Singapore, the Nation That Lee Kuan Yew Built, Questions Its Direction - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Singapore, the Nation That Lee Kuan Yew Built, Questions Its Direction
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Battling a low birthrate among its citizens, the government opened the floodgates to foreign labor over the past decade and a half. More than a third of the 5.5 million people living in Singapore today are not citizens.The number of nonresident immigrants has more than doubled since 2000, to nearly 1.6 million from 754,000. The number of foreigners given permanent resident status also nearly doubled during the same period, to just over 500,000.