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United Malays National Organisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia After the separation and independence of Singapore in 1965, the Singapore branch of UMNO was renamed the Singapore Malay National Organisation (Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Singapura). The United Malays National Organisation, or UMNO, (Malay: Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Bersatu), is the largest political party in Malaysia and a founding member of the Barisan Nasional coalition, which has ruled the country uninterruptedly since its independence. A series of Malay congresses were held, culminating in the formation of UMNO on May 11, 1946 at the Third Malay Congress in Johor Bahru, with Datuk Onn Jaafar at its head. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/UMNO   (851 words)

Reggio Inspired : Singapore - Quick Facts A cluster of architectural legacies such as the Parliament House, Victoria Theatre, Singapore Cricket Club, Supreme Court and City Hall surrounds an open expanse of green, named the Padang ("playing field" in Malay). The growth of nationalism led to self-government in 1959 and on 9 August 1965, Singapore became an independent republic. Singapore is the busiest port in the world with over 600 shipping lines sending super tankers, container ships and passenger liners to share the busy waters with coastal fishing vessels and wooden lighters. www.reggioinspired.com /singaporefacts.htm   (1399 words)

Press_Release_PKMS_Objectives To safeguard and work for the implementation of the special rights of the Malays in Singapore as enunciated in the constitution of the republic of Singapore. Thirdly PKMS is asking the government to give an assurance to the Malay Muslim community that all madrasahs is not going to be closed and should be relevent even though the result of the madrasah student need to be seen in 6 years time. To foster and promote the goodwill and harmony among the citizens of various races in Singapore and to promote the growth of a strong and united nation. www.geocities.com /pkms218/Press_Release_PKMS_Objectives.html   (459 words)

Press_Release_Allowing_Muslim_Children_to_wear_tudung Singapore Malay National Organisation (SMNO) is concern with the current development where issues related to the Singapore Malay Muslim Community to be the focus and talking point even though it is notifiable that their efforts have been made to improve the confident level for national integration. With this, SMNO insist that the Singapore Government has to take charge and be responsible to the well being of the Malay students in their education that is in line with the Constitution of Singapore. SMNO support any efforts and dedication from various establishments in uplifting the education performance of the Singapore Malay students. www.geocities.com /pkms218/Press_Release_SMNO_Support_Any_Efforts_From_Various_Establishments.html   (451 words)

Library of Congress / Federal Research Division / Country Studies / Area Handbook Series/ Singapore / Glossary Singapore "graduated" from the United States GSP program as of January 1, 1989, as it was no longer considered a developing country. Malay term for the descendants of marriages between Indian Muslim men and Malay women. A category of cconomies of nations or other political entities that experienced rapid industrial expansion and concomitant growth in their per capita GNP in the 1981s. lcweb2.loc.gov /frd/cs/singapore/sg_glos.html   (1171 words)

Guide to Singapore's opposition parties The four-party alliance groups Chiam's Singapore People's Party with the National Solidarity Party, Singapore Justice Party and the Malay-based Pertubohan Kebangsaan Melayu Singapura (Singapore Malay National Organisation). OLLOWING is background on key Singapore opposition parties as the recession-hit city state gears up for an early general election on November 3. Established in 1957, Singapore's oldest surviving opposition party is best known for its former chief, J.B. Jeyaretnam, who broke the PAP's 13-year parliamentary monopoly in 1981. www.singapore-window.org /sw01/011026re.htm   (482 words)

National Information Infrastructure and the realization of Singapore IT2000 initiative Singapore is one nation which has decided to take on the responsibility to progress towards world unity in its bid to provide international links on the Internet. (National Computer Board, 1992) one of the key roles played by the Singapore government was to invest heavily in RandD to project leadership positions in what is regarded as the 'locomotive' industry of the next millennium. SM Lee reminded Singaporeans that, if Singapore is to succeed in transforming the nation and economy into an information age country, then it needs its people to be more open minded and embracing of new ideas and new methods of achieving their goals (Straits Times, Febraury 2000). informationr.net /ir/6-2/paper96.html   (9604 words)

