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Deputy Prime Minister Lawrence Wong’s TikTok account.

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SINGAPORE - TikTok has grown by leaps and bounds since its parent company ByteDance arrived in Singapore in September 2018.
In just four years, it has gone from a small set-up staffed with a few people in a co-working space to brand new offices occupying several floors at One Raffles Quay in the Central Business District, with hundreds of employees.
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