Wow, even our best and brightest are beaten by FTs!!
Yup Singapore do not allow dual citizenship... How come she can have dual citizen??? President scholar tua liap?? Or is a cut and paste job by someone??
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The short answer is that Singapore effectively allows dual citizenship. However, by acquiring a foreign citizenship you give SG Government the discretion to revoke your citizenship if it ever finds out.
That is the practical effect of the following:
1) On the one hand, Sections 134 and 135 of the SG Constitution states that the Govt may revoke your citizenship status if you have acquired foreign citizenship or exercised rights of foreign nationals (e.g. voted in elections of a foreign country – some allow PRs to do so). Note – operative word is “may” and not “must”.
http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/aol/sear...ansactionTime:05/06/2013 Status:inforce;rec=0
2) On the other, there is no provision to require a SG citizen to inform the Govt that he has done any of the things mentioned in (1) above. Although I don’t discount the fact that some Govt forms may ask this question and I am not encouraging you to give a false answer, just to consider if you really need whatever it is you are applying for.
So there you are. If you keep quiet and SG Govt does not know that you have another citizenship, then effectively you are not breaching any law. You can continue to come back to Singapore and vote wisely.
However, if you want your CPF, then you have to renounce your citizenship, otherwise they will keep your money at their pleasure. Bottom line is – how desperate are you to lay your hands on your CPF and how effective you have been in keeping your mouth shut about having acquired a foreign citizenship or exercised a right limited to foreign nationals and how much the Sinkie Government hates you to want to revoke your citizenship since it is not compulsory for them to do so.
Mystery solved? No need to go on arguing in circles right?
Hint: Now is a little past 10 am in London. Temperature 10 °C.
That is the practical effect of the following:
1) On the one hand, Sections 134 and 135 of the SG Constitution states that the Govt may revoke your citizenship status if you have acquired foreign citizenship or exercised rights of foreign nationals (e.g. voted in elections of a foreign country – some allow PRs to do so). Note – operative word is “may” and not “must”.
http://statutes.agc.gov.sg/aol/sear...ansactionTime:05/06/2013 Status:inforce;rec=0
2) On the other, there is no provision to require a SG citizen to inform the Govt that he has done any of the things mentioned in (1) above. Although I don’t discount the fact that some Govt forms may ask this question and I am not encouraging you to give a false answer, just to consider if you really need whatever it is you are applying for.
So there you are. If you keep quiet and SG Govt does not know that you have another citizenship, then effectively you are not breaching any law. You can continue to come back to Singapore and vote wisely.
However, if you want your CPF, then you have to renounce your citizenship, otherwise they will keep your money at their pleasure. Bottom line is – how desperate are you to lay your hands on your CPF and how effective you have been in keeping your mouth shut about having acquired a foreign citizenship or exercised a right limited to foreign nationals and how much the Sinkie Government hates you to want to revoke your citizenship since it is not compulsory for them to do so.
Mystery solved? No need to go on arguing in circles right?
Hint: Now is a little past 10 am in London. Temperature 10 °C.
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