Real talent (albeit $$$-faced) leave Singapore. Thanks, Philip.

[Confuseous]

"I'm speaking out as "citizen Lee," not as MM's daughter, or PM's sister," clarified Dr Lee Wei Ling, when she called for a reassessment of Singapore's biotech strategy, saying billions of dollars have been spent without achieving significant results. The target of her scrutiny, Philip Yeo, formerly of A*Star, had coined the term "whales" for the foreign imports. He probably meant it as an euphemism for "prize catch", but his recruits obviously had a whale of a time here while the going was good.

- http://singaporedesk.blogspot.com/2011/08/thanks-but-no-thanks.html