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	Parliamentary elections in Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Parliamentary elections in Singapore began with the independence of Singapore from the Federation of Malaysia on 9 August 1965, thus renaming the Singapore State Government's Legislative Assembly as the Parliament of Singapore.
		Henceforth, elections held to form the parliament are known as the Parliamentary elections.
		The 3 main pieces of legislation governing the conduct of Parliamentary Elections are: (a) The Constitution of the Republic of Singapore (The Legislature - Part VI); (b) The Parliamentary Elections Act (Chapter 218); and (c) The Political Donations Regulations (Chapter 236, Rg 2).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Parliamentary_elections_in_Singapore (995 words)

	Singapore. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		Singapore island is low-lying and is composed of a granitic core (rising to 580 ft/177 m at Bukit Timah, the country’s highest point) surrounded by sedimentary lowlands.
		Singapore has remained in the Commonwealth of Nations, and it joined the United Nations in 1965; it was one of the founding members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in 1967.
		Singapore experienced steady economic growth and diversification during his tenure, but the country was criticized internationally during the 1980s and 1990s for severe treatment of political dissidents and a harsh system of justice.
	www.bartleby.com /65/si/Singapor.html (1730 words)

	Singapore - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The island of Singapore was a swampy jungle when, in 1819, Stamford Raffles of the British East India Company concluded a treaty with the nominal rulers of Singapore, Sultan Hussein and the Temenggong Abdul Rahman of Johore, allowing the company to establish a trading base near the River Rochor.
		It was from their political and commercial base in Singapore that the British intervened in the Malay Straits during the 1870s (see Malayan history to 1963).
		However, the existence of a large Chinese majority in Singapore, many of whom were hostile to central control by a predominantly Malay government, exacerbated racial and political tensions, and these led to Singapore's secession from Malaysia on 9 August 1965.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Singapore (1581 words)

	Elections in Singapore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Constitution of Singapore requires that each Parliament must be dissolved no later than five years after its beginning or first sitting and that parliamentary elections must be held no later than three months from the dissolution of the previous Parliament.
		Singapore has a dominant party political system with the People's Action Party in power since gaining full internal self-rule in 1959 from the British.
		The Singapore presidential election of 2005 was to be held on 27 August 2005 to elect the President of Singapore.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Elections_in_Singapore (312 words)

	Singapore limits election politics on Internet
		A bill to amend the Parliamentary Elections Act ahead of the next election was passed but only after a fairly lively debate with some politicians arguing it risked curbing freedom of speech and hurting Singapore's efforts to be a regional media hub.
		Singapore must hold a general election by August 2002 and the ruling People's Action Party (PAP) is expected to call for one later this year or early next year.
		On barring election surveys and exit polls, the minister said these gave the illusion of reflecting public opinion but were often based on small sample sizes, bad question design and improper sampling, which led to inaccurate and slanted results.
	www.singapore-window.org /sw01/010813re.htm (913 words)

	AllRefer.com - Singapore - Introduction \| Singaporean Information Resource
		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.
	reference.allrefer.com /country-guide-study/singapore/singapore11.html (3409 words)

	About Singapore
		Singapore Island, the one major island, is separated from Malaysia on the north by the narrow Johor Strait.
		The city of Singapore is at the southeastern end of the island; it is one of the most important port cities and commercial centers of Southeast Asia.
		In 1965 Singapore was separated from Malaysia and became a sovereign state, remaining in the Commonwealth and becoming a member of the United Nations.
	quis.qub.ac.uk /sss/singenc.html (1174 words)

	Singapore (09/05)
		Although Singapore's history dates from the 11th century, the island was little known to the West until the 19th century, when in 1819, Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles arrived as an agent of the British East India Company.
		In the general elections of 1968, 1972, 1976, and 1980, the PAP won all of the seats in an expanding Parliament.
		Singapore's efforts to maintain economic growth and political stability and its support for regional cooperation harmonize with U.S. policy in the region and form a solid basis for amicable relations between the two countries.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2798.htm (3464 words)

	Freedom in the World 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Singapore's economy shrank by 4.3 percent year-on-year in the second quarter before growing slightly in the second half of 2003.
		Singapore's 1959 constitution created a parliamentary system where the prime minister and other lawmakers are directly elected for five-year terms.
		Singapore's press is somewhat freer than in past years, although most major media outlets are linked to the government and journalists face subtle pressure from the ruling party.
	freedomhouse.org /research/freeworld/2004/countryratings/singapore.htm (2279 words)

	Republic of Singapore
		Singapore was captured and occupied by the Japanese in 1942 during World War II.
		Singapore was returned to the British when Japan lost the war in 1945.
		The union was uneasy, however, and in 1965 Singapore separated from Malaysia and became a sovereign state within the Commonwealth.
	www.webear.com /singapengl.html (772 words)