Asean Focus Group - Asian Analysis The members of SDA are: Singapore People's Party (SPP), Singapore Justice Party (SJP) and the Singapore Malay National Organisation (PKMS). The Australian National University (www.anu.edu.au/asianstudies/) is one of Australia's leading research and teaching universities with globally recognised Asian expertise and experience. Singapore's political system, as we all know, is unique in many ways. www.aseanfocus.com /asiananalysis/article.cfm?articleID=456   (900 words)

Getforme Singapore COMMUNITY NEWS & HAPPENINGS: OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2002 National University of Singapore (NUS) professor Victor GOH said that the study found that stress was the single most damaging factor. Singapore Democratic Party (SDP) leaders CHEE Soon Juan and Gandhi Ambalam yesterday chose to go to jail rather than pay their fines after they were found guilty of breaking the law at the party's illegal Labour Day rally at the Istana. Singapore currently uses 1.4 billion litres of water a day and this amount is expected to increase by a third in 10 years. www.getforme.com /community_currentissues_news_2002_4.htm   (10989 words)

HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT FOR CONTINUED ECONOMIC GROWTH THE SINGAPORE EXPERIENCE In 1980 the National University of Singapore was formed with the merger of the University of Singapore and the Nanyang University. Following the return of British rule, Singapore became a separate Crown Colony in April 1946 while Penang and Malacca became a part of the Malayan Union. Singapore was prepared to develop new initiatives in industrial training outside the formal education and training system to provide the skilled manpower for its industrialisation. www.ilo.org /public/english/dialogue/actemp/papers/1998/tanhrd1.htm   (11240 words)

Malaysia Country Guide - History and Government - World Travel Guide Provided By Columbus Travel Publishing In 1963, the Federation of Malaya merged with Singapore and the former British colonies of Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo) to form Malaysia. Singapore seceded to become an independent state in its own right in 1965, leaving Malaysia in its present form. The Federated Malay States were created as an entity in 1895, and remained under British colonial control until the Japanese invasion of 1942. www.columbusguides.com /data/mys/mys580.asp   (1190 words)

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Singapore Country Paper Singapore is a strong supporter of international law, particularly the sanctity of national sovereignty, and accordingly, has played an active role in many international fora, including the United Nations (Singapore was a non-permanent Security Council member from 2001-2002), the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Commonwealth. Malay is the national language and English the administrative language. Singapore is one of relatively few economies where the value of external trade is substantially higher than its GDP, underscoring the role of trade as the lifeblood of the country. www.mfat.govt.nz /foreign/regions/sea/countrypapers/singapore.html   (2956 words)

Commonwealth Yearbook Home The opposition parties are the Singapore Democratic Party (SDP), the Workers' Party (WP), the National Solidarity Party (NS), the Singapore Justice Party (SJP), the Singapore Malay National Organisation (SMNO) and the Singapore People's Party (SPP). In an early general election in November 2001, the electorate gave the PAP a decisive endorsement, when it took 82 of the 84 elected seats with 75% of the votes, 9% more than in 1997. Ong Teng Cheong won the first presidential election, held in 1993, and S R Nathan was the only candidate in the second presidential poll in August 1999. www.thecommonwealth.org /Templates/YearbookInternal.asp?NodeID=139377   (277 words)

Vanguard Online Edition : OPINION:- Like Mahathir, like Aminu? Dr Mahathir was a leading member of the governing Malaysian political party, United Malay National Organisation, but in 1970 he was expelled for publishing the book, The Malay Dilemma which was critical of the party's leadership. While Mahathir studied at the National University of Malaysia, then located in Singapore, Aminu was at the University of Ibadan. Aminu from the National Assembly draws a parallel with the travails of Dr. Mahathir of Malaysia. www.vanguardngr.com /articles/2002/columns/c322122004.html   (590 words)

Singapore Malay National Organisation The Singapore Malay National Organisation (PKMS, short for Pertubuhan Kebangsaan Melayu Singapura in Malay) is a political party in Singapore. The party was originally a branch of the United Malays National Organisation, but split when Singapore left Malaysia in 1965. PKMS is a member of the Singapore Democratic Alliance. sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/singapore_malay_national_organisation   (131 words)

