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  Singapore
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore (Malay: 'Republik Singapura'; Chinese: 新加坡共和国, Pinyin: Xīnjiāpō Gònghéguó; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் குடியரசு, Ciŋkappūr Kudiyarasu), is an island country and the smallest country in South-East Asia.
Singapore was expelled from the federation after heated ideological conflict developed between the state government formed by PAP and the federal government in Kuala Lumpur.
Singapore is a small and relatively modern amalgam of an indigenous Malay population with a third generation Chinese majority, as well as Indian and Arab immigrants with some intermarriages.
www.ipedia.net /information/Singapore   (6997 words)

  
  Singapore Resource Center - singapore airlines
Singapore is a republic with a Westminster system of a unicameral parliamentary government, with the bulk of the executive powers resting in the hands of a cabinet of ministers led by a prime minister.
Singapore was hit hard in 2001 by the global recession and the slump in the technology sector, which caused the GDP that year to contract at308 cities and technology from babylon to singapore by 2.2 percent.
Singapore is ranked second globally in terms of containerised traffic with 21.3 million twenty-foot equivalent units handled in 2004, and retains her position as the world's busiest hub for transhipment traffic.
www.taxgloss.com /Tax-Banks_P_-_S-/Singapore.html   (3867 words)

  
 Singapore - Introduction
Singapore's nineteenth-century immigrants valued the social as well as religious aspects of their congregations, and their descendants are more likely to concern themselves with social activities centered around their temples and mosques than with elaborate ritual or ceremony.
Singapore became the outlet for Malaya's tin and rubber, as well as the gateway through which were funneled supplies and workers for the peninsula's mines and plantations.
The response of foreign investors to Singapore's favorable investment climate and the rapid expansion of the world economy at that time were factors in the annual double-digit growth of the country's GDP during most of the period from 1965 through 1973.
countrystudies.us /singapore/2.htm   (3283 words)

  
 Singapore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Singapore is an island city-state and the smallest country in Southeast Asia, situated on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of the Indonesian Riau Islands.
Singapore is a small and relatively modern amalgam of an indigenous Malay population with a majority of third generation Chinese as well as Indian and Arab immigrants.
Singapore was ranked first globally in 2005 in terms of containerised traffic, with 23.2 million Twenty-foot equivalent units (TEUs) handled, and is also the world's busiest hub for transhipment traffic and the world's biggest ship refuelling hub with 25 million tonnes of bunker (marine fuel oil) sold in 2005.
www.99travel.com /singapore.shtml   (3128 words)

  
 Singapore Transports
Singapore's transportation network offers access to every corner of the island, either by bus, MRT (Singapore's underground rail network), taxis, rented cars and motorbikes or even by foot.
The Singapore River cruise, which casts off from North Boat Quay and Clarke Quay at every hour from 9 in the morning to 7 in the evenings, is one of the best at only S$7 a cruise.
Taking a cruise down the Singapore River is a great way for you to savour a bit of what central Singapore and its harbour must have been like in the old days.
www-singapore.com /transport   (1461 words)

  
 Top20Singapore.com - Your Top20 Guide to Singapore!
The Republic of Singapore (Simplified Chinese: 旰加坡共和国; Pinyin: XÄ«njiāpō Gònghéguó, Malay: Republik Singapura; Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் குடியரசு), is an island city-state in Southeast Asia, situated on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of the Indonesian Riau Islands.
There are two connections from Singapore to the Malaysian state of Johor — a man-made causeway (known as the Causeway) to the north, crossing the Tebrau Straits, and Tuas Second Link (called Linkedua Expressway in Malaysia), a bridge in the western part of Singapore that connects to Johor.
Singapore was hit hard in 2001 by the global recession and the slump in the technology sector, which caused the GDP that year to contract by 2.2 percent.
top20singapore.com   (4416 words)