	Singapore
		Singapore is a parliamentary republic in which politics was dominated overwhelmingly by the People's Action Party (PAP), which has been in power since the country gained autonomy from the United Kingdom in 1959.
		Singapore was invited by the Community of Democracies' (CD) Convening Group to attend the November 2002 second CD Ministerial Meeting in Seoul, Republic of Korea, as an observer.
		In June Chee Soon Juan, Secretary-General of the opposition Singapore Democratic Party, after being denied a permit, was charged under PEMA for holding an unauthorized rally in May outside the Istana, the government compound housing the offices of the President and the Prime Minister.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/18263.htm (12752 words)

	Singapore Elections
		Singapore Elections web site houses the most comprehensive data archive of Singapore election results throughout the country's entire history that is unmatched by any other Singapore web site of a similar topic.
		A candidate's election deposit will be forfeited if he or she garners less than one-eighth or 12.5% of the votes cast in the ward contested.
		In 1959, Singapore was granted full self-governance by the British authorities with all seats open for elections and compulsory voting, but LF was voted out of power and a PAP government took over.
	www.singapore-elections.com (731 words)

	Singabloodypore
		Singapore's Manpower Minister Ng Eng Hen told BBC Radio that there were about 18 cases of maids falling to their deaths this year.
		During the last election in 2001, the weak and fragmented opposition parties -- which were hoping to build on their four seats won in the 1997 poll -- won only two of the 84 seats in parliament; one for the Worker's Party and one for the Singapore Democratic Alliance.
		Singapore is easily one of the better off countries in the world, something that the regime always tries to remind the supposed ingrates among us.
	singabloodypore.blogspot.com (9072 words)

	Singapore
		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.infoplease.com /ipa/A0107963.html (507 words)

	Singapore
		Singapore is also a city-state that grew up as a British colony and an entrepôt for Malaysia.
		Singapore: "Organs of State." A list and description of the structures of the government of Singapore: Prime Minister, President, legislature, bureaucracy.
		Singapore: "Government Ministries." A list and description of the bureaucracies of the government of Singapore.
	www.iup.edu /politicalscience/courses/ps383/sg.htm (583 words)

	Amnesty International Report 2002 - Asia and the Pacific - SINGAPORE
		The Parliamentary Elections Act was amended, curbing the use of the Internet for political campaigning and banning the publication of opinion polls during elections.
		Between 1991 and 2000, 340 people were hanged, giving Singapore probably one of the highest execution rates in the world, relative to its population.
		Singapore: International trial observer to attend Court of Appeal as former opposition leader J.B. Jeyaretnam faces possible expulsion from parliament (AI Index: ASA 36/005/2001)
	web.amnesty.org /web/ar2002.nsf/asa/singapore!Open (1038 words)

	Singabloodypore: December 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Singapore was upgraded from a Non-invitee at the Warsaw Ministerial Meeting to an Observer at the Seoul Ministerial Meeting.
		Parliamentary elections were held 4 November 2001, in which the governing People’s Action Party (PAP) secured an overwhelming majority with 90% of the vote.(194) There is no independent elections commission and campaigning is restricted to nine days.
		Singapore - Married couples in Singapore are too tired to have sex, according to a survey published on Sunday in the city-state, which is facing a chronic shortage of babies.
	singabloodypore.blogspot.com /2004_12_01_singabloodypore_archive.html (11939 words)

	Info and facts on 'Elections by country' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Elections by country gives information on election (A vote to select the winner of a position or political office) s.
		Previous election results (when available) can be found at the main article on elections in that entity.
		Singapore (A country in southeastern Asia on the island of Singapore; achieved independence from Malaysia in 1965)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/el/elections_by_country.htm (4950 words)

	Singapore Ink. » Elections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		From reading of how those people who were meant to be scrutinised praise their scrutinisers to the point of shamelessness at times, I might think that it is the constitutionally-defined scrutinised who are the actual-scrutinisers, and the constitutionally-defined scrutinisers the actual one under some kind of six-year probation.
		Singapore Presidential Election to be held on August 27 (CNA 3 Aug): And we’ll know by the 17th whether there are any more eligible candidates besides the incumbent president.
		SINGAPORE : Amendments to the Parliamentary Elections Bill and Presidential Elections Bill have been tabled for Parliament sitting on Monday.
	djourne.net /singaporeink/index.php/archives/category/.../elections (4216 words)

	The Republic - History - Singapore - Asia
		In 1993 Singapore held its first direct presidential elections, and Ong Teng Cheong of PAP received nearly 60 percent of the votes cast.
		In parliamentary elections held in 1997, PAP raised its number of seats to 81 out of 83.
		He was succeeded in 1999 by former diplomat S. Nathan, who became president without an election after Singapore’s Presidential Elections Committee declared his two rivals ineligible.
	www.countriesquest.com /asia/singapore/history/the_republic.htm (329 words)

