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From?" >> anthony: well, that's a good question. where are they going to come from? >> goh: there's a lot of insinuations of an answer, but no true answer. >> anthony: the answer is not from singapore, right? they're going to have to come in from china. >> goh: for the 15,000, or 20,000 food stalls like this we have in singapore, if it's public run like this one, you can't hire foreigners. it's meant for singaporeans. >> anthony: but isn't the beginning of all of this was people from china, india. >> goh: that's what i keep saying, our food came from the rest of the world. yeah, we had nothing...

Depressing. >> najip: i know, but that's the past. >> anthony: the muslim quarter --just following afternoon prayers. i'm here with najip ali, a singaporean malay entertainer and producer. >> najip: yeah, okay. >> anthony: that looks good. >> najip: this is it. >> anthony: so this is a -- >> najip: longton. >> anthony: and this? >> najip: mee siam. >> anthony: we are having longton. rice cake, coconut gravy, vegetables, and a hard-boiled egg. and mee siam, fried rice noodles with chili paste, prawns, bean sprouts and a spicy sweet and sour gravy, fried bean curd and an egg. delicious. i mean, ...

>> anthony: what are maids? >> tanya: maids, as in helpers. >> sudhir: helpers. >> tanya: i think you'll find that actually, if you look at singapore, a lot of woman are in the workforce. and the reason why that is so is because everyone's got a maid looking after their child at home. so maids are kind of like the opiate of the masses. >> anthony: wait, opiate keeps you slothful and laying on the couch. >> tanya: exactly! >> anthony: but if you have a maid, you're saying it frees you up to join the workforce. >> tanya: it frees you up, but it also means that my husband serve himself water. he ...

>> anthony: to many, singapore is the land of opportunity. people from all over the world come here to get a good job, to find a better life. >> mike: as an overseas chinese, we have been discriminated in laos, thailand, vietnam, indonesia, malaysia, in america, australia, all over the world. suddenly, you got this guy called lee kuan yew. there's nowhere else in the chinese world have a real leader as big as lee kuan yew. anthony: much of singapore's success is often credited to its first prime minister, lee kuan yeu, a singaporean of chinese descent considered the founding father of modern s...

Engineering that holds singapore together, as well as the favorable economic policies that have allowed it to thrive. michael ma arrived in singapore to take advantage of its business climate, becoming an early pioneer of singapore's now famous nightlife. back then, in the beginning, at the very beginning, was it a favorable business climate in the sense that, did they look upon your early efforts generously or kindly? or were they not so sure about this guy? how was it? >> mike: oh, no, singapore is fantastic. >> anthony: and what time did bars close? >> mike: 2:00. that's where the opportuni...