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Expatriates living in Asia have ranked Singapore as offering
the best quality of life, Thailand was second, followed by China, Malaysia and
Taiwan, with Hong Kong falling to a distant sixth, according to the latest
survey by the Political and Economic Risk Consultancy, which was made available
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The consulting firm surveyed 1,000 expatriates in the first
two months of this year. It was the first time that China, which was in seventh
place in 2001, had overtaken Hong Kong in the regular surveys, newspaper said.
PERC officials would not comment on the study. Respondents in China lived mostly
in Beijing and Shanghai, and attributed the improvement to construction of more
entertainment facilities, better security, medical services, education policies
and housing.
Hong Kong fell from fourth place and was criticised for its
pollution problems and expensive housing. Even though property prices in the
territory have fallen nearly 60 percent from their 1997 peaks, they still remain
expensive by international standards.
South Korea took seventh place, followed by Japan, the
Philipines, Vietnam and India, while Indonesia came in last at No.12.
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