The Singapore Tourism Board (STB) hopes to increase the number of foreign students in Singapore from the current 50,000 to 150,000 in the next seven years.
Students come mainly from Japan and other Asian countries, but the STB hopes to expand its outreach programme to include countries in the Middle East.
The programme involves a series of study trips for the foreign students.
The STB hopes that the happy memories of such study trips will lead them to make Singapore their top choice when it comes to studying abroad.
At one such trip, a campfire was organised for a group of foreign students aged between eight and 15 years old.
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Stop issuing negative travel advisories: Pak to US
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Pakistani officials said that though US investors were visiting Pakistan to help increase the Foreign Direct Investment, the truth remained that a negative image of Pakistan still persisted as a result of the negative travel advisories being issued for the last so many years.
Earlier US Under secretary of State of Treasury for International Affairs John B Taylor during his meeting
Negative US travel advisory ‘causing harm’
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Sources said that visiting United States Under secretary of State of Treasury for International Affairs John B Taylor was told this in a number of meetings with senior Pakistani authorities.
The officials informed Taylor that more US companies and investors could invest in Pakistan provided no negative travel advisories were still being issued by the Bush administration.
The US secretary of treasury, who called on Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz
