Singapore a popular base for China tech firms
In the second of a six-part BT-Lianhe Zaobao series on China capital flows to Asean, we look at the trend of China tech firms setting up their regional headquarters in Singapore
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FOUR years ago, when Derek Wang, general manager of Alibaba Cloud arrived in Singapore, he was among the company's first employees to be posted overseas, and only one of a handful of top executives from a China tech company to be posted here.
But these days, he meets more and more of his industry peers from China here.
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