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  Holidays in Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The major public holidays in Singapore reflect the cultural and religious diversity of the country, including the Chinese New Year, Buddhist Vesak Day, Muslim Eid ul-Fitr and Eid ul-Adha (known locally by its Malay names Hari Raya Puasa and Hari Raya Haji respectively), Hindu Diwali (known locally by its Tamil name Deepavali).
Mondays are public holidays for any public holiday that falls on a Sunday.
Mondays are school holidays for any school holiday that falls on a Sunday.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Holidays_in_Singapore   (235 words)

  
 Culture of Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As Singapore is a small and relatively modern amalgam of Chinese, Malay and Indian immigrants, the culture of Singapore expresses the diversity of the population as the various ethnic groups continue to celebrate their own cultures while they intermingle with one another.
Singapore is a multi-religious country, the roots of which can be traced to its strategic location; after its declaration as a port, a wide variety of nationalities and ethnicities from places as far as Arabia emigrated to Singapore.
Singapore is emerging as a cultural centre for arts and culture, including theatre and music.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Culture_of_Singapore   (2077 words)

  
 Holiday
A holiday is day set aside by a nation or culture (in some cases, multiple nations and cultures) typically for celebration but sometimes for some other kind of special culture-wide (or national) observation or activity.
A public holiday or legal holiday is a holiday endorsed by the state.
Public holidays can be either religious, in which case they reflect the dominant religion in a country, or secular, in which case they are usually political or historical in character.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/h/ho/holiday.html   (1134 words)

  
 Singapore: 2005 Calendar of Bank Holidays, Public Holidays, and National Holidays
This list of 2005 bank holidays, national holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Singapore, was generated by the Q++ Studio Diary Publishing System, using holidays recurrence rules that were last revised on July 25, 2005.
Some of the bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays for Singapore are based on calendars whose determination is inherently approximate, as described in the footnotes below, which we strongly urge you to read.
Examples of this are religious holidays such as Easter Sunday, or the actual date of a holiday, such as Christmas, for which an additional day in lieu is given when it occurs on a weekend.
www.qppstudio.net /bankholidays2005/singapore.htm   (931 words)

  
 Meridian Holidays - Destination: Singapore
However, all visitors are required to have a passport validity of at least 6 months, onward/return tickets, onward facilities (eg, visa, entry permit, etc) to their next destination and sufficient funds for their stay in Singapore.
Dining in Singapore is a safe gastronomic experience.
Singapore's tropical climate offers visitors unlimited opportunities to experience a leisure vacation and the outdoors year-round.
www.meridianholidays.com /Destination_sing.html   (344 words)

  
 Singapore Airlines Holidays Australia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Singapore Airlines Holidays cannot be held responsible for excess baggage charges or baggage unable to be carried due to restrictions.
Every person participating in a tour or holiday organised by the Company, shall be regarded in every aspect as carrying his own risk with respect to loss or injury to person or property (including baggage) during the tour or holiday.
Singapore Airlines Holidays knows that it is important for you to have the same confidence when you provide your personal information online as you do when you order over the phone or in person at a retail outlet.
siaholidays.com.au /public/terms.html   (3469 words)

  
 Singapore Tour Packages,Singapore Travel Packages,Singapore Budget Holiday,Holiday Package for Singapore,Budget ...
Singapore, the stunning centrepiece of southeast Asia, is a cultural pot pourri that leaves the unsuspecting visitor dazzled by the containment of so many influences upon one small island.
Singapore is a happy collision of opposites - grand and expensive at the famed Raffles Hotel, but low-key and cheap in the food markets of Bugis Junction and Clarke Quay.
At Underwater World Singapore, visitors are taken on a 'voyage to the bottom of the sea', which begins at the sandy beaches and shallow rock pools at the water's edge.
www.departtotravel.com /singapore_holiday_tour_packages.html   (978 words)

  
 Singapore Travel Guide - Singapore Holidays
Beguiling Singapore is a modern city-state embracing economic progress against the backdrop of age-old tradition.
Singapore is an island off the southern tip of Malaysia, linked to it by a causeway.
The core of downtown Singapore is formed by the Colonial District embellished by cathedrals and cricket lawns.
www.wordtravels.com /Travelguide/Countries/Singapore   (523 words)

  
 LOWEST RATES Singapore Hotels Holidays Travel | Singapore-Holidays.com
Singapore is a thriving dynamic centre for commerce and industry, sophisticated and ultra-modern, with many diverse cultural influences contained within one small island.
In Singapore, with all the lovely Singapore hotels and the busiest of city in the world of cultures you will want to stay a little longer.
Singapore is the place to be for a holiday.
www.singapore-holidays.com   (297 words)

