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	Cinema of Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After independence, in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Singapore had no film industry, being more concerned with the bread-and-butter issues of economic nation-building.
		It also demonstrated the potential of the Singapore film industry, and the next year would be a boom year for local films.
		Interestingly, this short film was passed uncensored by the board and was seen during the Singapore Film Festival, but there were open discussions about it during local parliamentary sessions prompting remarks that the government was "not amused" by the thinly veiled attack on Singapore censorship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cinema_of_Singapore (1042 words)

	Cinema of Hong Kong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The cinema of Hong Kong is one of the four major threads in the history of Chinese language cinema, alongside the cinema of China, the Cinema of Singapore, and the cinema of Taiwan.
		It is a thoroughly commercial cinema: highly corporate, concentrating on crowd-pleasing genres like comedy and action, and relying heavily on formulas, sequels and remakes.
		Cantonese cinema virtually vanished in the face of Mandarin studios and Cantonese television, which became available to the general population in 1967; in 1972 no films in the local dialect were made (Bordwell, 2000).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cinema_of_Hong_Kong (4742 words)

	Singapore Enables Digital Cinema Transmission across Continents. - Business Wire - HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Singapore is well-placed as the regional digital distribution hub for content leveraging on its cutting-edge infocomms infrastructure, well-established status as a business hub, competitive regulatory policies, strong IP rights protection and ready availability of skilled manpower.
		Singapore's network infrastructure is also particularly well-suited for digital delivery of data centre space with its 26 Tbps of submarine cable capacity and international and regional telecoms connectivity to more than 100 countries.
		Singapore's recent launch of business continuity and disaster recovery standards means that the cinema industry can have a higher level of confidence in the security and reliability of the digital cinema data storage facilities.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:130245411&refid=holomed_1 (1134 words)

	Why cinema is important to Singapore, and its current status (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		I think the importance of the film aesthetic is a key component to the appreciation of Singapore cinema, both in terms of the local and foreign audience.
		Singapore films are caught in a chicken and egg situation whereby we need a successful track record and body of work to ensure consistency of funding, yet it is hard for funds to be found because of the very lack of track record and volume of work.
		Singapore's film community is small, and tightly knit, it is on the way to expand and accommodate, but in doing so, we must not forget that an industry is built only when film production become regarded as a career that can be sustained.
	asef.on2web.com /subSite/seaimages/WhycinemaisimportanttoSingaporeanditscurrentstatus.htm (1188 words)

	NUS: Library: A Sense of History: Singapore: Social Life & Conditions
		Singapore: Dept. of Sociology, University of Singapore, 1973.
		Singapore: Department of Sociology, University of Singapore, 1973.
		A comprehensive study of population trends and patterns in Singapore since 1819 covering topics such as population growth and structure, migration, mortality, marriage and divorce, population control, fertility, and the labour force.
	www.lib.nus.edu.sg /bib/sh/singsocial.html (1570 words)

	Singapore Cinema: In Search of Identity
		The eagerness to find audiences beyond Singapore is due to the general sentiment that the island's population of less than four million is too small to sustain a profitable national film industry.
		Although the Republic has had one of the highest annual per capita cinema attendance rates in the world, peaking in the 1970s at around 19.3 per inhabitant, the figure has been declining steadily, hitting 5.2 with the financial crisis in 1998; today the figure would be around 4.
		One way young Singapore filmmakers have countered rising production costs and declining ticket sales is by switching to digital video, a format which is much cheaper to use than 35mm film and therefore kinder to experimentation and the trial-and-error of novice filmmakers and inexperienced actors.
	www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /yvo011.htm (2106 words)

	English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Through the global influence of native English speakers in cinema, music, broadcasting, science, and the Internet in recent decades, English is now the most widely learned second language in the world.
		English is also the most widely used language for young backpackers who travel across continents, regardless of whether it is their mother tongue or a secondary language.
		In Asia, former British colonies like Singapore and Malaysia use English as their official language, and is taught in all private and public schools as a mandatory subject.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/English_language (5242 words)

	Film festival director about censorship in Singapore
		SINGAPORE, which is one of Asia's most modern cities, has a promising arts scene with several theatres, film production facilities, and a number of contemporary galleries and art museums.
		She came to Singapore before 1991 and cuts were demanded in her film the Asthenic Syndrome.
		In fact, all the art cinemas in Singapore have died-they have all gone in the last three years.
	www.singapore-window.org /sw00/000424ws.htm (1000 words)

	Singapore HQ : Singapore
		Webpage by Singapore Science Centre which is a non-formal educational institutionfor the promotion of science and technology among students and members of the...
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		Singapore HQ excludes all liability of any kind (including negligence) in respect of any third party information or other material made available on, or which can be accessed using, this Website.
	singaporehq.com (747 words)

	Singapore
		In Singapore, the glamorous stars drew the crowds and were mobbed during personal appearances.
		Singapore film makers produced their own Kungfu film in 1973, Ring of Fury, which was in colour and was widescreen.
		Kenneth Tan of the Singapore Film Society says that the Singapore film festival could not have come at a better time - "people were getting titillated already but the appetite had not been fully sated and just exploded with a big delicious bang".
	www.hsse.nie.edu.sg /staff/blackburn/Singapore.htm (6007 words)

