Chapter 331: The Chinese Chamber of Commerce and the Shocking Letter From the Immigration Department

"Mr. Li, can I learn more about your current investment project library?"

"Sure! Desha, please bring me the laptop on my desk, I will give Mr. Lin a brief demonstration..."

After Desha brought Li Xiaofan's new Compaq laptop, Li Xiaofan used PPT to briefly introduce several investment targets to Lin Guotai. Of course, the real names of the invested companies were replaced by letters such as A, B, and C.

"Company A was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California, USA. The founder is also a Chinese American who graduated from the famous Oregon State University and Stanford University. The founder worked as a senior engineer at two famous chip companies, AMD and LSI Logic. The other two co-founders worked at the famous American SUN Sun Microsystems. The company is currently developing the third-generation graphics chip and plans to be listed on NASDAQ within two years..."

"Company B was founded in Silicon Valley last year. The four co-founders are also Chinese. One of the co-founders in charge of technology, Dr. Chen, is a doctor from Tsinghua University and once worked as a senior engineer at National Semiconductor. They have successfully developed the first generation of CIS image sensor chips. Currently, only two companies in the world can develop this chip, and the current product technical parameters of Company B are far greater than those of another European company. This project is planned to be listed on NASDAQ within 2-3 years..."

"This C project is planned to be led by a world-renowned magnetic expert who once worked as a senior R&D director at a famous American multinational company. The initial plan is to invest US$10 million. Yuan, set up a high-end media and head R&D center in Singapore to develop and produce world-class hard disk dedicated heads and magnetic sensor chips..."

Finally, Li Xiaofan concluded: "Mr. Lin, if you are really interested in becoming an LP partner of our first phase of Yifan Venture Capital Fund. After signing the investment intention and confidentiality agreement, I can take you to the Silicon Valley in the Bay Area of ​​the United States to inspect one or two projects. "

After listening carefully, Lin Guotai nodded and said: "Well, very good! Mr. Li, thank you for your detailed introduction. So, do you have the fundraising introduction materials for your first phase of Yifan Venture Capital Fund? If there is, please give me a copy. I will go back and study and digest it. I will reply to you after I report and discuss with our group headquarters. What do you think? "

"No problem, Mr. Lin. Anyway, I have the email address on your business card. I will send you a copy of our first phase of the Yifan Venture Capital Fund plan by email later!"

"That's great, Mr. Li. Once our group headquarters confirms this investment plan, we will trouble you to arrange for us to visit the target company in the United States..."

The "group headquarters" mentioned by Lim Kok Thay is actually his father, Lim Goh Tong, the current helmsman of Genting Group. Lim Kok Thay will not take over Genting Group until the end of 2002.

From the tone of Lim Kok Thay's words, Li Xiaofan can feel that he seems to be very interested in participating in the first phase of the Yifan Venture Capital Fund, because they have already talked about visiting the invested projects in the United States together in the future.

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After seeing off Lim Kok Thay and his party, Li Xiaofan received a call from Diana Yang, president of the Singapore Small and Medium Enterprise Association.

Diana Yang first congratulated Li Xiaofan on the successful listing of the Yahoo project invested by him in the United States, and then told Li Xiaofan that he had recently become famous and alarmed the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

Tomorrow, one of her friends, a vice president of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce named Jiang Changsheng, wants to visit Li Xiaofan and asked Li Xiaofan if it would be convenient for him to receive him.

Diana Yang is also the chairman of the Youth Business Committee of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

The Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce was established in 1906. It is the oldest business group in Singapore and the highest leadership organization of the Chinese business community in Singapore. It enjoys a good reputation on the international business stage.

Currently, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce has more than 120 business group members and more than 3,000 business members. The huge chamber of commerce network covers more than 30,000 multinational companies, government-linked institutions, large financial and commercial organizations and small and medium-sized enterprises from all walks of life in Singapore.

Vice President Jiang Changsheng is also a successful local entrepreneur and is highly respected in the business community of Singapore.

Li Xiaofan of course promised Diana Yang to receive Vice President Jiang Changsheng tomorrow. It is a great honor to be favored by the leaders of the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce.

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In the evening, Li Xiaofan stayed in the office to work overtime.

After the US stock market opened at 9:30, Li Xiaofan looked at Yahoo's stock market on the computer for a while.

The Yahoo stock price that opened tonight fell slightly after opening, fluctuating around US$76.

Anyway, Yahoo stock cannot be sold now. Li Xiaofan looked at the stock market, replied to a few emails, and went back to the townhouse dormitory.

As soon as he returned to the dormitory living room, Liu Mengchen and Guo Hanyue excitedly showed Li Xiaofan several newspapers published today: "Boss, we are really famous!"

The Singapore Straits Times and Lianhe Zaobao published today both published interviews with Li Xiaofan and early investors of Yahoo, such as Guo Hanyue and Liu Mengchen.

Li Xiaofan had read them all in the office in the morning. In addition to the exclusive interview, today's financial edition of the Straits Times also included photos of Li Xiaofan, Guo Hanyue and Liu Mengchen.

"Haha, you guys are finally reading the English version of Straits Times now?" Li Xiaofan said teasingly.

Guo Hanyue said with a smile: "We bought it after the Straits Times reporter came to interview us yesterday! Moreover, our English teacher also suggested that we read more English newspapers and magazines every day to increase our vocabulary and sense of language..."

"Well, very good! Then you two should stick to it, and don't fish for three days and dry the net for two days. I will supervise you!"

After Li Xiaofan finished speaking, he remembered that incident: "I will ask the company's human resources department to help you apply for EP employment permits tomorrow, and you two just wait for good news!"

"Wow, great, thank you Boss Li!"

After Liu Mengchen finished speaking, he rushed over and hugged Li Xiaofan warmly.

"Crazy girl, you are so frivolous!" Guo Hanyue said jealously on the side.

Liu Mengchen laughed and said, "Yueyue, this is the Western style of hugging etiquette, okay? My hug represents my gratitude to our boss Li!"

When Li Xiaofan came down from upstairs to get his change of clothes and was about to go to the bathroom on the first floor to take a shower, Guo Hanyue called him and handed him a thin letter: "Afan, I forgot just now, here is an English letter for you..."

"Oh, give it to me."

Li Xiaofan took the letter handed over by Guo Hanyue and saw that it was an envelope with a transparent window.

The envelope was printed with the logo of the ICA organization. ICA is the abbreviation of The  Immigration  Checkpoints  Authority in English, which translates to "Singapore Immigration Department".

Li Xiaofan felt very strange. Why did the Immigration Department send him a letter?

After opening it and looking at the contents inside, Li Xiaofan was shocked!