Looking for a professor job in Singapore

My current postdoc position at the City University of Hong Kong ends in September, so I plan to send out job applications in the next couple of weeks. I'd like to get a tenure-track research professor position in any of Singapore's four universities. Hong Kong is a great place to spend a couple of years to hone my research skills, but I miss the hot and muggy little island where I grew up. The problem is, I can't shake the feeling that I'm in for some major disappointment.

Here's the thing. I got my Ph.D. from the National University of Singapore. Not MIT, not Berkeley, but NUS. There's no concrete proof, but the overriding feeling is that Singaporean universities don't hire Singaporean professors unless they're superstars (I'm realistic enough to admit that although my CV is decent, I'm no Stephen Hawking).

When I told some of my friends that I was looking for a professor job in Singapore, one of them sent me this link to an article on tankinlian.com, which attributes the possible bias against hiring Singaporean professors to the foreigners in charge of the local universities. Another plausible theory is the fact that "ratio of international faculty" is a measure in ranking universities (e.g., QS Rankings, Times Higher Education Rankings). Sure, this measure is only 5% of the total, but why not bump that value up a little?

Anyway, I'll be sending out my job applications and crossing my fingers. If I don't get a bite this time, I'll probably get out of research academics altogether. At 37, it doesn't make sense for me to take another 2 or 3 years to find a university willing to hire me when I can be earning a decent wage in industry starting immediately.