Wall Street Journal highlights ‘dodging Chinese tourists’ as biggest challenge of SG’s uni students …

SINGAPORE: It’s not unusual for Singapore’s top-ranked universities to be featured in the international media, but Nanyang Technological University and the National University of Singapore made the Wall Street Journal this week for a very unusual reason.

“Singapore College Students’ Toughest Test Is Dodging Chinese Tourists,” was the title of a piece by Chun Han Wong earlier this week.

This, of course, is not news to Singaporeans.

Stories about foreign visitors, mostly from China, descending on NUS and NTU have been in pieces in TODAY, CNA, and other local media sites from the beginning of the year, after students complained of being disturbed by tourists, some of whom came in large numbers.

There were…