Catalina I of 205 Sqn undergoing servicing in their hangar at RAF Seletar One of the squadron's Short Singapore Mk III biplane flying boats can be seen in the right background, (Billion) Avg Singapore is considered a global financial hub with Singapore banks offering world-class corporate bank account facilities In the 2017 Global Financial Centres Index Singapore was ranked as having the third most competitive financial centre in the world after London and New York City (and alongside cities such as Hong Kong Tokyo San Francisco Chicago Sydney Boston and Toronto). These include multiple currencies internet banking telephone banking checking accounts savings accounts debit and credit cards fixed term deposits and wealth management services. According to the Human Rights Watch due to its role as a financial hub for the region Singapore has continually been criticised for reportedly hosting bank accounts containing ill-gotten gains of corrupt leaders and their associates including billions of dollars of Burma's state gas revenues hidden from national accounts. Singapore has attracted assets formerly held in Swiss banks for several reasons including new taxes imposed on Swiss accounts and a weakening of Swiss bank secrecy Credit Suisse the second largest Swiss bank moved its head of international private banking to Singapore in 2005.[citation needed], The same census also reports that about 74.1% of residents were of Chinese descent 13.4% of Malay descent 9.2% of Indian descent and 3.3% of other (including Eurasian) descent. Prior to 2010 each person could register as a member of only one race by default that of his or her father therefore mixed-race persons were solely grouped under their father's race in government censuses From 2010 onward people may register using a multi-racial classification in which they may choose one primary race and one secondary race but no more than two! . PISA also assesses students in innovative domains In 2012 and 2015 in addition to reading mathematics and science they were tested in collaborative problem solving In 2018 the additional innovative domain was global competence. From 1899 to 1913 holdings of countries' foreign exchange increased at an annual rate of 10.8% while holdings of gold increased at an annual rate of 6.3% between 1903 and 1913. Chilli crab In July 2017 Ignatius Ong Ming Cho CEO of Firefly a subsidiary of Malaysia Airlines (MAS) and a respected member in the aviation community had raised the issue of an ILS which has not been in installed in Seletar to the Singapore civil aviation authority in which Firefly believed that the lack of an ILS impacted on Seletar airport's aim to be "a proper commercial airport" as the ILS will improve aviation safety and enhance operational efficiency of descending aircraft into the airport during poor weather night landing or adverse visibility. Ignatius Ong had represented Malaysia Airlines in Kuala Lumpur and Beijing as a leading member of the responsive MAS crisis management team that dealt directly with traumatised relatives of those in the missing Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, In Malaya's first general elections in 1959 the Alliance coalition led by UMNO won 51.8% of the votes resulting in 74 out of 104 seats enough for an absolute two-thirds majority in Parliament which would not only allow them to form the government again but amend the constitution at will However for the Alliance the election was marred by internal strife when MCA leader Lim Chong Eu demanded his party be allowed to contest 40 of the 104 seats available When the Tunku rejected this many of Lim's supporters resigned and ran in the election as independents which cost the Alliance some seats! In recent years the goal of the education sector and in particular tertiary education has moved beyond simply building local manpower capabilities and is actively being developed by the Singapore government as a source of revenue The government's plan which was initiated in 2002 is to make Singapore a "Global Schoolhouse" attracting revenue-generating international students in 2002 the education sector accounted for 3.6% of Singapore's economy The government's aim was to grow this sector to 5% of Singapore's economy over the subsequent decade, Much of the content of the Tetrabiblos was collected from earlier sources; Ptolemy's achievement was to order his material in a systematic way showing how the subject could in his view be rationalized It is indeed presented as the second part of the study of astronomy of which the Almagest was the first concerned with the influences of the celestial bodies in the sublunary sphere Thus explanations of a sort are provided for the astrological effects of the planets based upon their combined effects of heating cooling moistening and drying, Monetary policy is referred to as being either expansionary or contractionary Expansionary policy occurs when a monetary authority uses its tools to stimulate the economy An expansionary policy maintains short-term interest rates at a lower than usual rate or increases the total supply of money in the economy more rapidly than usual It is traditionally used to try to combat unemployment in a recession by lowering interest rates in the hope that less expensive credit will entice businesses into expanding This increases aggregate demand (the overall demand for all goods and services in an economy) which boosts short-term growth as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) growth Expansionary monetary policy usually diminishes the value of the currency relative to other currencies (the exchange rate)! 36.9% Medisave Specialised 4 Siberian intervention Further heterodox monetary policy proposals include the idea of helicopter money whereby central banks would create money without assets as counterpart in their balance sheet The money created could be distributed directly to the population as a citizen's dividend This option has been increasingly discussed since March 2016 after the ECB's president Mario Draghi said he found the concept "very interesting".
Forcing mechanisms can be either "internal" or "external" Internal forcing mechanisms are natural processes within the climate system itself (e.g the thermohaline circulation) External forcing mechanisms can be either anthropogenic (e.g increased emissions of greenhouse gases and dust) or natural (e.g changes in solar output the earth's orbit volcano eruptions). On the spot market according to the 2016 Triennial Survey the most heavily traded bilateral currency pairs were:.
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