Nearly 94% of Malaysians who renounced citizenship chose Singapore, data shows

Most Malaysians who renounced their citizenship over the past five years went on to become Singaporeans, official data shows, underscoring the city state’s pull amid long-standing brain drain concerns. In the past five years, 61,116 Malaysians gave up their citizenship, Malaysia’s National Registration Department director general Badrul Hisham Alias said, as reported by the New Straits Times newspaper. Of those, nearly all – 57,314 individuals or close to 94 per cent – picked Singapore as their...