business interactions include: • “When entering the meeting environment‚ let a senior member lead‚ followed by the next senior member‚ and so on. This follows local custom and allows your hosts to keep tabs on who ’s who. Hierarchy reigns. The Singapore team will sit facing the visiting party‚ with persons of equal rank sitting opposite each other” (Worldroom‚ para. 6) • “Always wait to be told where to sit. There is a strict hierarchy that must be followed” (Kwintessential‚ Business Etiquette
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political stability are maintained. The People’s Action Party dominated the Singaporean politics since the independence from leaving the Federal of Malaysia in 1965. Singapore is classed as a "Hybrid" country by the Economist intelligent unit because Singaporean politics is a mixture of bureaucracy and democracy. Also Freedom House rank Singapore as "partly free". Western democracies considered the Singaporean government is closer to bureaucratic instead of democratic or illiberal and procedural democratic
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After Independence in 1965‚ the population of the country was growing at a rate that would seriously threaten the success of Singapore. The Government introduced the "Stop at two" policy to help control the rapid population growth. It was introduced in 1969. The policy had a very successful response; in fact‚ it was so successful that the population started to decline. Couples saw the benefits in having a smaller family‚ such as more money‚ higher quality of life and cars. The population increase
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Introduction Since Singapore gained its independence in 1965‚ its economy had progressed due to globalization‚ rapid technological advances and the rise of China and India. With these different stages of development‚ Singapore’s labor market had adapted itself by transforming from a labor abundant and capital limited city into a labor deficient and capital rich country (Chia 2005). Singapore is now a popular export-manufacturing base‚ regional headquarter for foreign multinational company and
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Higher Modern Studies Immigration and the USA Keir Lynch 5W1 June 2014 Every year‚ 700‚000 immigrants move to the United States of America in search of a better life with the hope of one day living the American Dream. It is not hard to see why the US is so appealing. As US citizen’s‚ immigrants can earn more and are protected with the rights of the constitution‚ they are less likely to be living in poverty and there are endless opportunities. Often‚ these pull factors exceed anything compared
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argue that Singapore will always be a nation in the making. Although Singapore’s nation building efforts have been successful‚ there is still a continual need for nation building efforts to persist as Singapore is a vulnerable migrant society‚ aptly illustrated as “an 80-storey building standing on marshy land” by Lee Kuan Yew. This reveals continual nation-building is critical for Singapore as it ensures her survival amidst vulnerabilities. What defines “a nation in the making”? Singapore will always
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Description of the campaign: The Fall of Singapore is considered to be one of Britain’s worst defeats in the World War II. It occurred on 15 February 1942 and marked a dramatic victory for the Japanese. It displayed the immense power of Japan and the threat they had upon many countries in the world. This battle involved both savage methods and ended with the atomic bombing on Hiroshima in August 1945. Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor‚ Japan was able to pursue their other military
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INTRODUCTION Rice imported from Fukushima went on sale in Singapore on 22nd August after a lift in restrictions of Japanese food imports. The restrictions were imposed after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011‚ resulting in severe radioactive substance leakage into the environment. This has huge implications on Japan’s agriculture industry as the radioactive leakage contaminated the surrounding farm lands. The lift was announced after a meeting between Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and
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2007 was strong economic growth for the global economy. This was due to tight global refining capacity and continued strong demand for energy to fuel economic growth especially from China‚ India‚ the Middle East and Russia. Singapore Petroleum Co Ltd (SPC) is a Singapore-based company. The principal activities of the Company consist of exploring‚ developing and producing oil and gas‚ petroleum refining‚ marketing‚ distribution and trading of crude oil and petroleum products and the provision of
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developments found within Singapore society may vary from different trends technical‚ social‚ global or even with the increasing of other high technological tools. The possibility of people being connecting and communicating by mobile devices‚ work being done by robots instead of human beings and digital books replacing real books. In the near future‚ globalization will continue with more and more people moving over to other parts of the world. The population of Singapore will have more retirees
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