  
 Comprehensive information and links about Singapore
Singapore (Malay: Republik Singapura; Chinese: 旰加坡共和国, Pinyin: XÄ«njiāpō Gònghéguó, Tamil: சிங்கப்பூர் குடியரசு, CiŋkappÅ«r Kudiyarasu), is an island city-state and the smallest country in Southeast Asia, situated on the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, south of the Malaysian state of Johor and north of the Indonesian Riau Islands.
Singapore enjoys one of the lowest crime rates in the world because of its strict laws, which has often been cited by foreign companies as one of the reasons for investing in Singapore.
Singapore was hit hard in 2001 by the global recession and the slump in the technology sector, which caused the GDP that year to contract by 2.2 %.
www.quicknation.com /Singapore.htm   (4751 words)

  
 Singapore
As Singapore is a small and relatively modern amalgam of an indigenous Malay population with the majority of third generation Chinese, Indian and Arab immigrants.
Although Singapore's laws are inherited from British and British Indian laws, the PAP has also consistently rejected wholesale Western democratic values, with former prime minister Lee Kuan Yew citing incompatibilities with "Asian values." Singapore's position is that there should not be a "one-size-fits-all" solution to a democracy.
Singapore enjoys one of the lowest crime rates in the world, as its laws are generally strict, which has often been cited by foreign companies as one of the reasons for investing in Singapore.
www.gipsymoth.org /IVC_Singapore.asp   (3556 words)

  
 An Analysis of Expressways Accidents in Singapore
As a digital map database of Singapore is not available the expressway profiles are obtained through GPS mapping.
There are eight expressways in Singapore covering a total distance of 148km.
The accident data in local grid coordinates are converted to latitudes and longitudes, and exported as X, Y coordinates and overlaid on the expressway layer.
www.gisdevelopment.net /application/urban/overview/urbano045pf.htm   (1883 words)

  
 Singapore Travel Guide - Singapore Hotels, Singapore Restaurants
Singapore is a tourist's haven, a dazzling blend of cultural influences.
Singapore is an ultra-modern configuration of new skyscrapers, thousands of government-built apartments, clean streets and a complex society with a passion for organization.
Singapore relies on tourism, trade and industry alone, so its position at the meeting point of these bodies of water is well suited to its status as a bustling world emporium.
www.1st-air.net /choice/cchoice-singapore.cfm   (1056 words)

  
 Singapore's government relaxes some restrictions
And Singapore's education system produces eighth-graders who scored first in math and second in science in a worldwide series of tests several months ago.
Singapore is a rare example of a nation going from Third World to First World in a single generation -- a nation that only three decades ago was a malaria-ridden, poverty-stricken island struggling out of a century of British colonial rule and an ill-fated two-year merger with neighboring Malaysia.
A 73-year-old illiterate woman in poor health was recently dragged out of a Singapore courtroom in tears, having been ordered to begin serving a six-month prison sentence for renting an apartment to illegal immigrants.
www.singapore-window.org /sw01/010414hc.htm   (1614 words)

  
 Singapore
Singapore is no longer regarded as a risk area for malaria.
Singapore has one of the most technologically advanced, user-friendly rail (metro) systems in the world.
Singapore also hosts the annual Singapore Food Festival and the World Gourmet Summit, which brings internationally acclaimed chefs to Singapore, and results in a host of exciting culinary offerings at hotels and restaurants island-wide.
www.britain.tv /travel_singapore.shtml   (1386 words)

  
 Expressways of Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The expressways of Singapore are special roads allowing motorists to travel quickly from one urban area to another.
The other expressways were completed in stages, with an extension of the Seletar Expressway being the most recently completed, in 1999.
The longest expressway, the Pan Island Expressway, is only 41 km long and therefore there are no rest areas.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Expressways_of_Singapore   (391 words)

