Jurong West fast becoming mini-Myanmar

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Mr Win Phyo, 35
PR for three years before taking up citizenship in 2008
From: Myanmar
Home: Five-room flat in Jurong West
Mr Win Phyo and his father paid $379,000 for the third-floor resale unit last year.
The price was $14,000 above valuation and they move in today .
He picked Jurong West as he wanted to live in an area favoured by other Myanmar immigrants too.
'It's important to stay near my friends so when I need help, I can go to them,' said Mr Win, who is single.
He is an assistant manager in a telecommunications firm in Jurong.
He came here to do a master's in Consumer Electronics at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in 2002.
When he got his permanent residency in 2005, he rented HDB flats in Jurong East and Bukit Batok.
These areas were popular with Myanmar folk too because they were close to where most of them worked.
Mr Win was then working as a software engineer in Changi. But he did not mind the long commute as he was familiar with western Singapore from his NTU days.
Immigrants who rent flats were flagged by Members of Parliament earlier last week, after the issue of ethnic enclaves was raised by Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew.
They pointed out that renting in the same areas - and not necessarily buying the flats - has contributed to PRs congregating.
Mr Win bought his Jurong West flat two years after he became a citizen in 2008.
There are about 10 other Myanmar immigrants - either PRs or those who are now citizens - living in flats a few minutes' walk from his place.
None of them lives in his block. The group usually meet for lunch on weekends. 'They will cook for me too when I'm busy - traditional Myanmar food like sour soups,' said Mr Win.
He is making efforts to mingle with Chinese Singaporean neighbours and has shared food with them.
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[yellow_people]

Looks like the 75% majority are being chased out of every corner. Enter LKY to the rescue with ethnic quotas for foreigners. What really then is the use of being the mollycoddled majority?

 

[singveld]

damn them.

that why i always support PAP to sell more weapons to their gov.

did you watch the movie MOVING to MARS.

it is because we sell the weapons to their gov that these people live the good life in singapore and west.

PAP must sell more weapons.

 

[mscitw]

Soon, they will start growing poppies and create a mini Golden Triangle at Jurong West.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

Looks like the 75% majority are being chased out of every corner. Enter LKY to the rescue with ethnic quotas for foreigners. What really then is the use of being the mollycoddled majority?

u stupid dog ur shit skin race and other races are also sinkees.

 

[saratogas]

Under Ethnic Integration Policy, Sri Lankan is classified as Indian; Bangladeshi, Pakistani, northern Hindi-speaking Indians are all classified as 'Indians'. Mainland Chinese, Taiwanese or Chinese-Indonesians, are all classified under 'Chinese'.

So these Myanmarese are classified as ? Malay, Chinese, Indian, Others? There will be many Others rite?

 

[Internet Brigade]

All this is the doing of the people of singapore and not the government.

Remember its picky singaporeans who do not fill the less fashionable jobs that lead to the influx of these foreign nationals.

Then its the picky singaporeans who did not want to stay in the less fashionable neighbourhoods such as jurong west... resulting in these enclaves.