	Home Daybook Observations World Developments (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Trinidad and Tobago: Parliamentary and presidential elections in December 2006.
		Nepal: Parliamentary elections to be held by April 2007 (Announced by the King on 12 October 2005).
		Turkmenistan: presidential election in 2009 (First announced on 8 January 2003 and repeated by the president on 8 April 2005, again announced by the president on 24 October 2005 but rejected by People's Council on same day by a vote of 2,500 to one).
	www.theinternationalobserver.com /WFUTURE.HTM (3078 words)

	Asia-Links (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Elections Department is responsible for the conduct of elections in Singapore.
		The Ministry of Trade and Industry (MTI) is charged with the mission to promote high and stable levels of economic growth and employment, so that all Singaporeans have ample opportunity to improve their standards of living.
		The Cabinet is led by the Prime Minister, who is appointed by the President, as the Member of Parliament who commands the confidence of the majority of the Members of Parliament.
	www.asia-links.com /sina/directory/directory.asp?folderid=340 (351 words)

	Women in Parliaments: World Classification
		Comparative data on the world and regional averages as well as data concerning the two regional parliamentary assemblies elected by direct suffrage can be found on separate pages.
		2 - Timor-Leste: The purpose of elections held on 30 August 2001 was to elect members of the Constituent Assembly of Timor-Leste.
		These reserved seats were filled in September and October 2005, being allocated to political parties in proportion to their share of the national vote received in the 2001 election.
	www.ipu.org /wmn-e/classif.htm (288 words)

	Iran, Singapore study expansion of parliamentary ties - Irna
		Members of Iran-Singapore parliamentary delegation conferred on Tuesday with Singapore's Parliament Speaker Abdullah Tarmugi on expansion of parliamentary cooperation between the two countries.
		Highlighting the importance of expanding parliamentary ties between the two countries, he called for further exchange of visits and views between the parliamentary friendship groups of the two countries.
		Singapore's parliament speaker, for his part, expressed satisfaction over the visit of the Iranian parliamentary friendship group and expressed the hope that such exchange of visits and views between the two sides would further broaden mutual understanding between the two nations.
	www.irna.ir /en/news/view/line-22/0511290531184039.htm (346 words)

	Singapore: 08/01/2005 - 08/31/2005
		The Parliamentary Human Rights Caucus, chaired by a minister in the Prime Minister's department and opposition leader Lim Kit Siang (a former ISA detainee) has called for the release or trial of ISA detainees and reform of the detention camps, and intended taking the matter further with the authorities.
		But he warned that elections can also be a facade to justify and legitimise autocratic rule and that the rule of law is necessary for democracy as an instrument for freedom and justice, not as a charade to oppress innocents.
		In a parliamentary debate on the handling of addicts, ruling party UMNO MP Baharum Mohamed said: "We notice that the mandatory death sentence has not been effective in controlling drug trafficking." However, Internal Security Ministry parliamentary secretary Abu Seman Yusop countered that the death penalty was a deterrent and would therefore not be lifted.
	sing-a-pore.blogspot.com /2005_08_01_sing-a-pore_archive.html (11859 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Singapore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Singapore was founded as a British trading colony in 1819.
		Singapore, a highly developed and successful free market economy, enjoys a remarkably open and corruption-free environment, stable prices, and a per capita GDP equal to that of the Big 4 West European countries.
		It was hard hit in 2001-03 by the global recession, by the slump in the technology sector, and by an outbreak of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome in 2003, which curbed tourism and consumer spending.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/sn.html (1144 words)

	The Israeli Government's Official Website, by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
		The Speaker of the Israeli Parliament (known as the Knesset), Mr Reuven Rivlin was in Singapore from 25 to 27 November for a four-day long official visit.
		Mr Rivlin came to Singapore at the invitation of Singapore's Speaker of Parliament, Mr Abdullah Tarmugi, who visited Israel, the Palestinian territories and Kuwait in early November.
		He also met with members of the Government Parliamentary Committee for Defence and Foreign Affairs, which had Mr R.Ravindran, who is also a Member of Parliament for Marine Parade GRC, as the chairman.
	singapore.mfa.gov.il (675 words)

	Singapore Ink. » 2005 » April » 18 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Khaw say.) It seems that VRE is not a new disease to Singapore & in fact can be carried by people without any obvious symptoms; the number of cases in the recent outbreak (SGH & NUH, though the NUH cases may be unconnected) stands at 93, & the ministry is still investigating the cause.
		We understand that in our multi-ethnic and multi-religious society, it is not tenable for government policies to be dictated by the views of any one group or groups.
		The Integrated Resort is one of the many strategies that Singapore is pursuing to boost its tourism appeal and generate economic growth.
	www.djourne.net /singaporeink/index.php/archives/2005/04/18 (5396 words)

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