  
 Singapore travel, Singapore information, Singapore hotels and accommodation - hotel reservations and resorts guide
Singapore is a country with many languages and people, but it's the Chinese who ultimately predominate.
Singapore has a number of frowned-upon activities, and the sometimes Draconian methods of dealing with minor offences has caused both mirth and dread among visitors.
The famous anti-long-hair campaign is a thing of the past, but it is only recently that long-haired men were turned away on arrival, or given a short-back-and-sides on the spot.
www.singapore-hotels-resorts.com /travel_info.htm   (364 words)

  
 Agenda 21 - Singapore
Singapore is also embarked on the construction of Light Rapid Transit (LRT) Systems in public housing estates to serve as feeders to the MRT network.
Singapore ONE’s application will revolutionise the business, leisure, education and day-to-day living in Singapore and is consistent with the plans to become a fully intelligent island.
The Port of Singapore Authority (PSA) was corporatised in October 1997 to free PSA from its statutory functions in order to concentrate on its commercial terminal operations.
www.un.org /esa/agenda21/natlinfo/countr/singapor/eco.htm   (4832 words)

  
 Singapore: History, Geography, Government, and Culture — FactMonster.com
The Republic of Singapore consists of the main island of Singapore, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean, and 58 nearby islands.
Singapore attained full internal self-government in 1959, and Lee Kwan Yew, an economic visionary with an authoritarian streak, took the helm as prime minister.
However, Singapore's strict rules of civil obedience also drew criticism from those who said the nation's prosperity was achieved at the expense of individual freedoms.
www.factmonster.com /ipka/A0107963.html   (647 words)

  
 Commanding Heights : Singapore Environmental | on PBS
1990-1995: Singapore is a party to the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, which drafts conventions on climate change, hazardous wastes, ocean pollution, and other green issues.
In 1993 Singapore prosecutes 36 industries for illegal discharges into the sewer system.
1996-2003: Singapore is the world's most densely populated area, yet it remains without a central environmental authority.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/commandingheights/lo/countries/sg/sg_env.html   (182 words)

  
 lux, isetta, liberia, singapore, republic of macedonia, sandy island, wallis, canouan island, antilles, maroomba   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
Singapore is a major Asian transportation hub, strategically lying on major sea and air trade routes.
Singapore is a major aviation hub and an important stopover point for the ' Kangaroo route' between Australasia and Europe.
The backbone of domestic transport infrastructure is the road transport in Singapore which includes a expressways of Singapore that form the arteries between distinct towns and regional centre (Singapore) as laid out in urban planning in Singapore.
iseeit.info /LUX   (434 words)

  
 Singapore - Nature
Singapore is awash with lush gardens and parklands as tropical greenery carpets the landscape.
Singapore also has many nature parks and reservoirs that dot the entire island.
Apart from Rio de Janeiro, Singapore is the only city in the world to have a significant area of primary rainforest within its boundaries.
www.marimari.com /content/singapore/popular_places/nature/nature.html   (277 words)

  
 Singapore travel internal - Singapore TravelPuppy
The train system is operated by Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (tel: 6336 8900; fax: 6334 8051).
The bus system is operated by the Singapore Bus Service (SBS; tel: 1800 287 2727 or 6284 8866; fax: 6282 5204; e-mail: sbscrc@sbs.com.sg) and Trans Island Bus Service (TIBS; tel: 6482 3888; fax: 6482 3842; e-mail: webmaster@tibs.com.sg).
Cycling in Singapore tends to be restricted to public parks, with East Coast Park a popular venue for cyclists and rollerbladers.
travelpuppy.com /singapore/travelinternal.htm   (1046 words)

  
 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on singapore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
He is recognised as the founder of modern Singapore.]] In 1819, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, a British East India Company official, made a treaty with the Sultan of Johore and established Singapore as a trading post and settlement, and saw instant growth and immigration from various ethnic groups.
There are two connections from Singapore to the Malaysian state of Johor andmdash; a man-made causeway (known as the Causeway) to the north, crossing the Tebrau Straits, and Tuas Second Link (called Linkedua Expressway in Malaysia), a bridge in the western part of Singapore that connects to Johor.
As a result, Singapore's land area grew from 581.5 kmandsup2; in the 1960s to 697.2 kmandsup2; today, and may grow by another 100 kmandsup2; by 2030.
www.blinkbits.com /blinks/singapore   (5136 words)

