Chapter 486: Weird Singaporean Divorce and Good News

Li Xiaofan was a little surprised by the sudden request from two girls living together under his roof to return to China to start a business.

"It may not be as easy as you think to open a store and start a business in China, but you must be prepared to endure hardship..."

Guo Hanyue replied: "Afan, we have gone through the entire process from the opening of Yifan Optical glasses store to now. Now with the support of you and the Singapore headquarters, I am confident to return to my hometown of Chengdu to open a new Yifan Optical glasses store. And run it well!”

Then, she said to Liu Mengchen: "Mengchen, please don't go back to China for the time being. If we leave two store managers at once, it will affect the business here in Singapore."

Regarding Guo Hanyue's suggestion, Liu Mengchen thought for a moment. Returning to her hometown of Chengdu for Yueyue to develop would indeed help her take care of her sick father and elderly mother at home, and then said: "Sister Yueyue, I won't compete with you."

Li Xiaofan saw that Guo Hanyue seemed very determined, and agreed: "Yueyue, in this way, I will ask the company to send a few capable people to help you go to Chengdu to build an optical store, and wait until the optical store gets on the normal track of business. Withdraw it. Your EP pass does not need to be revoked, it will continue to be valid, and you can apply for PR in the future..."

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The next day, Li Xiaofan arrived at the Singapore Science Park office and had just sat down when Li Yanping came in excitedly with a report and reported: "Director Li, the sales data of our Pacific Online Bookstore has been rising in recent days. It has been steadily crushing The other party is Dazhong Online Bookstore. According to estimates, our Pacific Online Bookstore currently occupies more than 80% of the online market share. Dazhong Bookstore’s online sales data has shrunk, and their sales data have returned to relying on offline physical stores..."

"Very good, let's continue to pursue the victory. We can't take it lightly to prevent the opponent from counterattacking!"

In the evening, before getting off work, Aileen came to Li Xiaofan's office to sit for a while.

"Afan, a few days ago, through the lawyers of both parties, I signed a divorce agreement with Amin and started a formal separation. I have now moved to the east coast apartment given to me by the Tang family..."

"Oh, so fast?"

"Well, I don't want to drag it out any longer. My youth has almost been used up by the Tang family, so I might as well make a quick mess. Separate for a while, and then wait for the Singapore Family and Juvenile Court to officially rule on divorce!"

Li Xiaofan once heard a joke from Singaporeans asking "What is the most difficult thing to do in Singapore?". The first thing many Singaporeans thought of was "Divorce is the most difficult thing"! Singapore’s divorce is notoriously difficult around the world.

Singapore's "Women's Charter" stipulates that in principle, couples are not allowed to file for divorce within three years of marriage, unless the marriage causes serious hardship to one party or seriously violates social ethics. According to Singaporean jurisprudence, the purpose of this unreasonable-sounding regulation is to "maintain the sanctity and solemnity of marriage and make the public realize that marriage is not a child's play and cannot be concluded or divorced as they please."

In Singapore, every divorce is a litigation divorce case. Even if both parties agree to the divorce, they must go through litigation procedures.

However, Singapore's judicial system also encourages couples like Erin and Tang Jiaming who have reached an agreement on divorce-related matters to apply for divorce according to the non-adversarial simplified procedure, which will eliminate all court proceedings and only require the submission of corresponding legal documents to the court.

If their divorce application is accepted by the Family and Juvenile Court of Singapore, the court will issue a temporary divorce order (decree nisi) without the other party raising a defense when hearing the divorce application.

Then the two parties begin to separate. After the couple resolves issues such as child custody and distribution of marital assets, the court will issue a divorce decree absolute (decree nisi absolute), officially declaring the divorce proceedings to be over.

During this period of separation, if the two parties have disputes over child custody and distribution of marital assets, it will become a marathon lawsuit.

Moreover, during the separation period, it must be a complete separation. Not only can there be no sexual intercourse, but there can also be no other behaviors that show that the two parties still have feelings for each other. For example, the woman cooks, washes and irons clothes for the man, or the two parties attend former classmates or events together in the name of husband and wife. Friends’ party…

Otherwise, if one party regrets and provides evidence, the marriage will not be divorced.

In Singapore, there is no equality between men and women in divorce, and the Marriage and Family Law is not called the Marriage Law, but the Women's Charter. As the name suggests, this is a law that protects the interests of women. In fact, it is indeed a product of the upsurge of the international women's movement in the 1960s. According to Singapore's "Women's Charter", after divorce, the man is obliged to pay alimony to the woman until the other party gets married. But a woman does not need to pay alimony to a man, even if she is richer than the man.

This is obviously unfair to men.

In Singapore, if a man unfortunately gets divorced several times in his life, then he has to pay alimony to his first ex-wife, second ex-wife, third ex-wife...

If none of his ex-wives get married, he will basically never make a fortune in this life.

In Singapore-style divorce, this period will be relatively long. Many people drag it on and are really tired, and finally decide not to divorce. In Li Xiaofan's previous life, a Singaporean colleague borrowed a book called "Divorce Encyclopedia" from the community library. After reading it halfway, he gave up the idea of ​​​​divorcing. I went, this divorce is really hard!

Singapore's bizarre divorce system makes divorce very costly for men.

Fortunately, Irene and Tang Jiaming have no children, and they have reached an agreement on the distribution of property after divorce. They can go through simplified procedures for divorce. Otherwise, according to Singapore's laws, they have to be officially separated for at least three years before they can divorce.

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In the evening, before leaving the office, Li Xiaofan received an email from Dr. Chen Datong of OVT Technology.

Dr. Chen told Li Xiaofan a good news in the email that they have successfully developed the world's first single-chip color CMOS image sensor (CIS). Compared with the traditional 4-chip CCD image sensor, this CIS sensor has dozens or even hundreds of times the improvement in cost, volume and power consumption compared to CCD products!

After seeing this good news, Li Xiaofan was shocked: Wow, it's amazing!

In the previous life, this CIS product had to wait until the beginning of 1997 next year to be developed. Now, after his own venture capital funds were invested, the research and development time has been shortened by several months.

Today, Dr. Datong Chen and his team have creatively designed and produced image sensors using CMOS technology, ushering in a new era of replacing CCD with CMOS.

The early development success of Dr. Chen and his team's CIS products means that an industrial revolution in image sensor technology will be triggered, and the dream of taking photos for mobile phone users around the world will soon come true!