SINGAPORE Table of Contents Introduction3-4 The Education in Singapore5 School grades6 Top Universities 7 Scholarship 8 Government Scholarship9 Private funds9 The government of Singapore10-11 Ministries and responsibilities of ministers12 Culture and truism 13-15 language16 religion16-19 art20-21 The economy in Singapore21-22 budgeting and planning22 Labor23 Foreign labor23 Trading partner24 Currency‚ trade and investment regulation 25 Financial Center Development25 Singapore’s
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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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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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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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Describe the main principles of good governance as articulated by Singapore leaders. Singapore continues to rank high globally on indexes that measure good governance‚ especially in terms of investment and corruption (Economic Development Board‚ 2013). Within the region‚ according to Vriens & Partners’ Asia Pacific Investment Climate Index 2013‚ Singapore was ranked second among Asian Pacific countries‚ after New Zealand‚ for rule of law‚ political stability‚ corruption and taxation. She was ranked
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utrecht university | Privatizing airports: Efficiency enhancing? | The case of the United Kingdom | Project group 6DJorn de Ruijter - 3813894David de Vos - 3805638Franceska Toader - 3726177Ruben Verdoorn - 3833259 | Supervisor: A. van den BergCourse: Institutional Economics (ECB2IE) | 28-10-2012 | 1 Introduction The UK Government transferred the ownership of the British Airports Authority from the Government to the private sector on the first of April 1987. After 25 years‚ more than
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Asiatravel.com 1 Table of Contents Section Greetings from Team Cerebration About NUS Business School Cerebration 2009: Our Case Sponsors Cerebration 2009: Strategic Partner SPRING Singapore Cerebration 2009: Competition Structure and Format Cerebration 2009: Targeted Timelines Instructions: Round 1 (Executive Summary) Instructions: Round 2 (Making the Business Plan) Case study: Asiatravel.com Page # 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Asiatravel.com 2 Greetings from Team Cerebration Thank you for
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Economy of Singapore Singapore enjoys a highly developed and successful free-market economy‚ a remarkably open and corruption-free business environment‚ stable prices and one of the highest per capita gross domestic products in the world. Exports‚ particularly in electronics and chemicals‚ and services provide the main source of revenue for the economy. Singapore is positioning itself as the region’s financial and high-tech center. Singapore’s economic strategy proved a success‚ producing real
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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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"Given the limited land available in Singapore‚ is it wise to set aside some areas as nature reserves?" Singapore‚ officially known as Republic of Singapore is a beautiful country in Southeast Asia. It comprises of 63 islands and the main island is known as the Singapore Island or Pulau Ujong in Malay. The territories of the country are expanding rapidly through land reclamation. The land reclamation process have increased its land area from 581.5 km2 in the 1960s to 718.3 km2 presently. After
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