Singapore has long enjoyed a reputation as the cleanest and least corrupt city in Southeast Asia, which may be why multinationals such as GE Energy (GE), Citibank (C), and Pfizer (PFE) have made it their home base for the region. But while Singapore offers the kind of security that corporate strategic planners like, it's also, well, a bit stiff—a place where chewing gum can only be sold by pharmacies and defacing public property with graffiti is punishable by a half-dozen swift strokes of the cane.
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