Singaporeans typically fly north to Hong Kong to shop, eat and behave in a more relaxed fashion than in their own polite, highly regulated and restricted society.
Now the tiny southeast Asian state, financial hub of the 600m-strong Asean bloc of 10 nations and once disparagingly referred to by neighbouring Indonesia as Asia’s “little red dot”, hopes to boost the number of incoming tourists flying south.
The government initiative to ratchet up “repeat visitorship” to Singapore — still seen by many as a tropical version of the UK’s Milton Keynes — is likely to involve Temasek, the $177bn state-owned investment fund.
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