Singapore-Hong Kong Exchange Programme This Singapore tour is the most interesting trip I have ever had. At first‚ I just expect I could improve my English through this tour. But I have got more than I expected‚ for example friends‚ and knowledge. After this tour‚ I discovered that there are many differences between Hong Kong and Singapore. For example the education‚ students in Hong Kong always have stress because we have lots of homework. But in Singapore‚ they don’t have much homework.
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Parliament is the national representative body which has supreme legislative powers within its jurisdiction. While it oversees the completion of a number of other tasks parliaments’ main role is undoubtedly to make and pass laws and it has to be said that it achieves this role efficiently. Parliament and the members of parliament are elected solely by the people and are therefore responsible to the voting public. When passing laws parliament has the ability to‚ as part of its law making process obtain
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faced difficulties with parliament. These difficulties weren’t simply limited to his determination to seek a union with Scotland‚ there were far more issues and instances which caused difficulties with parliament such as clashes between royal prerogative and parliamentary privilege‚ finance and how James raised money. James’ proposition for union with Scotland caused many difficulties with parliament as he was hugely enthusiastic about it‚ yet on the other hand parliament despised the thought of
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Singapore Model Cabinet – Cabinet A‚ Environmental Security Council Topic 1: Should our islets be developed? Ministry of Education Position Paper Introduction Singapore is a small city-state surrounded by the sea‚ lacking in most forms of natural resource sans human capital. Among its most limited resources is Singapore’s physical land area of about 71 000 hectares (ha) . The government has already laid out our intention to continue to expand our land area via reclamation works off the coasts to
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Gender stereotyping applies across all echelons of society in Singapore. Across the world in countries both like and unlike Singapore‚ gender stereotyping is present and continues to be prevalent even in the modern and liberal societies that exist today. While other countries have women as their top leaders‚ it is ironic that in the Singapore parliament‚ less than 20% of the Members of Parliament are women as women make up half of our society. Media has also played a large part in contributing
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Tembusu at Botanic Gardens The Tembusu tree is one of Singapore’s 161 heritage trees native to Singapore. It is also featured on the back of the Singapore $5 note. At more than a hundred years old‚ it has stood the test of time‚ a war‚ pests and the demands of generations of visitors to the Botanic Gardens. With a long bow branch upon which adults rest and children perch‚ it has also become a favourite photographic haunt for wedding couples‚ tourists and families alike. A hardy and long-lived tree
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Chee and daughter-in-law‚ two grandsons and three great-grandsons. He had devoted 25 years of his life to serving the nation in the ministries of defence‚ finance and education. Born into a middle-income Peranakan family in Malacca‚ he came to Singapore when he was two years old. His early education was at Anglo-Chinese School (1927–1936) and later at Raffles College (1936–1939). Armed with a diploma in arts‚ he entered the colonial civil service in 1939‚ but his career was interrupted by the
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1. How did Singapore achieve extremely high economic growth rates after 1965? Singapore’s high economic growth rates since 1965 may arise from government centralized control and vision. Singapore government was a core organization‚ formulated strategic plans to correspond with each period necessities and future needs. We separated in two main periods: The 1960s-1970s Issue: Minimal natural resources and a population of two million people High unemployment rate and low capital base
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best article because it gives specific detail about the laws in Singapore and why the trial wasn’t fair to the eighteen-year-old American.
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To what extent does the parliament hold the executive to account? Parliament does not govern‚ but its role is to check or constrain the government of the day. Many therefore argue that parliament’s most important function is to ‘call the government to account’’‚ there by forcing the members to explain their actions and justify their policies. There are three groups within the UK parliament‚ the House of Commons‚ the House of Lords‚ and the Monarchy. The HoC consists of 646 MP’s and each MP is
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