	Cake & Polka Parade
		Singapore Sling is a damaged man who has never recovered from the inexplicable disappearance of his girlfriend Laura.
		For years he searches for any sign of her -- until one rainy night, fate brings him to the home of two psychotic women who may be mother and daughter, or perhaps lovers, or maybe even the elusive Laura and her demented captor who has bound her in a web of violent sex games.
		Both were right in their own way; Singapore Sling is a riotous comedy, and it is informed by a certain sense of tragedy, but it's also one of the sickest, most disturbing films you will ever see.
	cakeandpolka.blogspot.com /2005/05/singapore-sling.html (347 words)

	WildAid (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In contrast to their previous hard-hitting campaigns, it is hoped that by using animated characters, these adverts will reach out to Singaporeans of all ages and soften the fearful reputation which sharks have around the world today.
		And Singapore in particular is one of the world's biggest consumers of shark fins.
		Singapore's shark fin trade figures from Indonesia is considered 'classified' information and not accessible to the public.
	www.wildaid.org /index.asp?CID=8&PID=66&SUBID=&TERID=80 (928 words)

	Criticine :: elevating discourse on southeast asian cinema
		Wayang kulit, the Malay shadow play, gave the earliest inhabitants of Southeast Asia their first experience of ‘cinema.’ But narrative cinema as it is today only began in Malaysia, with the production of Laila Majnun in 1933, directed by B S Rajhans and produced by Motilal Chemical, a Bombay-based company in Singapore.
		Singapore split from Malaysia in 1965 and two years later, the studio system of Shaws and Cathay (now called Cathay-Keris), collapsed in Singapore (Shaw Brothers, because of union problems).
		Film in Malaysia was once dominated by Malay cinema, but now the Fifth Voice has gained momentum and — like it or not — is in the process of creating a new Malaysian Cinema, both independently and through the mainstream.
	www.criticine.com /feature_article.php?id=17 (2707 words)

	Singapore
		Singapore consists of the four races Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian.
		The Singapore Zoo is one of the most beautiful in the world in a very natural setting almost like created by nature.
		Singapore has developed a cruise center which offers sailings from 2 days and more to a range of South East Asian destinations.
	www.tripworld.biz /singapore.htm (1418 words)

	Dato Loke Wan Tho - Magnate, Philanthropist, Photographer, Ornithologist
		Singapore's and, for that matter, South East Asia’s, tallest skyscraper of 17 storeys made its debut when Wan Tho opened the Cathay Cinema complex with much pomp and fanfare.
		The Cathay cinema was converted to a Red Cross casualty station in February 1942 and Wan Tho found himself an evacuee on a ship fleeing Singapore.
		When the British returned in 1945 to Singapore the first film that was brought in was shown at the same Cathay cinema.
	www.viweb.freehosting.net /LokeWT.htm (2492 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Singapore loosens film censorship
		Singapore is relaxing its strict rules on film censorship by bringing in new adult ratings.
		She added that Jewish and Catholic religious leaders in Singapore had been consulted.
		The change in the ratings system is being seen as a gradual step towards the easing of censorship laws in the country rather than "a radical liberalisation".
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/3567789.stm (300 words)

	Singapore Cinema: Director Eric Khoo speaks Up
		Singapore Cinema: Director Eric Khoo speaks Up Singapore Cinema: Director Eric Khoo speaks Up Interview by Jan Uhde and Yvonne Ng
		The interview is an extract from their book on film in Singapore which will be published in the Spring of 2000.
		My mother brought me to the cinema when I was about two years old; and I grew up on a diet of fantasy films.
	www.kinema.uwaterloo.ca /khoo992.htm (2339 words)

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		Singapore has an average cinema attendance of 17.5 million per year (1991-2001), about four times the size of its population.
		The precursor to this report is the Advisory Council of Culture and the Arts Report (1989), often regarded as a watershed document for the development of culture and the arts in the nation-state because it is the first to advocate, since independence, the building of associated infrastructure as both a state concern and affair.
		In Singapore, Teochew is not as widely spoken as Hokkein is, but like the latter, is a “disowned” language of the state.
	www.ejumpcut.org /archive/jc46.2003/12storeys/storeys8.html (3378 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Singapore, long a central shipping hub for the distribution of physical goods throughout Asia, now wants to be Asia's hub for the distribution of digital goods, as well.
		The IDA pitch is that, just as Singapore's port offers warehouses and railways for storage and distribution of goods to the rest of Asia, its robust infrastructure offers data centers and servers for storage and high-speed optical lines for content distribution.
		The IDA also claims that Singapore has one square mile of data center space, 21 Tbps of submarine cable capacity, and that it is Asia's first neutral Peering Point for GPRS Roaming.
	www.econtentmag.com /Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=7724 (913 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Singapore Tourism Board bid to draw more film-makers
		THE Singapore Tourism Board (STB) has tied up with Mr Rakesh Roshan's Filmkraft for the production of the movie Krrish, which is the sequel to Koi...
		Under the collaboration, Mr Roshan will film about 60 per cent of the movie in Singapore, with the STB facilitating the logistics support and ground requirements for the filming in Singapore.
		The funding is proposed to be disbursed in three years and will subsidise up to 50 per cent of the qualifying expenses incurred during the shoot in Singapore.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2005/07/07/stories/2005070701330400.htm (360 words)

