No Need to Be Citizen to Buy Landed in Sg NOW!

[makapaaa]

While Sporns continue to serve NS. What are u defending?


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</TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=452 colSpan=2>Jet Li buys $20m Binjai Rise bungalow
Tommie Goh acquires GCB from neighbour Sam Goi

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(SINGAPORE) Action star Jet Li seems to be sinking deeper roots in Singapore. He and his wife, Nina, bought a good class bungalow (GCB) on Binjai Rise for $19.8 million last month. The price works out to $871 per square foot based on the freehold land area of 22,723 square feet.

<TABLE class=picBoxL cellSpacing=2 width=100 align=left><TBODY><TR><TD> </TD></TR><TR class=caption><TD>Mr Li: Spurred to set up his charitable foundation after a narrow escape from the 2004 tsunami. He moved his family to Singapore in 2007 for his children's education </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>Mr Li is understood to have become a Singapore citizen.
Last year, he announced plans to set up a base in Singapore for his charity and disaster-relief group One Foundation. The Jet Li One Foundation Singapore was registered in June 2008.
Mr Li had said at the Forbes Global CEO Conference here in September last year that Singapore offers the right conditions for grooming future NGO leaders.
He was spurred to set up his charitable foundation after a narrow escape from the 2004 tsunami. According to earlier media reports, Mr Li moved his two daughters and wife to Singapore in 2007 for his children's education.
The Beijing-born Mr Li led a life of hardship as a child (his father died when he was two) but persevered to emerge as China's overall national wushu champion for five consecutive years in the 1970s. He began his acting career in the early 1980s, starting with Shaolin Temple and today has about 40 movies under his belt.
Mr Li became a US citizen in the 1980s.
When contacted, a spokeswoman for Singapore's Immigration and Checkpoints Authority declined to confirm if Mr Li is now a Singapore citizen. 'Due to reasons of confidentiality, the ICA will not discuss individual cases publicly,' she said.
Mr Li was not the only luminary who picked up a GCB here in May.
2G Capital co-founder Tommie Goh bought 2A Ridley Park, next to his existing home, for $30 million or slightly over $1,100 psf.
The seller was 'popiah king' Sam Goi, executive chairman of Tee Yih Jia Food Manufacturing and an established investor in the GCB market.
Mr Goi is expected to move to a new palatial home that he has built on Nassim Road. BT understands that the two neighbours had been discussing the sale of 2A Ridley Park on and off for the past few years.
GCBs, with their stringent planning requirements, are the creme de la creme of Singapore's housing market. There are only about 2,400 such bungalows on the island.
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[makapaaa]

>>>Mr Li became a US citizen in the 1980s.
When contacted, a spokeswoman for Singapore's Immigration and Checkpoints Authority declined to confirm if Mr Li is now a Singapore citizen. 'Due to reasons of confidentiality, the ICA will not discuss individual cases publicly,' she said.<<<

In other words, dual citizenship is permitted for FTrash lah! *PTUI*

 

[besotted]

Jet Li overcome extreme poverty and is now running a world-calss foundation to help the underprivileged

It is an honour for Singaporeans for this hero to come here

Of course there are losers who havent done anything worthwhile in their lives, keep asking for government nanny nanny titsy and still whine whine whine

 

[singveld]

singapore property can go up to 19 millions???

wow, that is so unfair.

 

[halsey02]

Jet Li overcome extreme poverty and is now running a world-calss foundation to help the underprivileged

It is an honour for Singaporeans for this hero to come here

Of course there are losers who havent done anything worthwhile in their lives, keep asking for government nanny nanny titsy and still whine whine whine

I am not asking the government anything, I am expecting them to provide, what is expected of any government in a civilized country; at a reasonable cost, be transparent & responsible for their mistakes.

Jet Li is a hero?..like the ones in Water Margin?...Chinese will go where there is a smell of money, women & gambling...

A hero from the Chinese classic..WATER MARGIN!...we are brothers, indeed!

 

[kulgai]

singapore property can go up to 19 millions???

wow, that is so unfair.

this is a good class bungalow in prime district. for tat price, it's still cheap. few years down the road, he'll easily gain another 5m in capital appreciation

 

[PAPsupporter]

Singapore under the great PAP government has now become a global attraction for all well-reputed large MNCs, investors, traders, businessmen and international superstars like Jet Li to come in. We all should be glad and proud about it. 3 cheers for PAP.

 

[HellAngel]

If must be Citizen then can buy landed, the country would have been in deep shit! At least 75% of the private are owned by FTs!!! So please get down from your high horses Sinkies!!!

 

[saratogas]

At least Jet Li is a Chinese not Ah neh!

 

[yellow_people]

>>>Mr Li became a US citizen in the 1980s.
When contacted, a spokeswoman for Singapore's Immigration and Checkpoints Authority declined to confirm if Mr Li is now a Singapore citizen. 'Due to reasons of confidentiality, the ICA will not discuss individual cases publicly,' she said.<<<

In other words, dual citizenship is permitted for FTrash lah! *PTUI*

The fertility rate amongst the local Chinese is pathetic. Their reproduction levels have dipped below 1.0 and this does not include the problem of aging. If the govt does not hand out PRs and citizenship to foreign Chinese what becomes of the Chinese population in Singapore?? How are the Chinese going to maintain their high priced pigeon holes when there is hardly anyone around??

You should be thankful the PAP is mindful of this issue and attempting to address it.

 

[johnny333]

If must be Citizen then can buy landed, the country would have been in deep shit! At least 75% of the private are owned by FTs!!! So please get down from your high horses Sinkies!!!

Many countries prohibit non-citizens from purchasing landed property to prevent property price from escalating to unreasonable levels. In other words to protect its citizens

If you look at the property prices in Spore, who can afford all those multi-million dollar prices? If you are a local earning local wages, at most you can afford 1 million or 2 million.

So the sale of land to foreigners only benefit the elite property owners

 

[PAPsupporter]

Many countries prohibit non-citizens from purchasing landed property to prevent property price from escalating to unreasonable levels. In other words to protect its citizens

If you look at the property prices in Spore, who can afford all those multi-million dollar prices? If you are a local earning local wages, at most you can afford 1 million or 2 million.

So the sale of land to foreigners only benefit the elite property owners

Singapore must be unique in order to achieve better successes. It is just like doing business, you must have a niche and be creative in order to earn big bucks and survive in this competitive business world today. Our great PAP is always doing a tremendous great job.

It does not mean only the elites or the rich can buy housing or landed property. With a high-quality and high-standard education system and training system in Singapore, more people are much more educated and well-trained and can get better jobs and earn a higher salaries to purchase the property in Singapore. If we all work hard together with our great PAP government, we can achieve whatever things we wanted. 3 cheers for PAP.

 

[johnny333]

Singapore must be unique in order to achieve better successes. It is just like doing business, you must have a niche and be creative in order to earn big bucks and survive in this competitive business world today. Our great PAP is always doing a tremendous great job.

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You sure you don't work for the gov't

Gov't includes GLC, truth brigade,....