THE FOUNDING OF MODERN SINGAPORE In late 1818‚ Lord Hastings – the British Governor General of India – appointed Lieutenant General Sir Stamford Raffles to establish a trading station at the southern tip of the Malay peninsula. The British were extending their dominion over India and their trade with China was expanding. They saw the need for a port of call to “refit‚ revitalize and protect their merchant fleet” as well as to prevent any advances made by the Dutch in the East Indies. After surveying
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Preparing for the Google IPO: A revolution in the making Wenying Li‚ Xue Lin‚ Yankai Wang October 28‚ 2014 Upon deciding to raise capital for operations and growth‚ a company looks into preparing an initial public offering to get access to capital market. Unlike other companies following conventional IPO processes‚ Google‚ the largest search engine company‚ revolutionized equity markets with unconventional price-setting mechanism‚ reduced role for the underwriters‚ and dual-class shareholder structure
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words or ideas used in an assignment submission do not represent your original words or ideas‚ you must cite all relevant sources and make clear the extent to which such sources were used. Words o r ideas that require citation include‚ but are not limited to‚ all hard copy or electronic publications‚ whether copyrighted or not‚ and all verbal or visual communication when the content of such
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Facebook after IPO Facebook was founded in February 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin‚ Andrew McCollum‚ Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. "Facebook was not originally created to be a company‚" CEO Mark Zuckerberg wrote in his SEC Registration letter a little more than three months before Facebook went public on May 18‚ 2012. It was built to accomplish a social mission — to make the world more open and connected." Facebook
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was caused by UMNO’s policies. The spotlight of this statement is the correspondance of the seperation of Singapore from Malaysia‚ due to the policies carried out by the United Malay National Organisation. During this post-war period‚ although Singapore was already a part of Malaysia‚ their relationship was uncertain due to the political tension and differences in ideology between Singapore and the Malayan states at that time. It has been reviewed that Source A and B talks about the policies of UMNO
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brief overview of the Malays in Singapore and thereafter the progress that they have made as an ethnic group and their gender equality. In pre-colonial Singapore‚ the Malays are the indigenous people living on the island. It is also essential to lend credit to Sang Nila Utama who renamed the island of Temasek to ‘Singapura’ which consists of a combination of two Malay words; Singa meaning ‘lion’ and ‘pura’ meaning temple. As the British came and established Singapore as a trading port‚ large numbers
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Lush. Greenery. Justice. Freedom. Singapore‚ to me‚ means a lot more. What may seem to be a normal piece of rock to one‚ might seem like gold to another. We have to see Singapore as gold‚ treasure‚ and value it. The world is filled with uniqueness and differences. Singapore‚ being a little red dot‚ is filled with her own uniqueness. Although life in Singapore is hectic‚ it is filled with the pleasure of people and the contentment of solitude. Life in Singapore is balanced with both good and bad things
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com Br J Ophthalmol 2001;85:521–526 521 Myopia in Singapore: taking a public health approach Benjamin Seet‚ Tien Yin Wong‚ Donald T H Tan‚ Seang Mei Saw‚ Vivian Balakrishnan‚ Lionel K H Lee‚ Arthur S M Lim Defence Medical Research Institute‚ Singapore B Seet L K H Lee Medical Classification Centre‚ Singapore Armed Forces‚ Singapore B Seet Singapore National Eye Center and Singapore Eye Research Institute‚ Singapore T Y Wong D T H Tan V Balakrishnan A S M Lim Department
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carriages) as the main mode of cheap transport in Singapore.[2] A comprehensive study of the “rickshaw” in 1921 Singapore necessarily examines rickshaws as a mode of transport‚ as well as an avenue to gain insights into the lives of rickshaw pullers. In the latter sense‚ rickshaws serve to bring the lives of the common people into sharper contrast‚ creating a social history of sorts. This essay will first analyse rickshaws as a transport form in 1921 Singapore‚ before proceeding to the individual pullers
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As Singapore is a small and relatively modern amalgam of Chinese‚ Malay‚ Indian and European immigrants‚ the culture of Singapore expresses the diversity of the population as the various ethnic groups continue to celebrate their own cultures while they intermingle with one another. For example‚ one can find a Malay wedding taking place beside a Chinese funeral. Singapore has achieved a significant degree of cultural diffusion with its unique combination of these ethnic groups‚ and has given Singapore
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