  
 Singapore Transport
Singapore has fifteenth largest merchant fleet in world.
Roads: 2,810 kilometers of roads in 1989, mostly paved; five expressways, totalling 95 kilometers, with total 141 kilometers by 1991.
Airports: Two major airports, Singapore Changi Airport for international flights and Seletar for charter and training flights, and three smaller fields.
www.singapore-yellow-pages.com /singapore-transport.php   (198 words)

  
 Singapore Internal Travel - Getting Around Singapore - TravelPuppy.com
The train is operated by Singapore Mass Rapid Transit (telephone: 6336 8900; fax: 6334 8051).
The bus system is run by the Singapore Bus Service (telephone: 1 800 287 2727 or 6284 8866; fax: 6282 5204; e mail: sbscrc@sbs.com.sg) and Trans Island Bus Service (telephone: 6482 3888; fax: 6482 3842; email: webmaster@tibs.com.sg).
Cycling in Singapore usually tends to be restricted to public parks, with East Coast Park a popular venue for cyclists and rollerbladers.
travelpuppy.com /singapore/getting-around.htm   (1007 words)

  
 Singapore NUS
Singapore it is also known to offer the best quality of life in the Asian region.
History The name Singapore is derived from the word “Singapura” or “Lion City” as legend has it that a Sumatran prince sighted a beast which looked like a lion when he first set foot on the island in the 14th century.
Climate Singapore is an equatorial country with relatively uniform temperature, high humidity all year round and abundant rainfall particularly during the Northeast Monsoon from November to January.
www.ivey.uwo.ca /exchangebook/Partner_Schools/Singapore.html   (2085 words)

  
 For Visitors: International and Local Visitors to NUS
Located about 12 km from the city centre, the University's campus at Kent Ridge spans approximately 150 hectares in one of the most scenic areas in Singapore.
The campus is well served by communication links, being 30 minutes by car from the airport, close to one of Singapore's main expressways, served by several bus routes and familiar to taxi drivers.
Singapore is a vibrant cosmopolitan city with a population of 3.5 million.
www.nus.edu.sg /corporate/visitors/index.html   (114 words)

  
 Interport Executive Movers Singapore
The speed limit on the expressways in Singapore is 90km/h.
Singapore is known to be one of the safest cities in the world
Singapore is rated as the country with the least restrictive immigration laws
www.interportexecutive.com /your-quick-connection-to-singapore.html   (917 words)

  
 Singapore Land
Beginning in the early 1970s, Singapore engaged in a systematic program of road building that led to the development of a network that was considered to be one of the best among developing countries.
In 1989 five expressways--the thirty-five-kilometer Pan Island Expressway (PIE), the nineteen-kilometer East Coast Parkway, the eleven-kilometer Bukit Timah Expressway, the fourteen-kilometer Ayer Rajah Expressway, and the sixteen-kilometer Central Expressway--were complete and work was underway on four more.
By late 1988, Singapore's 10,500 taxis were mostly air-conditioned and equipped with electronic taximeters.
www.singapore-yellow-pages.com /singapore-land.php   (621 words)

  
 Aug 96 Engineering Research News
Data on every incident reported for all the expressways in Singapore, for the period between April 1991 and February 1994, has been provided by the Road Traffic Research Department of the Traffic Police of Singapore.
A statistical analysis was also carried out to determine the significance of the various time components of the sequence of activities resulting in incidents leading to a congestion.
The average tailback for a particular expressway was 3 km, with a standard deviation of 1.98 km.
www.eng.nus.edu.sg /EResnews/9608/aug96p3.html   (997 words)

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