SMU undergraduate Le Ha Thanh Mai shared that when she first arrived in Singapore from Vietnam on a scholarship, she was just 15 and did not know English. Six years on, she was held up as a success story of integration into the Singaporean society by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. She was even elected as the international students' secretary of the SMU Students' Association to lead efforts in helping international students integrate into the society.
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The Straits Times
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