Singapore Ink. I was disappointed by the omission of two (to me) important facts: the imagery for Singapore was only recently made available, as Tomorrow.sg reported when it linked to the blogger who first noticed; and the larger point that spy satellites and some of their capabilities are already out of the hands of governments. Singapore has one of the cleanest and most efficient governments in the world. SINGAPORE — Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Thursday criticized the corruption and pork barrel politics that have bedeviled Japan’s political system. www.djourne.net /singaporeink   (9861 words)

Asean News Network: History of Malaysia Conversion of the Malays to Islam, beginning in the early 14th century, accelerated with the rise of the Sultanate of Malacca in the 15th century. Because of opposition from the Malays the Union was a political failure, and was replaced just two years later by a looser Federation of Malaya in 1948. The early Buddhist Malay kingdom of Srivijaya, based at what is now Palembang, Sumatra, dominated much of the Malay Peninsula from the 9th to the 13th centuries AD. www.aseannewsnetwork.com /2005/02/history-of-malaysia.html   (1563 words)

Malaysia page The ruling party is the United Malay National Organisation. When the federation was set up Singapore was a member, but it left after distrust by the Malays of its Chinese majority population. This reflects the fact that the indigenous Malays are only just a majority in Malaysia as a whole and would have become a minority if Singapore's Chinese were included. www.angelfire.com /mac/egmatthews/worldinfo/asia/malaysia.html   (828 words)

Khaleej Times - Online In his Lunar New Year message on Monday, Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong said the detention of the 12 Singaporeans and one Malaysian in December for plotting to bomb U.S. targets in the city state must not be allowed to unravel ethnic harmony. SINGAPORE - Singapore, stressing social cohesion after the recent detention of 13 terror suspects, stuck to its hard line against headscarf-wearing Muslim schoolgirls on Monday by moving closer to suspending a third child from class. Singapore schools will be closed for the two-day Lunar New Year holidays. www.khaleejtimes.co.ae /ktarchive/110202/theworld.htm   (5951 words)

Singapore opposition alliance gets nod - source The alliance groups the Singapore People's Party, Singapore Justice Party, Singapore National Front, National Solidarity Party and Pertubohan Kebangsaan Melayu Singapura (Singapore Malay National Organisation). Member of Parliament and secretary general of the Singapore People's Party Chiam See Tong will serve as the interim chairman until the new alliance's office bearers are voted in. The Singapore Democratic Alliance submitted its application to set up a party to the Registry of Societies in March. www.singapore-window.org /sw01/010628re.htm   (311 words)

Radio Australia - Asia Pacific - Programs - SINGAPORE: Government maintains hardline against Muslim headscarves DE MASI: But the secretary-general of the opposition Singapore Malay National Organisation, Mohammad Rahizan Bin Yaacob, says the move to restrict the wearing of the headscarf is unconstitutional. So as part of the Malay political leadership we also with ourselves have a duty to explain to the Muslim community what are the concerns of the government, and at the end of the day work towards the process where we can better understand each other. DE MASI: For devout Malay Muslims, the headscarf, or tudung, is obligatory once girls reach puberty, but some parents have their daughters wear one earlier. www.abc.net.au /ra/asiapac/programs/s481832.htm   (826 words)

UCLA Asia Institute: The Man Who Made Malaysia Mahathir Muhammed is stepping down after serving more than 22 years as the leader of Malaysia and its ruling United Malay National Organisation (UMNO). Despite wearing his Malay nationalism on his sleeve, Mahathir ultimately persuaded most non-Malays that he was not simply a communal leader but someone who cared for all Malaysia's communities. This competitive approach towards Singapore is in line with the concerns he expressed in his influential book, The Malay Dilemma. www.isop.ucla.edu /asia/article.asp?parentid=5799   (923 words)

Asiabooks Catalogue - Indonesia In turn, Singapore was a base for the Indonesian nationalists, the British, the Dutch and Chinese traders, with each group exploiting prevailing circumstances for their own interests. (Singapore, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2003, 270 pp., ISBN 981 230 202 6) Indonesia is experiencing an historic and dramatic shift in political and economic power from the centre to the local level. The Kong Koan of colonial Batavia was a semi-autonomous organisation, in which the local elite of Jakarta's Chinese community supervised and co-ordinate its social and religious matters. www.asiabooks.gil.com.au /catalogue/indonesia_01.html   (2620 words)

