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Singapore to rein in immigration

By Kevin Brown in Singapore

Published: September 16 2009 16:35 | Last updated: September 16 2009 16:35

Singapore is to impose curbs on immigration amid fears of social friction between citizens and hundreds of thousands of foreign workers who have poured into the country over the past decade.

Lee Hsien Loong, the prime minister, said Singapore had taken in more than 100,000 foreign workers a year for several years as high economic growth burnished the lure of south-east Asia’s richest country.