Lion City Quotes

“Singapore’s first industrial estate, at Jurong in the west of the island, opened in 1963. The timing was fortuitous: Western companies were looking to move semiconductor assembly to lower-cost countries.”
― Jeevan Vasagar, Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

“Legislation introduced in 1967 cut taxes on the profits from exports from the headline rate of 40 per cent to 4 per cent.”
― Jeevan Vasagar, Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

“Economic Development Board in August 1961 with the goal of promoting investment and developing industry.”
― Jeevan Vasagar, Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

“Singapore faces a future in which its labour force will shrink rapidly, squeezed by some of the world’s lowest birth rates and reduced immigration.”
― Jeevan Vasagar, Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia

“Deng Xiaoping, architect of China’s market reforms,”
― Jeevan Vasagar, Lion City: Singapore and the Invention of Modern Asia