Singabloodypore Singapore law dictates that anyone convicted of carrying more than 15 grams of heroin, 30 grams of cocaine, or 500 grams of marijuana is deemed a trafficker, and must be hanged. The problem seems to be one of the law in Singapore stating that the death penalty is mandatory to those caught trafficking in certain quantities of illegal drugs and that this law is somehow "entirely open, fair and transparent", according to due process of law, in Singapore. Singapore has spurned a United Nations bid to halt the execution of Australian drug trafficker Nguyen Tuong Van, accusing its special rapporteur of trying to mislead the public. singabloodypore.blogspot.com   (6967 words)

MIND RIOT!: January 2003 Four days ago, the Singapore Malay National Organisation (PKMS) issued a press statement demanding that the Government state its position on students wearing the tudung in national schools. Sure, it is paramount for Singapore to look like an advanced sophisticated Westernised economy in amongst the hotch potch of 3rd World child-prostitute states and pseudo Islamic hiding spots. CHICAGO (Reuters) - Denouncing the death penalty system as broken, the governor of Illinois commuted the sentences of all the state's death row inmates on Saturday, granting clemency to more than 150 people in a dramatic move likely to fuel the national debate about capital punishment. tvpoison.blogspot.com /2003_01_01_tvpoison_archive.html   (4848 words)

Islamic Studies Pathways Pakistan Government link-page to national, English-language papers: Dawn, The News, The Nation, and The Frontier Post. Their organisers are seeking more finance, in order to increase the resource base. This is a very useful overview of elements of Muslim history, produced in a user-friendly format, ideal for students and those seeking to locate information on key Muslim personalities and developers in areas of the sciences and the arts. www.lamp.ac.uk /cis/pathways/pathways.html   (4891 words)

AsiaSource: AsiaTODAY - A resource of the Asia Society The National Election Commission scheduled nominations for November 20 and elections for November 29, allowing for just 9 days of campaigning, a move that Malaysia's opposition has criticized as foul play. With recent economic gains to boast, bonuses promised to civil servants, and firm control of the nation's media, Malaysia's ruling coalition retained its two-thirds majority, but suffered important losses in two state governments, failed to reelect certain ministers, and faces an increasingly fractured electorate. This Singapore Straits Times special report includes numerous articles, a chronology, and short bios of the key players in the Anwar trial. www.asiasource.org /news/at_mp_02.cfm?newsid=5761   (767 words)

Muslimedia.com Already the ruling party, the United Malay National Organisation (UMNO), is under an unwritten ‘gag order’, members being barred from speaking against the US. With Malaysia’s neighbours, Singapore and Manila, now acting as the US’s new frontline allies in the Pacific, Mahathir thinks that the best way to beat them is to join them. Then the US demanded the extradition of Yazid Saari, a ISA detainee, who it said had aided French national Zacarias Moussaoui (whom the US now insists must be sentenced to death), and two of the 17 so-called hijackers who attacked New York and Washington. www.muslimedia.com /archives/sea02/my-protect.htm   (862 words)

Days Were The Those I'm trying to put together a collection of Singapore National Service Stories. Readers and contributors are reminded not to publish military-related information and photographs without first having clearance to do so. Drop me an email and I'll put you on the list of authors. singaporearmystories.blogspot.com   (96 words)

Faculty of Asian Studies She is a member of the ACT Chinese Teachers Association and is a member Organising Committee of the Australian National Chinese Eistedford. She is an honorary fellow of the Institute of Asia Pacific Education Development, Seoul National University and Departmental Associate in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU. During 1998 he was a visiting scholar at the National Language Research Institute (Kokuritsu Kokugo Kenkyujo) Tokyo, Japan, undertaking research on the development and loss of kakari-musubi in central and peripheral Japanese dialects. asia.anu.edu.au /asianstudies/staff/staff.html   (6136 words)

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