	Cathay Building - SkyscraperPage.com
		The podium contained the first air-conditioned cinema in Singapore,which seats 1300.It was officially opened with much pomp and fanfare on 3rd October 1939 by Loke Wan Tho,costing at that time, £1 million.
		In 1992,the single-screen Cathay Cinema was converted to double-screen.In 1996,it was furthur converted to triple-screen.
		Then on 30 June 2000,the 61 year old cinema screened its last show.It was then abandoned.In December 2002,it was announced that it had to make way for a new shopping/office complex.On Janurary 2003,it was gazzetted as a National Monument,preserving the Art Deco podium façade.
	www.skyscraperpage.com /cities?buildingID=16003 (297 words)

	Singapore City - Singapore Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Singapore is a one-city state with the people of different cultural and ethnic backgrounds living in peace and prosperity together.
		Singapore Travel Network - Description and pictures of local attractions, restaurant listings, city map and calendar of events.
		The Monetary Authority of Singapore, the city state's central bank, said it would maintain its bias in favour of raising interest rates.
	www.dynamicar.com /singapore-city.html (400 words)

	InfoComm - Christie celebrates 75th anniversary
		Started 75 years ago, Christie is the first DLP Cinema™ licensee and it has played a leading role in the development of digital cinema projection.
		It presented Asia's first 2K commercial screening in Thailand with SF Cinemacity and Singapore's first commercial digital screening with Cathay Cineplexes as part of its industry-wide effort to help introduce digital cinema into Asia.
		As Singapore's first cinema operator to revolutionize D-Cinema, we are able to offer our moviegoers here the same-day blockbuster movie releases in digital format as in the U.S., and we have also been exploring new alternative content offerings.
	www.infocomm.org /index.cfm?objectID=3C40E6ED-6803-4C05-BFA720E248CE4B0A (578 words)

	Review of Singapore Cinemas
		It used to be my favorite cinema but nowadays there tend to be a lot of kids and teenagers which totally spoils the movie experience for me. They like to eat and talk loudly in the cinema.
		This cinema is kind of sub-par compared with the other GV cinemas because the seats are not the head-reaching type and the legroom is not as good.
		Prince 1 is arguably one of the largest cinema in Singapore together with Lido 1 at Shaw Center.
	sps.nus.edu.sg /~ngjiaton/revcinema.htm (889 words)

	Haro Singapore!: Public activity in public bus
		Singapore underground sex movement is alive and well.
		Sex is a fun act that people of any age and inclination can engage in anytime and anywhere.
		Public places in Singapore are loved by the exhibitionistic.
	harosingapore.blogspot.com /2005/11/public-activity-in-public-bus.html (580 words)

	SINGAPORE GAGA
		A friend said yesterday and said she saw her neighbour in Singapore GaGa, no, not as a subject but as a passerby in the MRT scene.
		The discussion centred not on the story itself but the choice of word to describe Singapore in the headlines which was "zu guo", or motherland, the English approximation.
		As I stepped into the cinema to introduce the film, instead of sea of faces, I found a dimly lit well spaced cinema with the audience all lying flat in their reclining seats.
	singaporegaga.blogspot.com (3397 words)

	KINDA HOT: A book about Saint Jack
		The daily newspaper TODAY has a big feature about why foreigners are so curious about Singapore movies, which has a few soundbites from me - you can read it here, or have the pdf here.
		On friday Singapore's main newspaper for executives, VPs, CEOs and all white collar workers, The Business Times, ran a profile of me and the book, which I was very happy with.
		In 1973 he came back to Singapore for a few days and promised he'd never return - but here he was larger than life and in very good spirits.
	www.kindahot.blogspot.com (1721 words)

	DAILY NEWS: Ray Officially at UA; Short Films in Singapore
		As nervous business interests flee from a post-English Hong Kong looking for a safe business harbor, Singaporeans are beginning to realize that they have the opportunity to develop their own artistic voice.
		In response to this growing interest in Singaporean cinema, the Singapore Film Commission was established in 1999 to "nurture, support and promote Singapore talent in filmmaking, the production of Singapore films and a film industry in Singapore."
		Singapore has discovered that short films are the perfect foundation for this new voice and the Singapore Film commission is handing out funding accordingly.
	www.indiewire.com /biz/biz_010803_briefs.html (698 words)

	Now Playing In Asia: Digital Cinema
		Singapore is in the vanguard of the film industry's shift from celluloid to pixels
		At a time when movie attendance in Singapore is falling -- down 7% last year -- the market can't handle even a small increase in ticket prices from the current $6 or so, says Suhaimi Rafdi, Cathay's president for business operations.
		Cinema owners are expecting about twice as many digital films this year, now that Hollywood has adopted a standard format.
	www.businessweek.com /magazine/content/06_23/b3987055.htm?chan=globalbiz_asia_technology (899 words)

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