Chan Heng Chee Quotes
We recognize that we need more people to contribute to our vision for an intelligent city, a city of the future.
Singapore had begun an effort to encourage certain kinds of highly educated immigrants in an effort to emulate the diversity that had stood the UK and US in such good stead.
Heng-Chee Chan, Singapore Ambassador to the United States, Quoted in The Washington Post,, October 17, 1997
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Chan Heng Chee, DUBC, is a Singaporean academic and diplomat currently serving the Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the National Arts Council and a Member of the Presidential Council for Minority Rights. She was Singapore's Ambassador to the United States from July 1996 to July 2012.