  
 Holiday in Singapore with your family
Singapore is one place where you can be sure the whole family will have fun.
Singapore is sunny all year round, so anytime's a good time to bring your family on a trip here.
The food in Singapore is very varied, so beware of spicier varieties of Indian, Malay and Thai fare if your children aren't used to it.
www-singapore.com /familyholidays   (1066 words)

  
 The Luxury Holidays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Singapore has traded in its rough-and-ready opium dens and pearl luggers for towers of concrete and glass, and its steamy rickshaw image for hi-tech wizardry, but you can still recapture the colonial era with a gin sling under the languorous ceiling fans at Raffles Hotel.
At first glance, Singapore appears shockingly modern and anonymous, but this is an undeniably Asian city with Chinese, Malay and Indian traditions from feng shui to ancestor worship creating part of the everyday landscape.
Super-safe and mega-clean Singapore may be, but its sultry rhythms wash inexorably beneath the regimented beat of big-city life.
www.theluxuryholidays.com /Singapore/about_singapore.html   (215 words)

  
 Itavia Travel - Holidays to Singapore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Singapore is synonymous with a number of accolades - City of Diverse Cultures, The Fun City, The Garden City, City for the Arts and The Gateway City.
Singapore is also the venue for internationally acclaimed festivals such as WOMAD (World of Music, Arts and Dance), and the Singapore Arts and Jazz Festivals.
As Singapore is a specialist holiday destination please call our Specialist Holiday department on 0161 772 9999 or send us an email, and will we be happy to supply a personalised quote.
www.itavia.co.uk /singapore   (453 words)

  
 Singapore Public Holiday and Festivals
The rich mixture of cultures in Singapore means that there's always a cultural event to celebrate, all through the year.
Singapore is quite a culturally-open and sensitive society.
Singapore's cultural celebrations are open to everybody and anybody, with just a few things to bare in mind - remember to dress appropriately for the occasion and leave your shoes at the entrance of mosques and temples.
www-singapore.com /festivals   (245 words)

  
 Singapore Holidays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Holidays may occur a day later in countries outside the Gulf region.
• (i) Days in Lieu : These bank holidays, legal holidays and public holidays, in Singapore, have specific official rules that determine that they are moved, or that a days in lieu is given when they occur on a Saturday or on a Sunday, or in both cases.
Examples of this are religious holidays such as Holy Saturday, or the actual date of a holiday, such as Christmas, for which an additional day in lieu is given when it occurs on a weekend.
www.ambsingapore.um.dk /en/menu/AboutUs/SingaporeHolidays   (455 words)

  
 Singapore Holidays: Cheap Holidays in Singapore, South East Asia
Singapore, the diamond-shaped island off the southern tip of Malaysia, is an unlikely success story.
Singapore City is by far the largest and most significant island alongside 63 others that make up Singapore state.
Singapore is one of only two cities in the world to have a significant area of primary rainforest within its boundaries.
www.lastminute.com /site/find/World/South-East-Asia/Singapore/Singapore--Holiday.html   (998 words)

  
 Singapore Honeymoon Destination,Honeymoon Destination for Singapore,Honeymoon Destination Tour to Singapore
Singapore is a thriving city-state that has overcome its dearth of natural resources to become one of the juggernaut economies of Asia.
Singapore is also a multicultural city, and close to one-quarter of its population are expatriates or foreign workers from all over the world.
Known for its desire to become the technology hub of Asia, Singapore is the most wired country in the region.
www.honeymoonspecial.com /singapore-travel.html   (422 words)

  
 Singapore holidays. Vacations & holidays in Singapore. World’s best responsible & ecotourism holidays
Singapore is synonymous with shopping, and no trip to this island republic at tip of the Malaysian peninsula, would be complete without a visit to the vast luxury malls of Orchard Road.
At the core of this success story is an unwritten bargain between Singapore's paternalistic government and acquiescent population, which stipulates the loss of a certain amount of personal freedom, in return for levels of affluence and comfort that would have seemed unimaginable at independence in the 1960s.
Of more relevance to the millions of holiday makers Singapore receives each year is the fact that improvements in living conditions have been shadowed by a steady loss of the state's heritage, though thankfully historic buildings and streets are no longer being bulldozed to make way for shopping centres.
www.responsibletravel.com /TripSearch/Asia/Country100214.htm   (659 words)

  
 Singapore - travel guide, holidays in Singapore -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Singapore is a microcosm of Asia, populated by Chinese, Malays, Indians and a large group of workers and expatriates from all across the globe.
Granted self-rule in 1955, Singapore briefly joined Malaysia in 1963 when the British left, but was expelled because the Chinese-majority city was seen as a threat to Malay dominance, and the island became independent on 9 August 1965.
Singapore is one of South-East Asia's largest aviation hubs, so unless you're coming from Peninsular Malaysia or Batam/Bintan in Indonesia, the easiest way to enter Singapore is by air.
www.did-you-mean.com /travel/Singapore   (8343 words)

