SINGAPORE - Mr James Thoo cannot remember when he got married.
"Oh my goodness. I should know this thing," he says, flustered. He throws out figures hesitantly - eight years ago, 10 years - then settles, with a sigh of finality, on four (you find out later the year 2016 is tattooed on his left arm).
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