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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Beauty Of Pinnacle At Duxton – An Overview Pinnacle at Duxton is the tallest unique housing project completed in 2009 situated in Singapore.80% of Singapore people living in Government houses. Because constructing a house in Singapore is very costly. Pinnacle is one of the important Government house in Singapore. It is the world’s first housing project that links seven towers with two sky bridges. Pinnacle has two longest sky garden of 500meterplaced in 26th and 50th floor. It have a total of 1848
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in Singapore. ERC Holdings was founded by a group of Singapore entrepreneurs in 1999 to cultivate a strong entrepreneurial culture in the city-state. ERC and ERC Institute have adopted a holistic approach to encourage entrepreneurship through specialized education‚ training and consultancy services that are tailor-made for the current and regional business environment. Our primary objective is to renew and invigorate the workforce to increase the level of employment. Besides Singapore‚ ERC
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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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development of the STB as the NTO. Singapore Tourism Board (STB)‚ which was formally known as Singapore Tourist Promotion Board (STPB)‚ was formulated to increase Singapore’s attractiveness to tourists. It’s primary roles were to coordinate activities with tourist enterprises‚ enhance and develop the infrastructure and superstructure of tourist facilities and attractions‚ regulate policies and standards within the tourism industry‚ and continually market Singapore as a tourism destination. Over the
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e-Government: The Singapore Arun Mahizhnan & Narayanan Andiappan Arun Mahizhnan is Deputy Director‚ Institute of Policy Studies‚ Singapore and Narayanan Andiappan is Assistant Manger‚ Infocomm Development Authority‚ Singapore Government. This paper draws heavily from resource materials provided by IDA. The views expressed are in the authors’ personal capacity. ___________________________________________________________________________ Introduction The term "e-Government" is used in this paper
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STB as an NTO. Singapore Tourism Board‚ was established in 1964 with the goal to promote Singapore as a tourist destination. The Statutory Board was established by the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Singapore‚ this indicates that the government recognised the tourism industry’s potential as a capable contributor to the economy. In the first year‚ STB only had 25 employees‚ who’s efforts welcomed 91 thousand tourists in that year. As a result of STB’s continuous effort‚ Singapore welcomed 16.4 million
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Statutory Rape I. Definition A. Rape 1. Crime‚ committed by a man or woman‚ of forcing another person to have sexual intercourse with him/her‚ esp. by the threat or use of violence. B. Statutory rape 1. In some jurisdictions- sexual activities below the age required to legally consent to the behavior‚ it can also be charged with sexual behaviors with two under aged minors. II. History and Victims A. When did rape start? 1. Rape has always been a problem‚ but more so now
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NOTES Interpretation of Statutes IOS201-6 1. GENERAL INTRODUCTION 1.1. Definition Statutory interpretation as a subject of study is the body of rules and principles used to construct and justify the meaning of legislative provisions to be applied in practical situations. 1.2. Why can statutes not be interpreted in a mechanical or rule-like fashion? Many rules of interpretation overlap and cannot be neatly compartmentalised as: the circumstances and sets of facts will differ from case to case
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profound competence of statutory interpretation and rules of statutory interpretation‚ they are few key elements and definition that must be referred to these concepts. Statutory interpretation is a source of law‚ which means‚ where laws are taken from to aid in the decision making process by the courts‚ and this is how the courts apply and interpret the legislations or acts of Parliament within a situation or a court case. To aid in the Courts’ application of the law‚ rules of statutory interpretation
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