Singapore hunts for global ‘rainmakers’ with new expat visaA worker cleans the pond outside the ArtScience Museum with the city skyline in the background, in Singapore, on August 2, 2022. (AFP file photo)Singapore won’t limit the number of applicants for its newest work permit, Minister of Manpower Tan See Leng said, as the city-state seeks to burnish its appeal to the best minds globally. “What we are really hoping to bring to Singapore are the rainmakers,” Tan said, referring to the efforts to bring in leaders in fields across science, technology, engineering and math, as well as finance, arts, culture and sports. “In the competition for talent, we’re in a very, very hyped-up mode,” Tan told a panel of Bloomberg editors and reporters separately. “There’s hyper competition, and we are very careful about what we reveal, because we’re not going after the numbers.
