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...Opening a family office opens the door to getting a visa to live and work in Singapore, she says. “Many travel to and fro. They see Singapore as cosmopolitan....
...As well as Bukit Timah, Tay says the areas around the Orchard Road shopping district and near the beach in East Coast Park have seen particularly high demand....
...Many are often foreign workers who rely on their jobs for their visas and so are too afraid to push back....
...But this harvest his orchards remain worryingly quiet after the world’s toughest Covid-19 travel restrictions caused a shortage of workers....
...He once worked on a US project to modernise Kabul’s electricity system, which might be enough to get him a Special Immigrant Visa....
...Farooq Ahmad Lone and his workers migrate across large swaths of India from Kashmir to Gujarat pollinating mustard crops and apple orchards....
...Aside from a few pomegranates stubbornly clinging on, the orchards were empty: apples pruned, vines tied in, walnut trees stark silhouettes against cold, misted skies....
...In March, with China in lockdown, he set up a virtual sales event, with CGI renderings of the apartments at The Avenir, a 376-home development south of Orchard Road, a prestigious central neighbourhood....
...It took nearly three years from our first application to secure our visas to travel....
...It is a Sunday in Singapore, and fortunately his home on the city state’s upmarket Orchard Road is not far from the Fullerton Hotel where we are due to meet for coffee....
...The panorama around us could have been southern Tuscany: olive groves and vineyards, ripe fields of barley rising to low hills patched with orchards....
...The fall in Chinese tourism to Hong Kong has been blamed on anti-mainlander xenophobia, but also on an easing of visa restrictions that has boosted Chinese tourism to more far-flung destinations....
...He left and became president of Visa from 2007 to 2009 before moving to private equity group General Atlantic in 2010....
...Joe Saunders, former Visa CEO After a long career in the credit card business, Joe Saunders, 69, was appointed as chief executive of Visa in 2007....
...Most notably: former Morgan Stanley chairman and CEO John Mack; former president of Visa Hans Morris; former CEO of trading platform Instinet, Anthony Abenante; and co-founder of PayPal, Max Levchin....
...Payoff has won backing from Mohamed El-Erian, the former Pimco chief executive, as well as Joe Saunders, the former chief executive of Visa....
...Orchard has also attracted money from Mr Mack, as well as Hans Morris, the long-time Citi banker and former president of Visa who also sits on Lending Club’s board....
...who works for venture capital investor Kleiner, Perkins, Caulfield and Byers, John Mack, the former Morgan Stanley chief executive, and Hans Morris, the long-time Citigroup banker and former president of Visa...
...each year to fulfil their visa obligations....
...“There used to be a lot of immigrant workers at apple orchards and poultry processing plants but the average person wouldn’t know a problem created by an illegal immigrant,” says Mike Meredith, a former...
...We drove on, into the foothills of the Zagros Mountains, passing apple orchards and fields of pomegranate, almond and walnut trees....
...Walkers in the orchard at Cotehele in Cornwall’s Tamar Valley can swipe a pen-like device on the tree, to hear it tell its story....
...For example, it is common to hear Bahasa Indonesia spoken in Parkway’s Mount Elizabeth facility, just off the Orchard Road shopping centre, which was the first hospital in Asia to perform cardiomyoplasty...
...GMI's data [see scatter graph] show that companies such as Kodak, Kleenex, Visa and Gillette are simply not perceived as American....
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