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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->THE Special Report, 'Young dragons' (Nov 22) gave some gross overestimates of the number of PRC nationals in Singapore.
Our records show that the total number of persons from all Asian countries (excluding South-east Asia) who are in Singapore is 852,000. This includes China, India, Bangladesh and 30 other countries. Hence the number of PRC nationals is obviously only a fraction of that, and not 'close to one million' as cited in the report.
Likewise, the number of nationals from these same countries who have acquired permanent residence or Singapore citizenship over the past 20 years is 239,000. Again, only a fraction would have been PRC nationals, and not 'between 300,000 and 400,000', as estimated by the Tian Fu Club. Ong-Kong Yong Sin (Mrs)
Senior Public & Internal Communications Executive
Immigration & Checkpoints Authority
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<!-- START OF : div id="storytext"--><!-- more than 4 paragraphs -->THE Special Report, 'Young dragons' (Nov 22) gave some gross overestimates of the number of PRC nationals in Singapore.
Our records show that the total number of persons from all Asian countries (excluding South-east Asia) who are in Singapore is 852,000. This includes China, India, Bangladesh and 30 other countries. Hence the number of PRC nationals is obviously only a fraction of that, and not 'close to one million' as cited in the report.
Likewise, the number of nationals from these same countries who have acquired permanent residence or Singapore citizenship over the past 20 years is 239,000. Again, only a fraction would have been PRC nationals, and not 'between 300,000 and 400,000', as estimated by the Tian Fu Club. Ong-Kong Yong Sin (Mrs)
Senior Public & Internal Communications Executive
Immigration & Checkpoints Authority