  
 Singapore Culture Guide - TravelPuppy.com
Singapore is a superb place to see and purchase art from all over Asia, as well as works by many local artists.
Singapore Art Museum, Bras Basah Road (tel: 6332 3222), Artfolio, Raffles Hotel (tel: 6334 4677), Art2 at The Substation, Armenian Street (tel: 6338 8713); and the galleries on the ground floor of the Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts, MITA Building, 140 Hill Street (tel: 6270 7988; fax: 6837 9480; email: mita_pa@mita.gov.sg).
Singapore’s calendar of annual events includes a real mix of modern and ancient, with old, revered ritual pitted up against the modern and experimental.
travelpuppy.com /singapore/culture.htm   (1929 words)

  
 Singapore HQ : Singapore
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Singapore HQ does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the content available on this Website.
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.
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 Singapore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Once a sleepy fishing village, Singapore is now considered by many to be the most modern city in all of Asia.
Since gaining full independence from Malaysia in 1965, the absorbing city-state of Singapore - which measures just 360 square miles and is linked by a half mile-long causeway to southern Malaysia - has been transformed from a quiet colonial town to a pristine, futuristic metropolis.
Description: Exquisitely refurbished, the Mandarin Singapore mixes Asian tradition and Western splendor and is one of Singapore's best-known landmarks.
www.cruisestore.com /1042444_12484.htm   (410 words)

  
 Singapore Public Holidays 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Hong Kong 2005 Holiday A well-known consecutive holiday in Japan is golden-week, roughly lasting a whole week.
Singapore National and Public Holidays in 2006 List of the public and national holidays in Singapore during 2006.
International holidays (secular) Many other days are marked to celebrate events or people, but are not strictly holidays as time off work is rarely given.
www.holiday-area.com /singapore-public-holidays-2005_1272.html   (836 words)

  
 Singapore Holiday, Holiday in Singapore, Holiday Singapore, Shopping in Singapore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Singapore is an eclectic city state mixing authentic south east Asian and western culture.
As one of the most accessible destinations in Asia, Singapore is an ideal base to explore the rest of this fascinating region and also a valued holiday destination in its own right.
Formerly a British colony home to pirates and bootleggers; Singapore is now one of the cleanest, most prosperous and urban cities in Asia.
www.iglutropical.com /aboutRegion.cfm?regionCode=SG   (262 words)

  
 Singapore 2004 - Holidays & Travel - Fiona's Travels and Adventures
In March and April John and I had a fabulous holiday travelling around Australia on the way there and back we stopped in Singapore for a few days.
Guarding the entrance to the Singapore River are the Merlions.
The half-fish, half-lion is the mythical symbol of Singapore.
fiona.ellis.free.fr /singapore2004.htm   (233 words)

  
 CTC Holidays in Singapore Launches Travel Loft
The Travel Loft, located on the second storey of CTC Holidays’ wholly owned building, has been set up to help customer experience a new level of comfort and convenience that is the first of its kind in Singapore.
Holiday makers can choose to research and plan for their trip while savouring cakes and coffee at the café, relax at the cosy lounge area or bask in the warm sunshine at the rooftop terrace.
CTC Holidays offers two briefing rooms within their premises, located within the Travel Loft, these briefing rooms are also used to conduct workshops and offer sneak previews of upcoming tour packages.
www.asiatraveltips.com /news05/121-Travel.shtml   (676 words)

  
 Singapore Stopover Holidays   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Singapore Airlines SSH programme offers variety, flexibility and great value for your money - which is what a holiday in Singapore is all about.
Cosmopolitan and colourful Singapore is an experience to remember, where vibrant, modern city life retains its rich Asian heritage and vestiges of the colonial past.
Singapore hotels are rated among the best in the world.
www.leestravel.com /sstop.htm   (1168 words)

  
 Singapore Tours,Singapore Tour Package,Singapore Holidays,Singapore Tours,Singapore Travel Agents,Holidays to Singapore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Uniquely Singapore - Unique is the word that best captures Singapore, a dynamic city rich in contrast and colour where you'll find a harmonious blend of culture, cuisine, arts and architecture.
A bridge between the East and the West for centuries, Singapore, located in the heart of fascinating Southeast Asia, continues to embrace tradition and modernity today.
Singapore is truly a city like no other, a world of possibilities.
www.indiadekho.com /tour-of-singapore/singapore-tour-package.htm   (458 words)

  
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The handsome colonial buildings of the centre are a delight to stroll around before taking a river trip on the 'bum boats', once used to take goods to the warehouses.
A short causeway links Singapore to the tiny pleasure island of Sentosa, home to white sand beaches, a fabulous water park and Asia's biggest aquarium.
Singapore Airlines' flights to Singapore depart daily from London Heathrow and Manchester (£25 supplement).
www.virginholidays.co.uk /brochures/worldwide/holidays/singapore   (221 words)

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