'Singapore is not Shangri-La on earth': Anonymous_X

I'm referring to this Asiaone article, "'Bhutan is not Shangri-La on earth': Khaw". Yes, I must confess that I'm annoyed with the title of the article. So what if Bhutan is not Shangri-La on earth?! Neither is Singapore, Mr Khaw!!

Anyway, none of the real place on earth is Shangri-La. And that is simply because Shangri-La is fictional.

Partially quoted from Wikipedia, "Shangri-La":

Shangri-La is a fictional place described in the 1933 novel Lost Horizon by British author James Hilton. Hilton describes Shangri-La as a mystical, harmonious valley, gently guided from a lamasery, enclosed in the western end of the Kunlun Mountains.

Shangri-La has become synonymous with any earthly paradise but particularly a mythical Himalayan utopia — a permanently happy land, isolated from the outside world.

In the novel Lost Horizon, the people who live at Shangri-La are almost immortal, living years beyond the normal lifespan and only very slowly aging in appearance.