Burmese professionals earn good money in Singapore but still miss home... "I feel I am nothing,? said Bo Bo Win—a statement that?s hard to believe in view of his successful life in Singapore. Although he holds down a well-paid job as a senior engineer, with degrees from Burma?s best technical university and Singapore?s National University, Bo Bo Win is not a happy man. ?It?s so sad that we cannot contribute to the country where we were born and were first educated,? he says. ?There?s nothing here.? Bo Bo Win, who is in his thirties, is o?ne of an estimated 50,000 Burmese working in the city-state, most of them educated and skilled people who have joined a brain drain that puts additional strains o?n Burma?s weak economy. The loss of so many young professionals also weakens the country?s middle class, which is best equipped to help reduce poverty and strengthen the economy..."