Well, in the interests of making you feel even better, the following article, written in May of this year, is around the role of the EDB.....to create billion dollar businesses: http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/edbs-new-job-create-billion-dollar-businesses#main-content "After more than 50 years of drawing big foreign firms to Singapore's shores, the Economic Development Board's (EDB) "new job" was now "to create billion-dollar businesses" in Singapore from ventures of any size, start-ups and multinational corporations (MNCs) alike, chiefly by tapping the richer and maturing markets of South-east Asia". I also had a look into who else has partnered with the EDB over the past year. Within 5 minutes, I came up with Visa, MasterCard, Nestle, Airbus, Engie, Phillips, Siemens and IBM!! (Posting links to these will be messy from my phone, but a simple Google search will bring these up for you). As I said a couple of days with the Google article, we sure are in good company. GLTAL. A very optimistic Monk